Have about 170,000 tracks that i leave on shuffle for a few hours/days.
Most of the time Roon will jump around from album to album (not indefinitely as sometimes it just stops playing for reasons that I could never figure out on this board)…but sometimes it will shuffle to a track on a particular album and then the next shuffle choices are tracks on that album.
To restate: it shuffles within an album until all tracks on that album have been played.
Technically it is still shuffling but i find it odd still…
Any thoughts out there on this?
If the tracks on the album are seen as a composition I think it will play them all before moving on. Tommy by The Who for example.
Still megashuffling Thomas
It looks like you have a Various Artists album which has been identified as a single Composition with 19 parts. Roon thinks it is playing a single work by playing the various parts.
What can you tell us about that Album ?
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It’s not because it’s Various Artists that it is shuffling. It’s because Roon thinks it is a multi-part single composition. If you can show a screenshot of the Album entry in the Album browser we may be able to help you make edits to change that.
Are there any other Albums where this is occurring ?
What metadata do your track files have ? Are they stored in Artist/Album/Track format or in some other way ? Can you post a screenshot of the Album in Roon showing the Track listing ?
Does your History show different parts being shuffled or does it just refer to a single Composition without showing the order in which the parts are played ?
If you want to edit these Albums to differentiate them into separate Tracks then I’d start at the file level using a program like mp3tag to name the Track files etc. Roon should then re-identify them as separate Tracks.
You can also tell Roon to prefer File data or disable Multi-Part Composition grouping in Album/Edit:
So I have posted about this before and Im aware “it is what it is”.
All my recordings are bootlegs.
When shuffle my entire collection roon often gets on a concert and then proceeds to shuffle the tracks within that album/concert.
I guess it thinks its a compilation or something?
Ive gotten an explanation before that made little sense to me.
I love Roon but wha the hell is the deal with this?
Even if the album is “whatever” what sense does it make to suddenly shuffle within an album.
Whenever it happens (way to frequently) I go into Edit album and turn off “multi composition”
Again I know there is not a solution but sometimes it just gets to me…seems so unavoidable.
Roon labels and recognizes the concert correctly…dont get it…ARRRRRRGH