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Would be cool if there was a way to start a global random play,
i.e. shuffle play across your entire library, with ability to skip forward to next song.

I second that!!!
That is all I want to be able to do. Other than that it is awesome.

well, until then, theres the "random playlist creation" under "more"-tab

Yep did find that, works great. Although the concept of just shuffle across all would be nice.

Even though it seems in this mode (with player set to "external") that you can't skip songs, which kind of defeats the purpose.

Would REALLY like to see this....its tedious for me to select a random 50 songs from my collection of 13K songs

I really would love to have this option too, Its hard even with short list of songs because i most of the time have only a couple of songs per album

Also it would be great to remove the artists on wich no songs are available while offline

Another +1 vote for this feature.

I would also like this feature.

With so many songs, I'd like to be able to have a random playlist across all generated.

Or at least, larger options (>50)

thanks!

You CAN skip songs. You do it from the subsonic web interface. Simply click the next song in the list. Of course if it's the last song in the list you cannot skip to next (since no "next" yet exists) unless you click the "more" button and regenerate a new random playlist. Also, if the player buffers a large amount of the stream then it may not immediately skip to the next song. In my case I just click play again in the player (or press the play shortcut key Win+X) which causes the player to attempt to reconnect to the stream. This, for me, has the effect of immediately playing the song I just clicked on in subsonic.

I'm sure there must be some technical reason that the "Play more random songs when end of playlist is reached." setting is limited to just external players - but I can't think of one. Can anyone (Sindre?) explain why it's not available with the web/flash player?

You can add more than 50 by modifying \subsonic\jetty\1529\webapp\WEB-INF\jsp\more.jsp. Simply open the file with notepad and find the line:

<option value="50"><fmt:message key="more.random.songs"><fmt:param value="50"/></fmt:message></option>

Copy and paste this line before the </select>. Change the 50 to however big you want it. Through some personal testing I have found it doesn't work too well past 300. After you have finished, click save. Refresh subsonic and there you have it. An option for more random songs. Hope this helps.

i agree, it'd be nice to have more immediate access to a global random-syle play. One thing I was looking to find was a way to make something like a bookmarklet with set parameters (for instance: 50 songs, any genre, any year, any folder) that would automatically make a new playlist when clicked on. this could be put on the home page, or maybe just a bookmarklet in the browser favorites...
I, however, don't know enough about javascript or about how subsonic generates these playlists when the "OK" button is hit to know whether this is even possible . . . let alone how to implement it.
Does anyone with a little more javascript expertise know if this bookmarklet idea is possible?

I'd really appreciate such a feature. I love the idea to store a kind of template for a random playlist, because it should be possible to specify one (or more) folders to include (or even exclude).