Issue with (limited) playlist shuffle in web browser

tdvtdv Member
in Bugs

When playing a playlist in the web browser, it seems to just load alphabetically from the playlist up to something like 50-100 tracks (first page). When shuffling it will then only pick from those tracks and not the full playlist. In the mobile version shuffling will pick from the whole playlist. However, in the web browser it seems that this function exists for the "Play Random Selection" button in the "Songs" tab, but it doesn't seem to be activated when pressing play on a playlist with shuffle enabled.

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  • gravelldgravelld Administrator

    Thanks - what do you mean by 'alphabetically' here - are you saying that only 50-100 tracks are picked to randomly play, and those are the first 50-100 from the first page of the playlist, alphabetically?

    Is the playlist you're talking about ordered alphabetically already?

  • tdvtdv Member

    Ah, yeah apologies for lack of general context. I have a dynamic playlist that filters out specific genres from my library (via iTunes). So the rest of the playlist is alphabetically sorted by artist.

    As such, only the first page (out of 43) of the playlist seems to be added to the queue, and from there the shuffle function only selects amongst those tracks which are in the queue.

  • gravelldgravelld Administrator

    Thanks! Ok - so could the problem be that it's only adding the first page?

    If you refresh the page, does the other pages appear? If you then play shuffled, does it shuffle 'across' pages?

  • tdvtdv Member

    I think I've found a viable solution/fix :)

    What I was doing was clicking on "Playlists" (https://play.asti.ga/playlists) then there clicking on the "Play" triangle for the given playlist I want to play. Whether or not I have shuffle enabled it will add the first page of the playlist to the queue.

    What solved it is going into the link of the specific playlist (https://play.asti.ga/playlist/%21All%20Songs%20-Hip-Hop) and there clicking on the "Play" triangle, which adds the full playlist to the queue and allows for the shuffle function to access the full playlist.

    I'm not sure why the two methods give different results, but at least I now have a way to do it that fulfills my needs!

  • gravelldgravelld Administrator
    edited May 6

    Sorry - you're correct. We've just fixed this on the playlists list for the next milestone.

  • tdvtdv Member

    Wonderful, thanks a bunch for the great support and application!

  • gravelldgravelld Administrator

    We should've fix the 100 track limit now.

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