[Plugin] Randomizer

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A long overdue update to the Randomizer Plugin description page…….

Randomizer is a plugin which will allow the user to;

Load and play a number of random tracks from the music library;
Load and play a random album from the music library;
Load and play the album from the track that is currently playing.

The default number of random tracks is 25 but can be changed by the user.

When installed the plugin now appears in the Sources menu making it quicker and easier to use.

To use with lircrc add;

config = node /data/plugins/user_interface/randomizer/randomTracks
or,
config = node /data/plugins/user_interface/randomizer/randomAlbum
or,
config = node /data/plugins/user_interface/randomizer/trackToAlbum

Edit….
With the advent of Volumio 4 and the upgrade to the GPIO buttons plugin allowing Custom Emit - the possible Method names available in Randomizer are;

                           randomTracks
                           randomAlbum
                           trackToAlbum

and for anyone who prefers ‘previous’ to start the previous track rather than restart the current track;

                           truePrevious
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2

Yeah, the update was way earlier then this post :+1:

3

hello, is there a way to send “node /data/plugins/user_interface/randomizer/randomTracks” at volumio startup ?
thanks.

4

please don’t cross post the same question on multiple posts.

5

Hi
I’m using your plugin with Volumio 3.785.
Every time I use “Random album” it adds tracks twice.
For example with 10 tracks album I’m getting “1,2,3…9,10,1,2,3…9,10”. It happend every single time I checked.

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6

Please upgrade to the latest stable version (VERSION: 3.812 RELEASE DATE: 13-05-2025), As I can’t reproduce this behavior.

7

I found, I had a symlink inside the music directory, linking back to the music directory. I belive that is why I had almost every track doubled, and that caused above-mentioned albums doubles.

The only thing I’m wondering about is why the volumio did not fall into an infinite loop… But I can live with that :smiley: