>You should get a PL button beside an artist, if you don't it might be
>disabled in the server settings. There is an option in the Dynamic
>Playlist settings that is called "Buttons in browse pages" that
>controls this. This works in my own setup, so if it doesn't work in
>yours when this option is enabled I like to know, because then
>something is probably wrong in my plugin code.
>
I have that option enabled, but I don't see the PL button.

>After creating a new playlist, I think you will need to go to the
>Dynamic Playlist menu once in the player UI or web UI for it to start
>generating the PL buttons.
>
Ah - I just tried to find the playlist in Dynamic Playlist web UI, and I can't 
see it there either!

>But I don't think this is the problem
>because if you got the play+hold action to work in the player UI it
>seems like it has noticed the new playlist already.
>
I do see it in the player UI mixer.  Strange.

>Do I understand you correctly that you like to play all the songs that
>matched the search in random order ?
>
Yes - but not a frequent thing I would like to do.  eg. If I do a keyword 
search in lazy search to get back albums, artists or songs containing the 
search string, I was thinking I could go to "All Songs" and call up some 
song-context mixers.  However, there isn't such a menu, so that is probably a 
non-starter :(

However, I can find artists containg "Zion" to get a list of all varieties of 
"A Silver Mt. Zion", "A Silver Mount Zion", "Thee Silver Mt. Zion and Tra-la 
Band", etc, all of which are essentially the same band.  There is then an "All 
Artists" menu option, but no mixers.  In fact, I think all I can do here is 
press play (there's no menu options, or in fact no note icon to show that play 
is an option - I should report that to the Lazy Search author).

>Not just select an item in the search result and play that item in
>random order, for example an artist ?
>
Now I have configured the Dynamic Playlists for artist context, I can do this.  
This would be my normal usage.

>Is the main idea that you like functionality to remember a search
>result so you can use it at a later time ?
>
Not really - I just wanted to search for something and play random songs from 
the result set.

I can play all results, save the static playlist temporarily, and then I guess 
it is possible to play random songs from a chosen playlist?  Afterwards, delete 
the playlist.  The only side issue is that squeezecenter seems really slow to 
respond with a large list of songs in the current playlist, so if there is a 
large set of search results, it's not ideal.

Phil
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