Issue with (limited) playlist shuffle in web browser
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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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?
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.
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?
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!
Sorry - you're correct. We've just fixed this on the playlists list for the next milestone.
Wonderful, thanks a bunch for the great support and application!
We should've fix the 100 track limit now.
I have the same problem with playing playlist in shuffling mode. It plays songs from the first page of play list only. Any solution?
Can you confirm the exact buttons/links you press @Olex ?
Play (triangle) button on playlist image on playlists page
Oh - this should definitely work. Are you saying it stops playing when the last track on the first page of the play queue completes?
Oh, ok, I think I understand your point now. The original issue here was that only the first 100 tracks were added to the queue. But now we add all the tracks, this problem has surfaced.
In the Astiga web app currently, shuffle acts as a "mode" for the playlist. The next track jumps around the play queue. But right now, it only picks from the first page. I've added a ticket to address this.
We should also consider a shuffle "action" in future, where adding tracks for an entity (playlist, album, genre or whatever) adds the tracks in a random order. Useful thoughts here, for future consideration.
Yes that`s what i mean. I have playlist which contains about 2K songs and 20 pages. so it is a bit boring when it plays firs page only :)
btw is it correct that some songs are played too often but other ones are not played at all during shuffle mode?
If you're in shuffle mode, each time the play advances to the next track we pick it based on a random number between 1 and
the playlist lengthpage 1 length. The trouble with random numbers is they often don't feel very random 😉 . I guess this effect will be lessened once the paging issue is fixed.This should now be deployed. Let us know if it works for you!