Random album chooses multiple albums

[fcimeson 11]

The random album feature doesn't seem to work properly.

• Consider an artist with two albums A and B
• When emby chooses this artist, instead of choosing to play A or B, it instead plays both A and B with the tracks randomized
• This happens from the music library in the Albums tab

Example from Emby

• I've attached an example screen shot where you can see multiple album covers in the play list.
• The playlist was generated from the shuffle button while on the Albums tab

[ebr 16185]

Hi.  That is how the shuffle feature is designed.  It shuffles the actual media, not the containers.

[fcimeson 11]

So it shuffles by artist for the Albums and Artist tab but then it shuffles by song for Songs tab?

[Luke 42080]

Everything gets shuffled. In other words, it's not going to only shuffle the artists but then keep the tracks within each artist in some specific order.

[fcimeson 11]

Seems like cause for a feature request:

• On the Albums tab, shuffle albums (keep album song order)
• On the Artist tab, shuffle by artist (randomize artist songs... unclear what is desirable here).

[user24 316]

I was curious about this, as I shuffle music a lot (though mainly from different starting points). From some brief experimenting, yes, I think there is some 'weirdness' happening with the various random shuffle modes now:

• Shuffle all, from the Songs tab, appears to be working as expected.
• Shuffle all from the Albums tab, returns some strange results. Previously (Emby 4.7.x) it would return a random order of whole albums, as best as I recall. Now (Emby 4.8.5.0) it starts with a random order of whole albums, but then changes to a mix of two albums only, then completely random songs, then back to two albums mixed, then one album all together.....
• Shuffle all, from the Album Artists tab, also returns weird results, similar to the Albums shuffle all above.

I do not think this is 'normal' at all (it doesn't greatly concern me though as I don't use the Album shuffle all mode greatly). If I have time a bit later on, I may experiment some more and provide more exact detailed examples with screenshots.

In the meantime, it may be worth Emby having a quick look to see if Shuffle is actually working correctly across the different tabs... it should be easy to replicate what I have described...

Edited April 27, 2024 by user24

[T3Knical5urg32 3]

In find some odd non-random selection of "albums" in the albums tab I searched this and also concur that this is a strange way to shuffle albums and I would second fcimson's feature request.

[Luke 42080]

HI, we'll take a look at this. Thanks for reporting.

[hoohooboo 0]

On 26/04/2024 at 21:21, fcimeson said:

Seems like cause for a feature request:

• On the Albums tab, shuffle albums (keep album song order)
• On the Artist tab, shuffle by artist (randomize artist songs... unclear what is desirable here).

Shuffling of full albums would be great.  Did you create a feature request?