A new feature went live on the FrameAlbum site today; ‘shuffle images’.

The current system groups all the photos from a single source channel, such as Flickr, together and then orders them chronologically by posting date.  So if you have a Picasa channel and a Flickr channel on your frame you will see all the Picasa photos in order by date and then all the Flickr photos.  This will continue to be the default.

However, if you would like to see your photos ‘all mixed together’ you may choose to activate the ‘shuffle images’ feature on your frame.  When shuffle images is active all of your photos will be sent to your frame in random order mixing all your channels together in no particular sequence.  It also works if you have only a single channel on your frame.

If you prefer to keep seeing your photos the way they are now you do not need to do anything, the feed will be unchanged.

If you would like to activate this feature simply log into the FrameChannel website and edit the details of your frame.  Click the button next to the green light on the ‘Shuffle Images’ option and save your changes.  That’s it!

It may take awhile for the changes to appear on your frame so don’t be concerned if you don’t see the new sequence right away.

I hope you enjoy it!

In other news: I’ve fixed a long standing bug that caused issues for folks with large numbers of channels or frames.  The display will now wrap around to a new row rather than continue off the right side of the screen.