Re:Ask HN: Why are modern music players so bad at playing mu...
by wonderhamster on Wednesday July 03, 2019 @02:39PM
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what kind of animal listens to music in a random order?!? I have trouble finding a player that organizes by album. I just want to play to a sorted list of albums in order. No player does this.
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Re:Ask HN: Why are modern music players so bad at playing mu...
by WorldMaker on Wednesday July 03, 2019 @04:17PM
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You can set that up with Foobar 2000 if your albums are correctly tagged. It's also one of the few players I've met that gives you a "middle choice" of randomly picking albums, but playing the albums themselves start to finish.
(That said, I'm one of the animals that shuffles everything in my library regardless of genre or album order anything else.)
Re:Ask HN: Why are modern music players so bad at playing mu...
by firethief on Wednesday July 03, 2019 @02:49PM
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Mine does:
mplayer artist/album/*
Re:Ask HN: Why are modern music players so bad at playing mu...
by magicalhippo on Wednesday July 03, 2019 @06:41PM
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Not exactly what you want, but Plexamp[1] has a "random album" mode, where it plays randomly selected albums. I really like this feature, as I find it's a good balance between random and coherence.
Before anyone screams, yes it's an Electron-based app but it's fairly lightweight as far as those go.
[1]: https://plexamp.com/ (required Plex server)
Re:Ask HN: Why are modern music players so bad at playing mu...
by phjesusthatguy3 on Wednesday July 03, 2019 @03:49PM
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Symphony (found it on F-Droid a while ago) claims to do this but it didn't seem to work well for me.