Node 2i random playlist
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I have 4000+ FLAC files on my NAS network storage and often I just want to play a random playlist out of these songs via my Node 2i. Then I click on “Library” and “Directories” (I hope it’s the correct English terms, because I use the German version of the App), click on the 3 dots saying “Add all songs to the waiting queue”. Then I will see a playlist with all of my songs in the alphabetical order of all directories and it starts playing the first song (which is always 10cc / Dreadlock Holiday). As next step I press the “random” symbol below the playlist, and then the sequence of songs (after the first one) is mixed up.
I tried to save this waiting queue as a playlist, but when I recall this entry it’s just showing “Empty waiting queue”. It takes more than a minute (with the blue waiting circle stopped) till a list with the songs appears – but each time in the same sequence.
With the Teufel Connector (a network bridge I used before) there was a fixed menu entry under “playlists / random mix” called “My music – all songs” which immediately started a 200 song random playlist out of my complete music library. Is there any function similar to that in the Node 2i App?
If not - than it would be a feature request.
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Hi Diethard
There is an easier way to do this.
Clear your Play Queue. In Library, select Songs, tap the first song in the playlist and this will autofill the entire queue. Shuffle THAT and Save THAT.
https://support.bluos.net/hc/en-us/articles/360000204487
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Thanks, Tony, for you reply. The result is - just similar to my approach - a (once) shuffled and (after that) stored (and so fixed) playlist. Each time I recall it, it will always play the same songs in the same sequence (because it is just a stored playlist).
But that was not the idea. I was looking for a (possibly one click) function that plays a random sequence from all songs of my library. And of course a different selection/sequence each time I call up that function.
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If you want a different order, you will have to shuffle every time. Sorry, it's two clicks.
Thanks for the feedback though, it has been passed along for future consideration.
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Not quite, Tony. I stored that random playlist. As I described in my first post, it takes +30sec till the playlist appears on screen when you call it up again. The revolving marker will stop during half of that time. I have no idea what the app or the node is doing during that time, maybe checking each song if it is still available in the library?
It's much faster to generate a new playlist using "Library" / "Directories" / "3 Points" / "Add all songs to the queue" (this works within a second or two, despite there are 4000+ songs in many directories). As expected, you get the same sequence of songs and it always starts playing with the same song, so you need to shuffle and select the second song.
So all in all it's 5 or 6 clicks - if it would have been 2 I would not ask for a change.
With your suggestion I found it was 7 clicks in the end plus that 30 second "break" in between.
With Teufel connector it was 2 clicks - Select Playlists and then the predefined "Random" Playlist. I think the "Predefined Playlist" solution would be fine for the Node too.
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Hello Diethard,
welcome to reality :-(
This feature is requested since years, unfortunately nothing really happens, I´m sorry to say. I also used Teufels Raumfeld before but dismissed it because of the problems with flac they had. But the app was much better, not only the randomize function, but also the support of multiple genre tags. BluOS doesn´t support that either.
@Tony: When you advice to select songs and "this will autofill the entire queue" you should also tell your customers the entire thruth: The autofill function is too limited! If I follow your advice starting with my first entry - a song title starting with a number - I don´t even get a song title starting with the letter "a"! The play queue holds about 180 entries, and shuffling that is not that what anyone outside bluesound expects. Thats not even a bad joke.
Regards, Juergen
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OK, to make it easy: we have a serious feature request for the app. It is to have a one or two click function that generates a new random playlist out of the whole library. In my eyes, the best solution would be just an additional submenu item below "library" ("Random playlist").
@Juergen: I checked your remarks regarding the limitations of the autofill function and cannot affirm it. On my tablet and mobile the autofill function adds really all (4000+) songs to the playlist.
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Hi Juergen
There is no limitation on Autofill so something is going wrong in your case. Please select Help, Send Support Request so we may see the log file and take a closer look.
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Does having to use 2 clicks instead of one that big of a deal?
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@Gregory: 10 days ago I wrote "So all in all it's 5 or 6 clicks - if it would have been 2 I would not ask for a change."
If there is a 2 or 3 click solution, please show me.
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Hi everyone,
I'm a new purchaser of a bluesound system and I'm very happy of it.
However, I'm a bit frustrated to not find the feature of launching random music on my personal library.
I found this discussion about it but no news since 3 years. Is there any update on that feature ? Is it available and I don't know how it works or is it still something missing ?
thank you for your feeback
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Hi Vincent,
the feature is available but not too obvious. I do it the following way:
I open the library, navigate to the folder structure, klick on the arrow on the right side and choose "Alle Titel zur Warteschlange hinzufügen" which reads in english something like "Add all titles to the queue". Then you can use the shuffle-icon. This also works with the other views as well, like titles, artists and so on. But I prefer the folder view. Hope this helps.
Regards, Juergen
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Hello Juergen,
thanks a lot for this tip.
It will help a lot to have and use this feature that I'm using massively (it is a way to have his own radio).
Best regards
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