No way to play a random album (or artist).

[vext01]

As far as I can tell, there is no way (in HibyOS) to chose a random album to play.

The best you can do is:

• go to the "all songs" tab
• play something
• put the play mode to shuffle
• hit "next" on the player to find a random song
• in the menu choose "go to album"
• start the first track of the album playing
• turn off shuffle mode

Compare this to say, Navidrome:

There is a "random album" button, which shows a list of albums in random order. You just hit play on one. Easy.

Would be nice if you could do the same for artists too.

[SuperTaiyaki]

I modified the R3 Pro/Saber firmware to add this album shuffle: https://github.com/SuperTaiyaki/hiby-firmware-tools/blob/master/patch.sh#L16
Hijacking the genre list was the best way I could come up with. Should be applicable to anything on Hiby OS, but I only have an R3 Pro to test.

[vext01]

I love what you are doing here!

[vext01]

@SuperTaiyaki Using your patching, are you able to make it so that searches are not anchored to the start of the search term?

See #16.

[SuperTaiyaki]

@vext01
I think the relevant query is
INSERT INTO SEARCH_TABLE SELECT * FROM MEDIA_TABLE WHERE rowid in(select rowid from MEDIA_TABLE WHERE name like ?)
with similar versions for artist, album and genre. To remove the anchoring I'd need to change it to LIKE '%'||?, and it looks like there's not enough room in the string table to fix it with sed like I did everything else. There's no collate pinyin to delete to make space either. Will give it some more thought.