So, I organize my songs by "Folders", when I select the Root Folder that holds all my folders, and then select "Shuffle" the app will select a song from one of my folders, and then it will "continue" to play songs in THAT folder ONLY.
Yes, that is by design. When you a viewing a list of Folders, the shuffle function will select one of those folders and play it at random, then when that's done it will pick another random folder, and so on.
To adjust that functionality and make shuffle instead pick individual songs at random from anywhere within the viewed folders, enable Settings=>Library=>Shuffle=>'Shuffle All Songs in Folder Hierarchy'.
Oh, and a quick, slightly-related, tip: if you only have one root folder for your music, you can bypass seeing a pointless view with just one folder in it by enabling Settings=>Library=>Lists=>'Folders Hierarchy Immediate Root'.
1. I actually don't think it should do "random by Folder" by default. That setting is for Randomizing "Songs" so I think that's how it should work by default.
So, I would recommend to have the "extra" Setting be for those who want to Randomize Songs "by Folder". So, they can set that setting if they want that ability.
3. Strange, I've "Enabled" something else that Lists all the Folders in my Root Music Folder, I don't have that setting enabled? But, thank you for the tip, maybe this method is better, will look into it.
Hmmm... Thinking about it, I could have sworn that WAS actually the setting I enabled, but it's showing as "disabled" currently. Maybe that's the same issue as the above "not enabled" setting? Will Try enabling/disabling these to see if that fixes the problem.
Okay, so BOTH settings are enabled, and no change.
The Shuffle setting STILL doesn't work with songs in folders in the Root folder, it will only do as you said, continue playing songs in a particular folder it selected at random.
If you want to shuffle everything in your root music folder (I assume you don't mean root level of your storage, which you should not be putting music files into) just use Shuffle All Songs, either by tapping the 'Shuffle' icon on the Player Screen or just using the small header icon at the top of the All Songs Category. I agree that PA does have a lot of shuffling options though, and it can take a while to get used to them.
The header Shuffle icon is NOT meant to be a "shuffle all songs from here down" button, it's designed to shuffle whatever is displayed in the current list. So for example if you are viewing a list of five albums by an artist, it will shuffle each album in turn as that is what you are viewing. In most Categories there is an 'All Songs in this Category' link at the top, which would for example show you all of the songs in those five albums in one long list, and at that level the Shuffle icon will shuffle everything on the current screen - i.e. all songs by that artist. That behaviour can be overridden in Settings=>Library=>Shuffle, in the same way you can override it for folders.
Could you show a screenshot of the folders view where the 'Shuffle All Songs in Folder Hierarchy' does not work for you? For me, it works even up the top level of my master 'Audio' folder which contains about half a dozen themed subfolders. For example, this is my root hierarchy level - i.e. all of my music subfolders that are contained inside my master 'Audio' folder. And tapping the Shuffle icon at the top (when 'Shuffle All Songs in Folder Hierarchy' is enabled) picks random songs from anywhere in any of the subfolders.
Also, I tried to "long press" the Shuffle Icon in the Top header, and it ONLY shows "Shuffle Songs & Categores" as the only option. So, it's not like in the Now Playing screen in which when you long press the Shuffle Icons it shows you other options you can select.
One other thing, just tested, and on the Now Playing Screen selecting "Shuffle All" it WILL properly shuffle ALL songs in all my folders.
So, it's an issue related to the below screen ONLY, when I select the Shuffle Icon in that pic, it appears with that setting of course, since you said it will only work that way.
That is plain Folders view - which is just a long flattened list of every subfolder in the whole music system. The header-line shuffle icon in that mode only works by selecting a random folder and then listening to its contents shuffled, and then the next random folder, so on. There's no point in it working any other way as there are no structure layers underneath each item to be accessed or grouped. That the top Folders view covers in your entire music collection anyway, so just use the All Songs Category instead, or select 'Shuffle All Songs' from the Player Screen.
"Folders" mode does not show any hierarchy at all - it has no ability to drill down from one level into the next (like viewing folders and subfolders in a file explorer app). It just offers a flattened list of every existing subfolder, one after the other. There are actually several categories that are hidden by default, including Folders Hierarchy which is more like a file explorer layout, and you can choose which ones you want to show/hide by tapping the three-dots menu icon at the top-level Library view and selecting List Options.
