[Aemstel]

This seems like a pretty basic function to me, but I am unable to find how to do it: I have a huge playlist of songs (m3u) that I would like to play in random order when selected. I know you can just run the playlist and toggle 'randomize', but I would like (only) this playlist to automatically randomize whenever I select it. Is this at all possible?

I know smart playlists can be set to random order, but you can't select a bunch of songs in a smart playlist, or better yet, an m3u file. You can only give it rules, like "where title is". This would take me ages to create. (also, I have several versions of some songs that have the same title, studio albums and live albums for example)

[ranis]

I second this question!

Ran

[jhsrennie]

If it's just one playlist you could write a short script to start playing it then set random order. I haven't tried it but I'd guess you would use something like:

Code:

import xbmc

xbmc.executebuiltin("Playmedia(MyPlaylist.m3u)")
xbmc.executebuiltin("PlayerControl(Random)")

You can map the script to some convenient keypress or with a little more effort convert it to an add-on so it appears under the Music add-ons.