Bugzilla – Bug 4724
Random Play
Last modified: 2009-01-29 11:29:28 UTC
Just upgraded the ReadyNAS NV to the latest 01/31/2007 version of SS 6.5.1 I was running the version of 6.5.1 Infrant supplied with RAIDiator v3.01c1-p6 released 13th December and it worked fine. With this latest version the Random Play - Songs selection creates a list of songs with all the Artists beginning with A, then B, then C etc. Only way I can get them approaching random is to switch on Shuffle. This reorganises the list. Selecting Random Play a second time switches off the Shuffle and the alphabetised list returns. Downgraded to the earlier version of 6.5.1 and everything returned to normal.
Forgot to add my music library is setup as A/artist name/album, B/artist name/album etc
I asked SS to prepare a Random Song mix looking 200 ahead and 5 behind and this is what I get: A-Ha - I've Been Losing You from The Singles: 1984-2004 A-Ha - Velvet from The Singles: 1984-2004 ABC - The Look of Love from Into The Eighties ABC - Tears Are Not Enough from The Lexicon Of Love Abba - I Have A Dream from Gold - Greatest Hits Abba - The Winner Takes It All from Gold - Greatest Hits Aerosmith - Back In The Saddle from Greatest Hits A3 - U Don't Dans 2 Tekno Anymore from Exile On Coldharbour Lane Albert Collins - Honey hush from Natural Blues - Disk 1 of 2 Ana Popovich - Belly Button Window from Blue Haze - Songs Of Jimi Hendrix Annie Lennox - Little Bird from Diva B.B. King - You Shook Me (duet with John Lee Hooker) from Blues Summit Barry White - I'm Gonna Love You Just A Little More, Baby from All-time Greatest Hits Baz Luhrmann - a Mulcahy / Sparkling Diamond Caroline O'Connor, Natalie Mendoza & Lar from Moulin Rouge Billie Holiday - One, Two, Button Your Shoe from All Of Me(FLAC)(oan) Billie Holiday - Body And Soul from Body & Soul Billie Holiday - Guilty from Classic Tracks Blind Lemon Jefferson - Blind Lemon's Penitentiary Blues from Blind Lemon Jefferson Blondie - Hanging On The Telephone from Atomic Blues Brothers - Flip, Flop & Fly from Best Of The Blues Brothers Bob Seger and the Silver Bullit Band - Ship of Fools from Night Moves Bobby Womack - Doing It My Way from Lookin' For A Love (The Best Of Bobby Womack) Bonnie Rait - All At Once from Luck Of The Draw Brian Wilson - Let's Go Away For Awhile from Pet Sounds Live Bryan Adams - (Everything I Do) I Do It For You from The Best Of Me Buddy Guy - Watch Yourself from I Was Walking Through The Woods Buddy Holly - Words Of Love from Buddy Holly Buddy Holly - It's Not My Fault from For The First Time Anywhere Bunny Paul - Such A Night from It's Only Rock 'n' Roll Carole King - Corazón from Natural Woman: The Very Best of Carole King Charlie Watts - Charlie Watts / I#ve Got A Crush On You from Long Ago And Far Away Cher - Save Up All Your Tears from Cher's Greatest Hits: 1965-1992 Chicago - Look Away from The Chicago Story Chicago - Street Player from The Chicago Story Chris Rea - Bless Them All from On The Beach Chris Rea - On The Beach from The Best of Chris Rea - New Light Through Old Windows Chris Rea - Stainsby Girls from Best of Christine Ohlman - All Down the Line from Exile On Blues Street Chuck Berry - Almost Grown from American Graffiti Chuck Berry - Down The Road A Piece from Natural Blues Album, The : Disk 2 of 2 Cliff Richard - Dynamite from The Singles Collection Bessie Jackson - Barbecue Bess from Copulatin' Blues David Bowie - Hallo Spaceboy (Pet Shop Boys Remix) from Best Of Bowie David Bowie - Sound And Vision from Best Of Bowie David Bowie - The Man Who Sold The World from Best Of Bowie David Gilmour - The Blue: from On An Island Del Shannon - Hey Little Girl from Greatest Hits Diana Ross and the Supremes - Baby Love from Simply The Best Classic Soul Dion - You Showed Me What Love Is from Born To Be With You / Streetheart Dion - You're The One from Bronx In Blue 1 2 3 4 5 Setting 20 ahead sort of hides the problem but you can still see the alphabetic order.
