Home Music Share, loading all songs and randomly playing

[StéphaneD]

I'm a new user. The WiiM mini is an amazing device but I encounter an issue with randomly playing from a large music collection (around 9000 songs), stored on a DLNA server at home (using the minidlna server).

I'm trying to randomly play my songs. I go to "All Music" and click on a song and set the "random" option. Unfortunately, it seems to play songs only from an initial list. This initial list seems to be limited to a certain number of songs from my collection (always the same). It looks like it is necessary to swipe up to load a new batch of songs. With a large collection, one needs to do that many times... And this is not remembered i.e. if you go "back" in the app, and then go to "All Music" again, you only see the initial list.

Is it possible to use the WiiM app to play randomly a large collection of songs ? Without needing to load the whole collection "by hand". Maybe I'm missing something ?

Note that there is a workaround : I can use an app like Hi-Fi Cast to send the random songs to the WiiM mini but it is a pity not to be able to use the dedicated app (plus it seems to confuse the app that is always showing the same song playing).

 

[Boofighter]

I'm a new user. The WiiM mini is an amazing device but I encounter an issue with randomly playing from a large music collection (around 9000 songs), stored on a DLNA server at home (using the minidlna server).

I'm trying to randomly play my songs. I go to "All Music" and click on a song and set the "random" option. Unfortunately, it seems to play songs only from an initial list. This initial list seems to be limited to a certain number of songs from my collection (always the same). It looks like it is necessary to swipe up to load a new batch of songs. With a large collection, one needs to do that many times... And this is not remembered i.e. if you go "back" in the app, and then go to "All Music" again, you only see the initial list.

Is it possible to use the WiiM app to play randomly a large collection of songs ? Without needing to load the whole collection "by hand". Maybe I'm missing something ?

Note that there is a workaround : I can use an app like Hi-Fi Cast to send the random songs to the WiiM mini but it is a pity not to be able to use the dedicated app (plus it seems to confuse the app that is always showing the same song playing).

I know this is from a long time ago but I have a similar problem in 2024. I have two folders on my computer, one called “all songs” and one called “music”. All songs is just all the songs dumped into a folder, no albums, the other has the songs in the albums. Not great but it works.
My problem is that when playing from “All songs” I can’t always see all the songs that I know are in there.

 

[Hazenhart]

The WiiM Home App limits the que to 500 songs. Hence your big shuffle play is impossible. This is a known and long-standing problem. Please submit a ticket and a feature request.

 

[Boofighter]

I am not referring to the que.

 

[Hazenhart]

But it's the underlying problem for what you describe. WiiM only "sees" 500 songs at once.

 

[Boofighter]

But it's the underlying problem for what you describe. WiiM only "sees" 500 songs at once.

Ok. Thank you.

 

[simbun]

But it's the underlying problem for what you describe. WiiM only "sees" 500 songs at once.

The queue is restricted to ~500 but when browsing it'll show as many tracks as there are indexed.
I'm still not sure if @Boofighter is talking about the queue or when browsing though.