Bugzilla – Bug 17932
Random Mix playback "confuses" shuffle mode
Last modified: 2012-05-02 08:53:07 UTC
I didn't know exactly where to report this so sorry if it is in the wrong place. I have "shuffle by song" mode enabled on my Touch. If I play a Random Mix of a genre and then play one of my playlists it shows that "shuffle by song" mode is still enabled but that is not the case. I can see this by looking at the the Now Playing list which shows the songs in the playlist in "unshuffled" order. The only way to fix this is to toggle shuffle off and then back on which then shows the Now Playing list in a shuffled order as expected.
What seems to happen now with v7.7.2 is that the shuffle mode is in an "unsettable" state until I restart LMS. If I play a playlist after Random Mix and then try to set the shuffle mode it won't let me set it and it randomly jumps two places to "Off" and other strange behavior when I try to set shuffle in the menu.
I can confirm that this happens on my Radio the first time I play a playlist after Random Mix have been used. However, if I hit play on the playlist a second time it seems to be played in random order according to the shuffle indicator on the screen.
It turns out this seems to be related to the "Continuous" mode for Random Mix. If disabled: After playing a Random Mix I can't successfully set the shuffle mode until I reset/restart LMS. If enabled: After a Random Mix, the first play of a playlist is not shuffled but either playing it again or toggling the shuffle during playback will cause it to be shuffled appropriately.