> "play random album from my collection"
Quod Libet (https://quodlibet.readthedocs.io/en/latest/) lets you do exactly that.
Can you use that on Android?
No. Quod Libet is GTK-based.
Pandora allows you to shuffle playlists. Might allow you to sort of achieve what you're after.
Re:How bad is your Spotify?
by will_pseudonym on Wednesday December 23, 2020 @10:07PM
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foobar2k wins again ;)
Does it have this ability out of the box? I don't remember it being there years ago (I looked for it), but that was 3+ years ago.
It's still the best music player I know of though, even when running with Wine on Linux.
Re:How bad is your Spotify?
by will_pseudonym on Thursday December 24, 2020 @02:37AM
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AFAIK, I didn't have to add any plugins to achieve that feature. I believe you can set the order to be Shuffle Tracks or Shuffle Albums out of the box, but I might be misremembering if I needed to do anything for that to be there.
see: https://i.imgur.com/zL0oZsx.png
You can customize this feature in Advanced Preferences. Then, go to Playback -> Shuffle -> Album grouping pattern.
How great is fb2k for music discovery? Also their macOS player is kind of...bad. I'd recommend Cog for local files.
Re:How bad is your Spotify?
by AsyncAwait on Thursday December 24, 2020 @06:59AM
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So does cmus :-)
mostly the same for me, but I would love to be able to browse record labels on spotify; it does not have the concept of a record label (!) though.
It does. At least some time ago on desktop version every album had a copyright (record label) listed on the bottom. Clicking it would search you all of the stuff released under that label.
None of them are links: https://i.imgur.com/IikFCNt.png
That's exactly what I'm not looking for; I'm perfectly fine with making my own music choices. I know what I like, have an extensive "library" on Spotify, and play from just that.
The biggest thing I'm missing from Spotify (or indeed, most players, except the one I wrote myself years ago) is the ability to say "play random album from my collection". Play random track is too biased towards albums with 60 tracks vs. albums with just one track.