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Hi, thanks for your great work on this. I was wondering if there is any way now or if it is planned to have a way to add something like 100 random files to the playlist?

I have done this in bash with something like

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shuf -n25 $SONGS | $MPC -q add

I have made a little script which breaks the library into genres (based on folder structure) so you can do 100 random rock songs etc.

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#!/bin/sh
IFS='
'

read -p "You must run mpc update if you want the latest changes to work - CTRL-C now and do that if you need to, otherwise hit enter" NOTHING

GENREDIR="genres"
SONGSFILE="songs.txt"

mpc listall > $SONGSFILE

if [ ! -d $GENREDIR ]; then
        mkdir $GENREDIR
fi

for i in $( cat $SONGSFILE | sed 's#/.*##g' | uniq ); do
        touch "$GENREDIR/$i"
done

for i in $( ls $GENREDIR | sed 's/_/ /g' ); do
        sed -n "/$i//p" $SONGSFILE > "$GENREDIR/$i.1"
        mpc search genre "$i" >> "$GENREDIR/$i.1"
        uniq "$GENREDIR/$i.1" "$GENREDIR/$i"
done

rm $GENREDIR/*.1
exit

this is probably not very useful to you, just for ideas.

hmm I should have put this in feature requests I suppose. Sorry, feel free to move

Hi ejer, don't worry. We were already thinking on a smart way to have a true random playback through the entire database To me it's an essential feature, so we are going to manage it via RuneUI as soon as possible.

Essential feature for me too (although I can make it happen from the backend I am sure - just installed today). The problem is my DB has songs from classical to death metal, so random per genre is a great feature as well. Harder to implement though, it depends on good (standardized) folder structure or genre ID3 tags.

I'm in your same situation Random per genre could be a further step of development, but as you say it depends on a good library organization by the user.