From c4272c86f760357ef147045a495694339a5bce30 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Arkadiusz Fal <arek@arekf.net>
Date: Mon, 19 Oct 2026 23:26:41 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] Start playlist Play at a random video in shuffle mode (#988)

Play always started from the first video, so shuffle only affected the
rest of the session. When the queue mode is Shuffle, rotate the list to
a random start so the remaining videos stay queued.
---
 Yattee/Views/Playlist/UnifiedPlaylistDetailView.swift | 11 ++++++++++-
 1 file changed, 10 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/Yattee/Views/Playlist/UnifiedPlaylistDetailView.swift b/Yattee/Views/Playlist/UnifiedPlaylistDetailView.swift
index aa9af67a..e720b0ce 100644
--- a/Yattee/Views/Playlist/UnifiedPlaylistDetailView.swift
+++ b/Yattee/Views/Playlist/UnifiedPlaylistDetailView.swift
@@ -1221,8 +1221,17 @@ struct UnifiedPlaylistDetailView: View {
     private func playAll() {
         guard !videos.isEmpty, let appEnvironment else { return }
 
+        // In shuffle mode start from a random video (#988). Rotate rather than
+        // pick an index so every other video stays in the queue instead of
+        // being pushed to history as "already played".
+        var orderedVideos = videos
+        if appEnvironment.playerService.state.queueMode == .shuffle {
+            let start = Int.random(in: 0..<videos.count)
+            orderedVideos = Array(videos[start...] + videos[..<start])
+        }
+
         appEnvironment.queueManager.playFromList(
-            videos: videos,
+            videos: orderedVideos,
             index: 0,
             queueSource: queueSource,
             sourceLabel: title