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It's really annoying to add each song to a playlist. How can I just add it? There's a download on top of albums but it will download all songs and I need only one. There's no plus sign next to each songs like Apple Music, that would've saved a lot of time.
Recording began in 1969 at Olympic Studios in London during sessions for Sticky Fingers, with the main sessions beginning in mid-1971 at Nellcte, a rented villa in the South of France, after the band members became tax exiles. Due to the lack of a professional studio nearby, they worked with a mobile recording studio and recorded in-house. The loose and unorganised Nellcte sessions went on for hours into the night, with personnel varying greatly from day to day. Recording was completed with overdub sessions at Sunset Sound in Los Angeles and included additional musicians such as the pianist Nicky Hopkins, the saxophonist Bobby Keys, the drummer and producer Jimmy Miller, and the horn player Jim Price. The results produced enough songs for the Stones' first double album.
The band continued a back-to-basics direction heard in Sticky Fingers after the experimental instrumentation of previous albums, yet Exile exhibited a wider range of influences in blues, rock and roll, swing, country and gospel, while the lyrics explored themes related to hedonism, sex and time. The album contains frequently-performed concert staples and topped the charts in six countries, including the UK, US and Canada. It included the singles "Happy", which featured lead vocals from Keith Richards, the country ballad "Sweet Virginia", and the worldwide top-ten hit "Tumbling Dice". The album's artwork, a collage of various images, reflected the Rolling Stones' prideful rebellion. After its release, the Stones embarked on an American tour, gaining infamy for riotous audiences and performances.
Exile on Main St. was originally met with mixed reviews before receiving strong reassessments by the end of the 1970s. It has since been recognized as a pivotal hard rock album, viewed by many critics as the Rolling Stones' best work and as one of the greatest albums of all time. Rolling Stone magazine ranked the album number 7 on its list of the "500 Greatest Albums of All Time" in 2003 and 2012, with it dropping to number 14 in the 2020 edition, consistently as the highest-ranked Rolling Stones album on the list. In 2012, the album was inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame, the band's fourth album to be inducted. A remastered and expanded version of the album was released in 2010 featuring a bonus disc with 10 new tracks. Unusual for a re-release, it also charted highly at the time of its release, reaching number one in the UK and number two in the US.
Exile on Main St. was written and recorded between 1969 and 1972. Mick Jagger said, "After we got out of our contract with Allen Klein, we didn't want to give him [those earlier tracks]," as they were forced to do with "Brown Sugar" and "Wild Horses" from Sticky Fingers (1971). Many tracks were recorded between 1969 and 1971 at Olympic Studios and Jagger's Stargroves country house in East Woodhay during sessions for Sticky Fingers.[5]
By the spring of 1971 the Rolling Stones had spent the money they owed in taxes and left Britain before the government could seize their assets. Jagger settled in Paris with his new bride Bianca, and guitarist Keith Richards rented a villa, Nellcte, in Villefranche-sur-Mer, near Nice. The other members settled in the south of France. As a suitable recording studio could not be found where they could continue work on the album, Richards' basement at Nellcte became a makeshift studio using the band's mobile recording truck.
Recording began in earnest sometime near the middle of June. The bassist Bill Wyman recalls the band working all night, every night, from eight in the evening until three the following morning for the rest of the month. Wyman said of that period, "Not everyone turned up every night. This was, for me, one of the major frustrations of this whole period. For our previous two albums we had worked well and listened to producer Jimmy Miller. At Nellcte things were very different and it took me a while to understand why." By this time Richards had begun a daily habit of using heroin. Thousands of pounds' worth of heroin flowed through the mansion each week, along with visitors such as William S. Burroughs, Terry Southern, Gram Parsons, John Lennon, and Marshall Chess, the son of the famous blues impresario Leonard Chess, who had been recently recruited to serve as president of the Rolling Stones' new eponymous record label.[6] Parsons was asked to leave Nellcte in early July 1971, the result of his obnoxious behavior and an attempt by Richards to clean the house of drug users as the result of pressure from the French police.[7]
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