Shuffle albums about cog HOT 12 CLOSED

@kode54 Thanks for the implementation. The shuffle part works, however, it doesn't get properly activated.

If "Shuffle Albums" is disabled when Cog is launched with a couple of albums loaded into the playlist, and we activate the option, it skips to a random album right after the first album song finishes, instead of completing the album.

Update: Seems to be fixed by 2ad9584.

If "Shuffle Albums" is already enabled when Cog is launched with a couple of albums loaded into the playlist, the shuffle doesn't get activated at all and it just plays the albums in order. However, within the same session, if we deactivate and reactivate the option, the shuffle works as intended.

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To test it, just use the "Next Track" shortcut key, instead of having to wait for full song playback.

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This is already known. It doesn't even build the shuffle playlist until you activate shuffle, and it doesn't consider any tracks that were already queued or playing when creating the shuffle playlist. Otherwise, it would need to manually exclude the current album and add it first. I'll look into that later.

Unless, you know, you'd like to contribute some code now. That would be great too. :D

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It seems that with the latest version all the commits regarding this got reverted. Shuffle albums is no longer working.

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Sorry about that, I had to fix it for real this time. It was by sheer luck that it even worked at all the first time.

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If "Shuffle Albums" is already enabled when Cog is launched with a couple of albums loaded into the playlist, the shuffle doesn't get activated at all and it just plays the albums in order. However, within the same session, if we deactivate and reactivate the option, the shuffle works as intended.

Just for peace of mind, is there a way for Cog to detect if Shuffle Albums is already enabled on launch (like it does for Shuffle Tracks) and enforce the shuffling after all metadata is retrieved?
If not, I'll just close this and manually toggle it each time.

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All metadata is supposed to be retrieved when you add the files, and is cached on disk until the files are removed from the playlist.

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Yes, but "Shuffle Albums" only works if activated manually after all metadata has populated the playlist (we have to wait before activating the option). Enabling the shuffle manually before all metadata has been retrieved or quitting Cog with the Shuffle enabled and reopening some files won't activate the shuffle.

That was my question really, because it differs from the shuffle tracks option. I haven't tried but I assume the repeat options are also applied if already enabled on launch,

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Anyway, I'll toggle the option each time i need it. If you feel it could be improved, I know it will come up on a future update. Thanks again and cheers.

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Sorry it doesn't work as expected. It also doesn't work that well when the playlist has been modified after it is generated. I didn't design the original shuffle thing.

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It's quite improved as it is and thanks for that. The original version didn't even have the album shuffle implemented at all which you tackled quite nicely.

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And as a bare minimum of making it work, I also designed it so that when you start any album manually, it pushes it to the top of the shuffle queue, so that it will play out that album first before beginning whatever else is in the queue.

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