I've been wanting this feature for a long time, so I'm developing it myself. I have never worked with qt before so require a little help.

I would like to have a button that starts playing the playlist after shuffling (instead of having to manually click on a random track from the playlist, it's just inconvenient). This button would be positioned between the "Clear Playlist" and "Undo" buttons.

I probably would have to create a new action in mainwindow.ui and add it to ui_->playlist->SetActions. And then create a corresponding function PlaylistShufflePlay() for it where shuffle (I couldn't find a function for this) is called before calling PlaylistPlay().

Can somebody point me in the right direction on how this should be implemented?

@jonas

I don't understand what you want to do here.

I'll try to explain again:

• So, let's say I'm playing a track from playlist A
• Now, I would like to start playing a random track from playlist B

To do this, I would have to

• Click on playlist B
• Select a random track manually from playlist B (or ctrl+h and then select a track)
• Double click on the track to start playing it

Why can't you just press play?

• The play button controls the currently playing track (from playlist A, in my example)
• So, pressing play just plays/pauses the current playing track

Solution

• A button that shuffles the current selected playlist (not the one that is currently playing) and then plays a track from it.

Behavior when using this modified feature

• I am playing a track from playlist A
• I press play/pause button: the current track plays/pauses
• I click on playlist B
• There is a "Shuffle Play" button between the "Clear Playlist" and "Undo" buttons. I click on "Shuffle Play"
• The playlist B is shuffled and a random track from the playlist B starts playing

Hope this makes it clear. I'm pretty sure many people would like to have such a feature, it is pretty convenient this way.

Hi @jonas can you help me?

@jonas

I don't understand what you want to do here.

I'll try to explain again:

• So, let's say I'm playing a track from playlist A
• Now, I would like to start playing a random track from playlist B

To do this, I would have to

• Click on playlist B
• Select a random track manually from playlist B (or ctrl+h and then select a track)
• Double click on the track to start playing it

Why can't you just press play?

• The play button controls the currently playing track (from playlist A, in my example)
• So, pressing play just plays/pauses the current playing track

Solution

• A button that shuffles the current selected playlist (not the one that is currently playing) and then plays a track from it.

Behavior when using this modified feature

• I am playing a track from playlist A
• I press play/pause button: the current track plays/pauses
• I click on playlist B
• There is a "Shuffle Play" button between the "Clear Playlist" and "Undo" buttons. I click on "Shuffle Play"
• The playlist B is shuffled and a random track from the playlist B starts playing

Hope this makes it clear. I'm pretty sure many people would like to have such a feature, it is pretty convenient this way.

Hi @jonas can you help me?

I've been wanting this feature for a long time, so I'm developing it myself. I have never worked with qt before so require a little help.

I would like to have a button that starts playing the playlist after shuffling (instead of having to manually click on a random track from the playlist, it's just inconvenient). This button would be positioned between the "Clear Playlist" and "Undo" buttons.

I probably would have to create a new action in mainwindow.ui and add it to ui_->playlist->SetActions. And then create a corresponding function PlaylistShufflePlay() for it where shuffle (I couldn't find a function for this) is called before calling PlaylistPlay().

Can somebody point me in the right direction on how this should be implemented?