Philip Meyer wrote: 
> >Unfortunately this was causing problems in 
> >the web UI where when drilling down the list was re-evaluated,
> resulting 
> >in a different random resultset... That's the reason why you can't
> drill 
> >down the albums list as you do with other browse modes. I'm glad nobody
> 
> >complained so far :-). But as this mode is mostly for album listeners,
> 
> >drilling down to the track level probably isn't as important as in
> other 
> >use cases.
> 
> I'm not sure what you mean by "can't drill down the list". I thought
> that you meant that you can't drill down into an album to see the list
> of tracks, but I do seem to be able to do that in the Web UI for "Random
> Albums".

That's correct. 

He's referring to the pagination. Originally, it was paged by number,
like New Music. Which isn't really necessary, since you can easily
refresh the page from the link in the breadcrumbs. The problem is that
sorting (truly) randomly isn't repeatable, so page 2 and etc. aren't
actually pages of the same random sort. I imagine that if you really
thought about it (and it was worth the effort), you could come up with a
way to make it both random and repeatable, such as saving/passing a
randomly generated seed and resetting the seed only when you go back to
page one.


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