This is just a suggestion for the usb music library in the wiim ultra. Of course I have ways of accomplishing this with either lms,navidrome, emby, plex, asset (to a certain extent). It's just something I'd like to see and as a result use the usb library feature more.
Sorting by random is the most important feature for me in a Music server. It's the reason I won't use roon despite having a lifetime key.
For me it's the best way to emulate how I've always picked something to listen to. I always looked at a big wall of records or CDs or tapes and just picked something. To be honest I do sort them alphabetically by Artist. What I don't do is read each album title one by one starting at 10,000 Maniacs every time I want to put a new cd on.
I also don't have a list of them in date order that I read one by one. Neither, do I look at what's already playing then grab an old mojo or uncut magazine or grab down my encyclopaedia of Jazz to look up something similar to play.
I just walk over to the wall of Music, look at it as a whole and spot something. I know that I have conscious and unconscious biases. But I might choose, something I like, something new, something I bought ages ago and haven't really properly listen too. Who knows? Maybe something I bought because it's supposed to be good, never liked but years later found that it was, indeed, a work of staggering genius (looking at you Rain Dogs, Tom Waits).
For me the only way of coming close to that, with a digital music collection, is to be presented with all my albums in a different random order each time I look. So I, at least, have a chance of seeing any of them each time I put something on.
Sorting by random is the most important feature for me in a Music server. It's the reason I won't use roon despite having a lifetime key.
For me it's the best way to emulate how I've always picked something to listen to. I always looked at a big wall of records or CDs or tapes and just picked something. To be honest I do sort them alphabetically by Artist. What I don't do is read each album title one by one starting at 10,000 Maniacs every time I want to put a new cd on.
I also don't have a list of them in date order that I read one by one. Neither, do I look at what's already playing then grab an old mojo or uncut magazine or grab down my encyclopaedia of Jazz to look up something similar to play.
I just walk over to the wall of Music, look at it as a whole and spot something. I know that I have conscious and unconscious biases. But I might choose, something I like, something new, something I bought ages ago and haven't really properly listen too. Who knows? Maybe something I bought because it's supposed to be good, never liked but years later found that it was, indeed, a work of staggering genius (looking at you Rain Dogs, Tom Waits).
For me the only way of coming close to that, with a digital music collection, is to be presented with all my albums in a different random order each time I look. So I, at least, have a chance of seeing any of them each time I put something on.
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