Easier shuffling of all videos of an uploader or a playlist

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Describe the feature you want

Currently shuffling all videos of a playlist or an uploader's videos is very hard. We need to click on the "Play all" button, start the video to show the episode dropdown menu, click on that menu, click shuffle, then skip to the next video. And we haven't talked about that if the uploader has many videos, only the ones loaded in the list will queue.

I propose lets have a more cleaner UI for channels (as proposed in #5747 and #5746) as well as playlists. And add a shuffle all button that fetches all the videos in a playlist creates a random queue then opens a player.

What happens if there are too much entries should be decided. There could be maybe a warning popup (that can be disabled in the settings preferably) that warns that there are too much entries.

Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe it

Additional context

Currently the playlist UI looks like this.

And the channel like this.

I think the 3 sections are unnecessary and the separators take up too much space so it should have either a more compact layout or only icons, including a shuffle all icon:

How will you/everyone benefit from this feature?

Easier shuffling, cleaner UI.

[PTsuarez]

I'd love this feature to be added it's one of the stumbling blocks I hit trying to get people I know to use NP playlist randomisation is just so clumsy with multiple actions required.

[sudocanttype]

It doesn't look like this has been implemented yet, I'm going to try my hand at it

[litetex]

Currently shuffling all videos of a playlist or an uploader's videos is very hard. We need to click on the "Play all" button, start the video to show the episode dropdown menu, click on that menu, click shuffle, then skip to the next video.

Okay so

1. Start playing a playlist
2. opening the android notifcation / the playlist dropdown-menu
3. clicking on the shuffle button
4. (optionally) playing the next video

is hard...

How often does a normal user play a playlist with shuffle mode? I do it almost never.
If I want to listen to music (randomly) I download it locally and play it with my media player because that e.g. works without an internet connection 😉

@SameenAhnaf
I think we should integrate this issue into #5741 (e.g. a option inside the Play all-drop down) as it fit's well better to that topic.
What do you think?

[sudocanttype]

Okay so

1. Start playing a playlist

2. opening the android notifcation / the playlist dropdown-menu

3. clicking on the shuffle button

4. (optionally) playing the next video

is hard...

Those 5-10 clicks/swipes could easily be replaced with one click, might as well right?

How often does a normal user play a playlist with shuffle mode? I do it almost never. If I want to listen to music (randomly) I download it locally and play it with my media player because that e.g. works without an internet connection wink

There is a population of people who use newpipe as an alternative for spotify, including me. Plus some people also have playlists in the hundreds to thousands of songs, and mass downloading them is not currently supported by NewPipe, and pirating them off site is unfeasible.

[litetex]

Those 5-10 clicks/swipes could easily be replaced with one click, might as well right?

I think it will never be one click because it will never be the default - unless we add a setting or all people now want a shuffled playlist by default.
You will always have to e.g. click the shuffle button and then play the playlist (current situation in your PR) or the "Play-all"-dropdown and then select "Play all randomly" or something similar.

There is a population of people who use newpipe as an alternative for spotify, including me.

Side-note: I'm not sure if NewPipe was built as a Spotify alternative.

Plus some people also have playlists in the hundreds to thousands of songs

Side-note: Also pretty sure that this NewPipe was not designed for this.

and mass downloading them is not currently supported by NewPipe

→ #5482

[sudocanttype]

It wasn't designed or built as a spotify alternative, but people do use it as such since there seems to be no good other option.

I think it will never be one click because it will never be the default - unless we add a setting or all people now want a shuffled playlist by default.

My bad, 2 clicks, but still better than what we have now.

[SameenAhnaf]

@sudocanttype Maybe, #1795 is a better alternative. The option in three dots menu isn't obvious.

Btw, I couldn't test the PR APK. Does selecting Shuffle from three dots menu asks for a player or does it just stay enabled?

[sudocanttype]

Does selecting Shuffle from three dots menu asks for a player or does it just stay enabled?

No, hitting shuffle is essentially doing what spotify "shuffle play" does. It shuffles all the songs and adds them to the background queue. It does not do anything permanent, like #1795 button toggle, because it is possible that some people do both watch videos from playlists and listen to music from playlists. It would be a pain to have to go to the settings every time you went from listening to music to watching videos from a playlist.

The option in three dots menu isn't obvious.

That's my bad, I wasn't sure how to give more room to the icons of the menu. Currently, if your screen is wide enough, the icon should appear.

[SameenAhnaf]

I think we should integrate this issue into #5741 (e.g. a option inside the Play all-drop down) as it fit's well better to that topic.

A user may want to shuffle within only next or previous videos. Also, he or she may want to play first two or three videos chronologically and shuffle other ones. That's why, Shuffle should be a play queue option, not integrated into #5741.

It does not do anything permanent, like #1795 button toggle, because it is possible that some people do both watch videos from playlists and listen to music from playlists.

#5654 asks for multiple settings and player info. If a user needs to keep different player options for different channels or playlists, that can be considered later. Also, Shuffle can be enabled or disabled pretty easily from notification player. You may continue with #1795 at this moment if you're okay with that change.