Nova and Star

Thats about more than 24 hours of music ... that should be enough?

Steveb4 posted:

Can anyone confirm if the Uniti can only queue 500 songs when you choose random.

Yes, the max play queue length is 500 tracks. On old Uniti boxes, you could go to “all tracks”, eg, hit play then choose random to avoid this limit.  I just also confirmed that the new Uniti devices (or the new app) don’t have this workaround: if you go, eg, to “all albums” and select play (at the very top, using the three dots menu), the play queue has only the first 500 tracks (first selected alpha by album, then in track order per album; I didn’t bother choosing shuffle mode).

Regards alan

alan33 posted:

Steveb4 posted:

Can anyone confirm if the Uniti can only queue 500 songs when you choose random.

Yes, the max play queue length is 500 tracks. On old Uniti boxes, you could go to “all tracks”, eg, hit play then choose random to avoid this limit.  I just also confirmed that the new Uniti devices (or the new app) don’t have this workaround: if you go, eg, to “all albums” and select play (at the very top, using the three dots menu), the play queue has only the first 500 tracks (first selected alpha by album, then in track order per album; I didn’t bother choosing shuffle mode).

Regards alan

Never tried it, but if true that's poor on newer machines which should have more resources for processing large numbers of tracks.

That's only around 50 albums - crumbs, if we only had that many playing back via Naim gear would be pretty expensive per album even if we loved them!

I guess it’s a design consideration that some find inconvenient, Alley Cat. Discussion on the 500 track limit goes back a long way, for sure, and it hasn’t changed in the latest builds. (IIRC it was less than 500 at one stage... maybe 250 on the older 2D streaming boards?) But you can probably make a different workaround if you need it by considering server-side playlists (eg as mpu files on your NAS, I think). I don’t know if the shuffle feature would only look at the first 500 tracks in such a scheme or not. Might be worth looking for a huge pre-made Tidal playlist to check it out if you have an interest?  

Regards alan

Thanks all.

Personally I freak out if the next track I hear isn't as it was on the album ! but my wifr likes to just have it on random all day.

500 is a lot but when its the same 500 over again it gets boring. 

I think for money its not to much to ask it do something a phone or ipod can do 

Steveb4 posted:

Thanks all.

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500 is a lot but when its the same 500 over again it gets boring. 

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That's the key point in my view.

Even with a 500 track random playlist, randomising it should be an utterly trivial software task.

I believe that the maximum of 500 tracks refers to one single play list, you may have as many Playlists of 500 as you wish. Give each list a suitable name. Rich