extra synch setting - Whole albums

[mec11]

I have my entire collection set up by albums (very few pieces of loose music) and would like an option when synching a random subset to do it by full albums rather than individual songs.


FYI I am a lifetime registered user... not sure that it matters.

[Al_G]

I have my entire collection set up by albums (very few pieces of loose music) and would like an option when synching a random subset to do it by full albums rather than individual songs.

You should be able to do this with Autoplaylists. For this example, assume you want 4 GB worth of random albums: Make a new autoplaylist, go to the advanced tab, leave the 'criteria' selection blank, check 'show at most' and enter 4000 megabytes, set 'sort option' to 'Random Album'. Each time you click on this playlist (or sync it with your mp3 player) you will get 4 GB of full albums, except for one which will be a partial album to fill out the size.

You could enter a value in the 'criteria' selection if you want to filter to specific genres, etc.

[mec11]

Thanks for the reply! Tried your idea and am now half way there. I filtered out my non rotational music and get 53gb of random albums for my IPOD... unfortuatly I can not figure out how to get a different random set.

... once it has created that list it does not appear to change at all each time I click on it or navagate back to it. Any ideas? Do I need to create one each time?

[Lowlander]

Did you do this part:

check 'show at most' and enter 4000 megabytes

[mec11]

Did you do this part:

check 'show at most' and enter 4000 megabytes

I actually have it checked at 53000 megabytes as I have a '60'gb IPOD with about 82gb of music that this playlist would be pulling from. The issue is that the paylist does not change once created, which may be its design but not what I gathered from the previous poster.

[Lowlander]

Uncheck the size limitation and check how many files are selected. If this is significantly more than 53GB you should experience random tracks. Make sure you recheck the size limitation afterwards.

The problem might be that it's hard to see randomness on such a large selection. Maybe it's doing random tracks. You could try to evaluate the total time between different views of the list. If that changes you have a random list.

[mec11]

Uncheck the size limitation and check how many files are selected. If this is significantly more than 53GB you should experience random tracks. Make sure you recheck the size limitation afterwards.

The problem might be that it's hard to see randomness on such a large selection. Maybe it's doing random tracks. You could try to evaluate the total time between different views of the list. If that changes you have a random list.

Part of my criteria is that I have secified the location as I have tracks in my library that I do not want in rotation on my IPOD. I have confirmed it is pulling from the correct group.

One of the ways I know it is not random each time is that it only pulls one album and the same one from the Smashing Pumpkins when there is 15+ that I have for them.

I'll keep tinkering. Thanks for all the ideas though... keep em comin'

[Lowlander]

Then you might have stumbled upon a bug. I advice to keep trying to see if it's a mistake on your side or a bug in MediaMonkey.