Custom Filters for Random play

[Uk0kA]

I don't quite understand how something like this would work.

I don't either. Still trying to figure out a way to avoid adding recently played artists when auto shuffling my whole digital library.
ashuffle developer had thought of how to implement this but unfortunately never added the feature.

If you'd like this feature in ashuffle, I'd propose instead a more configurable window-uniqueness. E.g. no two songs by the same artist can be in the window at the same time. With the standard window size of 7, and songs by artists A..Z, this would end up doing a shuffle like [A1, X9, F2, Q7, B2, R5, M1, A3, ...] Notice that A repeats before a song by every letter is played. This means that it wouldn't guarantee the interleave across all songs, just for the window length. I think that should be enough space between the artists to be good enough, and it fits better with ashuffle's model.