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Is there any easy way to shuffle the whole library without creating a giant playlist? Every time I want to shuffle my whole library, I navigate to the Music Folder on my NAS and hit play, then enable shuffle. This method unfortunately locks things up as I have a decent sized library and it is a lot of data to add to a playlist at once.
Thanks in advance!
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have you tried turning on auto-shuffle in settings ?
M - Configure - Audio - Auto-Shuffle on
Play Music (1 Track in Playlist)
Hit the random button
When the last song in the Playlist has finished playing, Auto-shuffle adds two randomly selected songs from the music library to the end of the Playlist then repeats the process. This creates a continuous stream of music without growing the Playlist and having two tracks enables MPD Crossfade to be used. NOTE: Auto-shuffle replaces MPD random play as the method for the 'Random' button.
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I have had the same issue for several versions of moOde. According to Tim (moOde developer) it is a resource issue. My music folder is on a synology DS415 play and there are over 2,600 albums which takes a significant to update. I have had tried this feature on a much smaller music folder also on the NAS and it worked just fine. Thanks
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It doesn't matter what's already in the playlist. To activate Auto-shuffle random play do the following:
1. Menu, Audio config
2. Turn Auto-shuffle ON
3. Return to Playback panel
4. Stop playback
5. Click the Random button underneath the volume knob
2 tracks should be automatically added to the playlist and the first of the two tracks should start playing.
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08-14-2020, 07:35 PM
(This post was last modified: 08-14-2020, 07:35 PM by Lttlwing16.)
I can report back this is exactly what was happening. First, I thought the auto-shuffle would happen on it's own, without pressing any buttons. Second, I was pressing the wrong button to activate the auto-shuffle button. Mainly because I thought that was just the shuffle playlist button, and wouldn't add any new music. So thanks again for the clarification.