I think this is a bug with the new faster way of generating the random list. Each group of items will be added in the order which the perl hash algorithm stores them.
Please try tomorrow's nightly or svn after change 11332 this should add the random items to the playlist in a more random order.
Just downloaded the Infrant 6.5.1.2 which includes the fix and the problem is still there.
If you set the upcoming songs to a lower number and them press "fwd" on the remote to force new sets of random tracks to be added, are these random between different sets of tracks - its just that each set is ordered? If so I'd to see what code is included in the intrant update you are running...
Ok I confirmed with Infrant they have produced an add-on that includes the revised code 11332 and re-installed. With Random Mix set to 20 songs ahead I get this: Buddy Guy - Country Man from Feels Like Rain David Gilmour - Castellorison from On An Island Dean Martin - Love (Your Spell Is Everywhere) from Dino: Italian Love Songs / Cha Cha De Amor Frank Sinatra - I've Got A Crush On You from The Capitol Years Wham! - Everything She Wants (Remix) from Twenty Five Junior Wells - (I Can't Get No) Satisfaction (feat. Bob Margolin) from Paint It Blue: Songs of the Rolling Stones Manic Street Preachers - My Little Empire from This Is MyTruth Tell Me Yours Mel Torme - Nightingale sang in Berkeley Square from The Ultimate Mel Torme Paul Weller - The Weaver from Modern Classics Prince - Alphabet St. from The Very Best Of Prince Red Hot Chili Peppers - Wet Sand from Stadium Arcadium Squeeze - Another Nail In My Heart from Greatest Hits Stevie Wonder - Higher Ground from The Definitive Collection Talking Heads - Once In A Lifetime from DriveTime Beach Boys - 'Til I Die from Good Vibrations: Thirty Years Of The Beach Boys The Beatles - Girl from Rubber Soul The Johnny Otis Show - What Else can I do from with Shuggie Otis Traveling Wilburys - Inside Out from Vol. 3 Yazoo - Happy People from You and Me Both The two songs out of alphabetical order are from Wham (filed under George Michael) and Beach Boys (filed under The Beach Boys). Setting the list to 200 songs ahead gives results similar to what I reported before.
Returning to the older (13 Dec) Infrant 6.5.1 I get this: Bonnie Raitt - Burning down the house from Road Tested Otis Redding - That's How Strong My Love Is from Sings Soul Ballads Frankie Valli & The 4 Seasons - Stay from 25th Anniversary Collection [Disc 1 of 3] Elvis Presley - The Girl Of My Best Friend from Elvis Is Back! Billie Holiday - Comes Love from Body & Soul Luther Allison - Take My Love from Bad News Is Coming Kate Bush - Hounds of Love from The Whole Story Paul Weller - Brushed from Modern Classics George blackwell - Mr loser from Northern Soul Satisfaction Blues Brothers - Going Back To Miami from Best Of The Blues Brothers John Lee Hooker - (Twist Ain't Nothin') But The Old Time Shimmy from Simply the truth Muddy Waters - Country Boy from Folksinger The Righteous Brothers - He from Unchained Melody Del Shannon - Two Kinds of Teardrops from Greatest Hits Cream - Four Until Late from CD 1 - In The Studio Squeeze - Labelled With Love from Greatest Hits Marilyn Monroe - She Acts Like A Woman Should from The Essentials Bruce Hornsby - Set Me In Motion from Greatest Radio Hits Spaniels - Bounce from Jumping and Doowopping Phil Collins - Separate Lives from Phil Collins - Hits Tom Rush - Panama Limited from The Very Best of Tom Rush: No Regrets I did notice that after creating the initial list alphabetically 6.5.1.2 then started to add songs at random. So after Yazoo it gave me Kate Bush, Johnny Winter, George Harrison etc. Maybe the problem is with creating the initial list?
