What is Instant mix?

[bigeyez 10]

Hi

​Can someone explain me how the instant mix works? It is a bit weird that instant mix does not show up in the menu and I have to dial down to an album to instant mix but then it grabs other albums artists etc. So I really want to understand how the instant mix and shuffle works in this respect.

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​I wish there was a global button that can let me mix and shuffle without going to albums or songs. Like a global item that randomizes based on the current pane view.

[ebr 16169]

Shuffle: Take all the items contained within the item I just requested to shuffle, randomly sort them and play them.

 

Instant Mix: Take the characteristics of the item I selected and then search my entire library for items with the same characteristics, randomly sort them and play them.

 

Think of Instant Mix like a Pandora station that only uses your content.

[bigeyez 10]

ebr thank you. I never used Pandora so I am not familiar with the feature but yur explanation make sense now.

[bigeyez 10]

On the otherhand how do I shuffle my whole library and play the shuffled list?

[Happy2Play 9780]

On the otherhand how do I shuffle my whole library and play the shuffled list?

 

Right click on your Library on the Home Screen and select Shuffle.

[bigeyez 10]

@@Happy2Play thanks for the reply.

 

I kind of tried that before too and I tried it now as well. There is no shuffle in the menu. There are things like add to collection, playlist, mark as played etc. There is not even a "play selected" kind of thing.

Edited August 28, 2017 by bigeyez

[Happy2Play 9780]

@@Happy2Play thanks for the reply.

 

I kind of tried that before too and I tried it now as well. There is no shuffle in the menu. There are things like add to collection, playlist, mark as played etc. There is not even a "play selected" kind of thing.

 

Here is what I get when I right click on my Music Library.

 

[bigeyez 10]

@@Happy2Play
I do not get a special "right click" menu. What I get is a selection mode where I can make selection and there  is a triple dot on the right top conrner that has some menu items. I am using Chrome on Linux.

​I can get a menu similar to yours with long click (which gives a tipple dot click item), and has pretty much the same menu except that I do not have shuffle but I have "share, sync" additionally. No instant mix either there.

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Edited August 28, 2017 by bigeyez

[Happy2Play 9780]

I have those options disabled.  Not sure why shuffle doesn't appear for you though.

 

@@Luke

Any thoughts on why shuffle would not appear?

[bigeyez 10]

This is very curious.

[bigeyez 10]

I have shuffle listed only when I select an album, which is almost useless, I mean shuffling the very same album does not do much good

[ebr 16169]

I have shuffle listed only when I select an album, which is almost useless, I mean shuffling the very same album does not do much good

 

Not sure why you think that is useless?

 

That is a way to play all the songs from that album in a random order so it will be different each time...

[bigeyez 10]

​Well sure, kind of useful but I like to shufle multiple albums/artists and I cant seem to find a way to do that in Emby atm

[Luke 42077]

i agree we need a way to shuffle and instant mix the entire library. it's something we can look at for a future update. thanks !

[heciruam 30]

Is there a way to exclude other audio libraries?

[Luke 42077]

@@heciruam what do you mean exactly?

[heciruam 30]

Well when I click on instant click in my music library, I will also get a lot of audiobooks tracks from my audiobook library.

 

My question is if I can tell Emby to only use the music library when I use "instant mix".

Edited October 29, 2017 by heciruam

[Luke 42077]

Have you setup your audio books library using a content type of books?

[heciruam 30]

No I set it up as music. I thought books were e books or something else. So I have to set it up as books?

[Luke 42077]

Books covers both ebooks and audio books.

 

To answer the question - yes instant mix should probably be limited to the library you started in, but for an immediate workaround you could use the books content type.

[heciruam 30]

Ok I will try it that way. Thanks for the tip.

[bigeyez 10]

​It looks like there is a  nice shuffle and play buttons at the top of my album view in the beta. I am guessing you guyz implemented this recently?

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i agree we need a way to shuffle and instant mix the entire library. it's something we can look at for a future update. thanks !

[Luke 42077]

Yes.

[bigeyez 10]

Awesome addition. Thanks for implementing it.

 

Quick question, is the shuffle operating on the whole of the current library or on the currently open album page? I have a rather large library so hard to understand exactly how it pull it together.

Edited November 9, 2017 by bigeyez

[Happy2Play 9780]

Awesome addition. Thanks for implementing it.

 

Quick question, is the shuffle operating on the whole of the current library or on the currently open album page? I have a rather large library so hard to understand exactly how it pull it together.

 

I believe it depends on what level you are selecting shuffle.