Bug 260001

Summary:	dynamic playlist does not match very randomly
Product:	[Applications] amarok	Reporter:	Silver Salonen <silver.salonen>
Component:	Playlists/Dynamic Playlists	Assignee:	Amarok Developers <amarok-bugs-dist>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED
Severity:	normal	CC:	lfranchi, ralf-engels
Priority:	NOR
Version:	2.4-GIT
Target Milestone:	2.4.0
Platform:	Unlisted Binaries
OS:	Linux
Latest Commit:		Version Fixed In:	2.4.2

Description Silver Salonen 2010-12-15 22:27:09 UTC

Version:           2.4-GIT (using KDE 4.5.4) 
OS:                Linux

I made a script that I used to convert dynamic/smart playlists from Amarok 1.4 to Amarok 2.4 dynamic playlists. So I now have 77 different artists to be matched with proportion 100% in dynamic playlist. When I repopulate the playlist, mostly one artist is always shown in playlist. 'Upcoming' is set to 10, so there are 8 of this one artist's tracks and 2 other.

With some other playlist (that has more than 100 of those matches) things are a bit better, but not much - in there sometimes 3-4 artists take 9 out of 10 places. Sometimes one track is shown multiple times in row (looks like a hell of a coincidence).

Reproducible: Always

Comment 1 Ralf Engels 2011-05-27 20:14:01 UTC

Should be fixed with dynamic playlist.
Also the default is to prevent duplicates.