It appears to be working for me on standard linux. Given that you do not have access to the perl, could you ask Infrant to add the following patch and post what it adds to the log when starting a random mix: --- Plugins/RandomPlay/Plugin.pm (revision 11355) +++ Plugins/RandomPlay/Plugin.pm (working copy) @@ -90,7 +90,12 @@ for (my $i = 0; $i < $limit && @allIds; ++$i) { - push @idList, (splice @allIds, rand @allIds, 1); + my $rand = rand @allIds; + my $total = scalar @allIds; + + msg("selecting item $rand of $total\n"); + + push @idList, (splice @allIds, $rand, 1); } } else {
Hi I got Infrant to give me the add-on as requested. The log file shows: 2007-02-13 17:50:38.8760 selecting item 9362.48598695199 of 10482 2007-02-13 17:50:38.8987 selecting item 5282.75889166614 of 10481 2007-02-13 17:50:38.9003 selecting item 4231.78313155839 of 10480 2007-02-13 17:50:38.9019 selecting item 1266.03012950558 of 10479 2007-02-13 17:50:38.9033 selecting item 2853.90705336104 of 10478 2007-02-13 17:50:38.9048 selecting item 6816.45093053596 of 10477 2007-02-13 17:50:38.9063 selecting item 3916.19047383186 of 10476 2007-02-13 17:50:38.9079 selecting item 4228.6598704054 of 10475 2007-02-13 17:50:38.9096 selecting item 1495.61756136765 of 10474 2007-02-13 17:50:38.9110 selecting item 6894.54876387891 of 10473 2007-02-13 17:50:38.9126 selecting item 4576.3427425293 of 10472 2007-02-13 17:50:38.9142 selecting item 1744.31604092716 of 10471 2007-02-13 17:50:38.9157 selecting item 6310.59560247803 of 10470 2007-02-13 17:50:38.9173 selecting item 6435.58299413055 of 10469 2007-02-13 17:50:38.9189 selecting item 3626.72885656314 of 10468 2007-02-13 17:50:38.9205 selecting item 5026.34391116943 of 10467 2007-02-13 17:50:38.9223 selecting item 5167.66996023497 of 10466 2007-02-13 17:50:38.9240 selecting item 9673.09452685965 of 10465 2007-02-13 17:50:38.9255 selecting item 2329.32861632651 of 10464 2007-02-13 17:50:38.9270 selecting item 8494.77484886607 of 10463 2007-02-13 17:50:54.9637 selecting item 9592.71007339738 of 10481 The Playlist shows: Cat Power - Lived in Bars from The Greatest Cliff Richard - It's All In The Game from The Singles Collection David Bowie - Hallo Spaceboy (Pet Shop Boys Remix) from Best Of Bowie Duran Duran - New Moon on Monday from Greatest Fats Waller - Ain't Misbehavin' from That's Jazz Andres Sisters - I'll Be With You In Apple Blossom Time from 50's Here`s to the Ladies James Taylor - Country Road from Greatest Hits (FLAC) (oan) John Caffert & The Beaver Brown Band - Maryia from Eddie & The Cruisers II John Caffert & The Beaver Brown Band - NYC Song from Eddie & The Cruisers II Johnny Winter - 01-Johnny B. Goode (Live) from A Rock n' Roll Collection Labelle - Lady Marmelade from Disco Fever Little Richard - Ready Teddy from 18 Greatest Hits Lou Rawls - One Life To Live from Groovy People -The Best Of Lou Rawls Paul Weller - The Long Hot Summer from Hit Parade Pet Shop Boys - You Only Tell Me You Love Me When You're Drunk from PopArt: The Hits 1985-2003 - Disc 2 of 2 Red Hot Chili Peppers - Snow (Hey Oh) from Stadium Arcadium Rihanna - Pon De Replay Remix from Music Of The Sun The Beach Boys - Airplane from Good Vibrations: Thirty Years Of The Beach Boys The Rolling Stones - Sweet Virginia from Stripped Thompson Twins - Perfect Game from Singles Collection The Who - Long Live Rock from The Ultimate Collection Trust t
Ok thats the same as for me. Looks like the next bit of code may be less than random. Watch this space...
Please try 6.5.1 change 11446 or tomorrow's nightly. This should improve randomness of tracks which are added. Previously we selected a group of tracks randomly, but then performed some functions which resulting in each selection being approximately ordered by the track id. This change attempts to avoid this.
Happy to report that Random Mix is now working correctly. Many thanks.
marking as fixed, please reopen if issues remain.