Button to play random tracks of one constant random genre

Feature requests
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Feature description:

Hi,

Maybe there’s a way to do that? But I didn’t manage to find how. The mix buttons, for a mix of albums, mix of a decade, or a mix of tracks are great (I would prefer a complete random than an intelligent mix, but it’s a personal preference and it doesn’t matter).

I would really like a button that would enqueue and play XXX tracks of the same genre, picked randomly inside that random genre. I created a theme for foobar2000, called eole, I emplemented this function in it, and it’s the function I use the most.

Thanks for reading! Have a great day

Problem solved:

I know that features requests related to playing randomly tracks in a specific way are frequent, and every one have his own personal preference about that. So while I’m hoping that my way will get implemented, I understand that it may be too specific about myself. Maybe the solution would be to create a interface in order to create its own mix button, like the interface to create smart playlist? Much more work, I guess.

Brought benefits:

Re-discover our library genre by genre.

Other application solutions:

EOLE for foobar2000 have this function. The ability to play randomly tracks from a random genre, or to pick a specific genre, and then play randomly tracks from this genre: GitHub - Ottodix/Eole-foobar-theme: Eole blows gently into your ear his nicest melodies.

I guess it’s pointless to install this theme just to try it though, there isn’t anything very special about the implementation UI. Except maybe that with EOLE, when you play randomly tracks/albums/artists/genre/a specific genre, a button appears to launch again the process. You can then press this button until it picks something that you really like.

Additional description and context:

Screenshots / Mockup:

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Create smart playlists for your needs and pin them to home or favorite them it will do just that.

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Can you explain me how please? I’ve found how to create a smart playlist containing tracks where the genre tag is there. Or where the genre tag is specifically “Rock” for example. But I can’t find the rules to let Symfonium pick one genre, randomly and populate the playlist only with tracks of this genre.

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Use a smart playlists that take 1 song random then enable smart queue with genre source.

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Yep, it does work, thanks. It’s not as straightforward as I would like though. I’m using the MIX buttons when I don’t want to spend time selecting a music. Going to work, I just have to open Symfonium and press one big button. Here it would be almost as fast if I’m ok to keep smart queue always on. But I’m not, most of the time I prefer to stop playing at the end of an album, and I know that won’t enable/disable this thing daily.

So I’ll better use the existing MIX buttons then.

Thanks for the help :slight_smile:

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You can use profiles that contain the smart queue settings and all app profile to switch between modes.

You can use the API to automate that and directly start the playlist too via a button on tasker.

Many possibilities.

Your need is way too specific and extending to all cases nearly impossible.

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thanks, have a great wkend