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Feature Request: Random play all albums

Version

1.8.0-beta1

Suggesting a new feature, or maybe just an extension to an existing one, depending on your perspective. One can currently create a Smart Playlist that will play all albums in random order ( https://sayonara-player.com/features/smart-playlists ) which is great. The problems with this are:

  • the UI to create that playlist requires specifying the number of albums that the playlist should contain
  • that means that every time the user's library contents change, this playlist becomes stale, and needs to be recreated
  • that process takes a long time with thousands of albums and is blocking. And even if it didn't, this is an inefficient use of users' time

It would be great if Sayonara offered a shortcut around this playlist-creation step, and just offered the user the ability to queue up all albums in random order. Or to create Smart Playlists of "All" albums, instead of an explicit number of them. MediaMonkey, for example, offers this handy feature.

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