Bugzilla – Bug 5876
Random play
Last modified: 2007-10-21 11:49:16 UTC
I am not sure just what random play is supposed to add to the current playlist but it sure is inconsistent randomplay albums adds all of one album playlist Seems okay randomplay tracks adds some number of tracks to the current play list Seems okay randomplay artists adds nothing to the playlist and appears to do nothing as if it was not recognized randomplay year adds the whole library to the current playlist I am not sure what it is trying to do
OK, so for "randomplay artists", the CLI doc in 6.5 contains a mistake: the correct term is "contributors" instead of "artists", i.e. "randomplay contributors" (fixed in 13991, if you use nightlies). For year, the code that handles it for the CLI is the same than the code that handles it for the web interface so you should see the same behaviour using the web GUI (i.e. adding all the library). This would indicate a bug of the ramdomplay code (and not of the CLI). I cannot replicate that here with 7.0. Let us know.
Thanks. That fixed "Artists" and yes Year acts the same way from the browser. I am going to have someone who has all his files tagged with year to see if it does the same thing, or just when there are no year tags. In any event I understand that the year issue is a random mix issue and not a CLI issue.