Random Play

Posted by: PG on 15 May 2012

I have a Unitiqute and Qnap NAS.

Does anyone know which device dictates the random play order and can it be altered?

I can't tell you how often the same tracks come up time and time again, in one listening session.

I know I only have 8000 songs, and I love Josh Groben's February Song! but it and many others come round with unusual regularity.

Based on this setup it's a shame the lottery doesn't work in the same way ...I'd be quids in....

There is the advance button, but this has a tendency to stop the Qute from working (freezes) if the button is pressed too often.

Can the system be altered to be more random!!!!!!???

Posted on: 15 May 2012 by Peter_RN

PG…….. As the Qute pulls the music from the server I would suspect that it’s the Qute making the selection, select random from the handset. Do you have multiple copies of the often-played tracks? On the odd occasions I have used this feature it is the various copies that are played, rather than the same copy being played several times.

Peter

Posted on: 15 May 2012 by PG

Hi, yep the random is selected and as everything was re ripped there are few if any duplicates

Posted on: 15 May 2012 by Martin_C

Ah but truly random has far more repetition than most people would think .....apple, for example, have tweaked their algorithm to be less random

.....if I ask nicely do you think the NDS could have a Latin Hypercube button