[SlimDevices: SqueezeCenter] Random mix not working in LMS 7.8?

2016-01-30 Thread JohnQCitizen
Until last week I had LMS 7.7.2, and random mix worked fine. I upgraded to LMS 7.8 and now random mix does not work. I get tracks from the same album whenever I select random mix by song, or artist, or album, etc. I cleared and rescanned my library, and restarted LMS. Same problem. Is this a k

Re: [SlimDevices: SqueezeCenter] Random mix not working in LMS 7.8?

2016-01-30 Thread JJZolx
This sounds like an age-old problem/misconception. You _will_ sometimes get songs from the same album played back-to-back in a random mix. Even if you're playing songs from your whole music library it can happen. The fewer songs (narrower the criteria) for the mix, the greater the chance that it w

Re: [SlimDevices: SqueezeCenter] Random mix not working in LMS 7.8?

2016-01-30 Thread JohnQCitizen
JJZolx wrote: > This sounds like an age-old problem/misconception. You _will_ sometimes > get songs from the same album played back-to-back in a random mix. Even > if you're playing songs from your whole music library it can happen. The > fewer songs (narrower the criteria) for the mix, the great

Re: [SlimDevices: SqueezeCenter] Random mix not working in LMS 7.8?

2016-01-30 Thread JJZolx
Look in the web interface at My Music > Random Mix. There's a setting for the genres that are included in the mix. That may be the problem. JJZolx's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=10 View this thre

Re: [SlimDevices: SqueezeCenter] Random mix not working in LMS 7.8?

2016-01-30 Thread JohnQCitizen
I found the culprit: one of the genre tags was selected, and only songs from that one album were in that genre. Not sure how that happened. I cleared that genre selection, and now when I select "random tracks", I get the expected behaviour. Delete thread if necessary ... user error rather than s

Re: [SlimDevices: SqueezeCenter] Random mix not working in LMS 7.8?

2016-02-01 Thread JohnQCitizen
JJZolx wrote: > Look in the web interface at My Music > Random Mix. There's a setting > for the genres that are included in the mix. That may be the problem. Heh ... I didn't see your post before I stumbled upon the same root cause. Thanks for the assistance anyway. Weird that it happened just