Add an option for a truly random continuous playback (both for tracks and albums).
Being locked to only random songs/albums in a certain genre is quite limiting as a way to listen to music.
Having a truly random continuous playback of songs/albums helps discover obscure albums in big music libraries.
Why not just use the shuffle or mixes in the respective sections to achieve that ?
Here’s another alternative for the randomness…
Smart playlists
Use Play Count =0
This will go through your entire library without respect to anything - artist, album, genre, etc.
After you play through your entire library, then use
Play Count 1
Not played since X
This should solve your problem.
The goal of the continuous playback is to continue playing music after the song/album you chose has finished. The shuffle/mixes options in different sections of Symfonium doesn’t enable you to choose the first song/album you want to hear.
If you want an example of how something similar is done in another app, look at Poweramp on Android. They have implemented advanced repeat and shuffle options which allows random continuous playback of songs, albums and even more categories. For that to happen, you start playing the song/album/etc you want to hear and then enable the “Advance category” option for repeat and the “Suffle just categories” option for shuffle. When the song/album/etc you chose in the first place finishes playing, Poweramp will play another random song/album/etc.
Here is a link to the page explaining those features on Poweramp’s Knowledge Base : Poweramp Knowledge Base - Repeat and Shuffle
There is an option for Random tracks: Settings - Interface - Home page scroll down there is “Random tracks”.
in your link i dont see “random tracks” anywhere.
i am also looking for how to achieve what broskmoon4033 describes. also coming from poweramp, this shuffle mode is really great. i usually search for a single song to play by navigating through artists and albums until i find the right song. then afterwards, i just want to continue hearing any other song randomly chosen.
You can scroll in the app and see more options than in the docs. In the app you can see “random tracks”.
Doesn’t really help as finding the one song you want to play first is a pain when you have a big collection.
Are you in the correct thread? Your request was this:
From your response i think you want something like youtube music where it recommends a track and the following tracks are similar.
Or is your request for example a random album and after it is finished another random album etc. endlessly and not a “predefined” finite queue?
As stated in my answer to Tolriq :
So yes, this is the correct thread.