Re: foo_random_pools
Reply #277 – 2021-01-25 20:15:38
I know this thread is a year old, but I just started using this and I am a bit confused with it. I used to use Shuffle (tracks) and noticed how it can reset that shuffle in between sessions of Foobar, which means I end up hearing the same tracks sometimes over and over again before hearing all of the tracks on a playlist. So I had enough of that and thus found random pools. I got it working: to fill a new playlist with a random sorting of all files from my library. But to do so, I had to manually set the "Number of groups to add" to the total track count and the "Group" to "%folder% - %title%" since the tracks I want to play are organized by folder (artist) and filename (title). This works, but it would be nice not to manually set the number of groups. If it's set to 1 here, it just adds one track. I tried setting "Group" to %library% to grab everything, then the "Number of groups to add" only needs to be set to 1 and it works, but the randomness is really odd. It starts off random (different tracks from different folders), then it starts to lump entire folders together towards the end. So I'd have one folder with may be two dozen tracks all added to the bottom of the playlist, not anywhere else. For this I have nothing in Filter, nothing in Sort, and "Sort / limit each group" unchecked. Also Limits are all set to 0 to make sure there's no limit. Pretty much everything unchecked. So, what's the simplest way to fill a new playlist with a random list of all tracks from my Library? Am I missing something? Thanks.