Bulk playlist do not load all songs

I'd like to report a bug with shuffle on large playlists.

App version: 1.44.0 Jellyfin server version: 10.11.11 iOS version: 26.6

Steps to reproduce:

Open a playlist with 400+ songs.
Immediately tap Shuffle (or Shuffle All) without scrolling through the track list first.
Only a subset of the tracks get included in the shuffle/playback — not the full playlist.

Workaround I found: If I scroll all the way down through the entire track list first (so every track loads), then scroll back to the top and hit Shuffle, it works correctly and shuffles the full playlist.

This suggests shuffle is only operating on whatever tracks have been paginated/loaded into memory at the time, rather than fetching the complete playlist first. I noticed the 1.40.0 changelog mentioned "Large playlists now load all tracks correctly" — this may be a regression of that fix, or a related edge case that wasn't fully covered.

If I go to songs with 400+ songs and do shuffle all, it will not load all songs in the shuffle pool as well.

Thanks for the great app otherwise — it's been my go-to Jellyfin client.

cisco

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Oct 3

some other player like Finamp or Jellybox load all the songs in the playlist or shuffle all the songs in the playlist.

Duan Wen

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Sep 12

Hi there, that’s known limitation for Finer, the root cause is that Jellyfin server itself doesn’t support shuffle for playlist natively at server side so we are taking sub-optimal approach at client side currently (shuffle the loaded tracks only).

I was actually hesitant to load all the tracks first and then shuffle them, since I know some users have really large playlists.

Bulk playlist do not load all songs

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