How Random is Shuffle? (1 Viewer)

[The septic]

My computer is DJing an amazing set tonight. Is shuffle really that random? How come it seems to get in different moods? It's loving the rock tonight. The other night it couldn't get enough of metal/punk.

 

[shin shan]

yeah, i've had that before too!
i reckon it's genuinely random,
its just that when u've got shuffle on,u just get stuff u mightn't have thought to put on.
although, shuffle pretty frequently throws out spanish language stuff i put on last year in the middle of a decent run of tunes-

 

[GO]

The object of a five knuckle shuffle can be fairly random.As can their location.

 

[quaidox]

yep, same here derek, my windows shuffle seems to prefer certain albums at the expense of others, the way i get around it is to create a playlist with all your stuff in it, then put filters on the playlist to take out the albums it plays all the time.....still a pain in the hole to have to do this tho.....

 

[HMD]

whats wrong with listening to an album all the way through?

'sake

 

[quaidox]

too many albums, too little time....!

 

[kenn]

I have one of those radio tuner yokes for the van and Whilst driving a band on tour recently I came up with a good time passer. Each person had to plug in their mp3 player on shuffle for half an hour with no skipping allowed and the rest voted on how cool or shit the selections were. Some really funny terrible shit can come on. Bono singing solo, no instruments for example. The stuff you'd never want anyone else to hear. HOW WE LAUGHED

 

[kutter_krock]

Bono singing solo, no instruments for example. The stuff you'd never want anyone else to hear. HOW WE LAUGHED

that was your mp3 player wasn't it

 

[Jill Hives]

I think the shuffle in some players goes by how many times it's been played. So if you've had stuff on there for a while with no change up -- it might play some albums or songs more than others based on what you played during non-shuffle times. If that makes sense?

 

[kenn]

that was your mp3 player wasn't it

Yeah Roysh!!

 

[falsemonkey]

The shuffle on my player is bullshit. It constantly plays Dwarves or Slapshot, nothing else. Ever.

 

[Tony Ramone]

Maybe you should put something besides the Dwarves or Slapshot on it...

 

[Mormon Nailer]

i reckon it's genuinely random,

It will never play the same track twice in a row, which would happen now and again in a perfectly random situation.

 

[Space]

It's not random at all, it runs from a very specific algorithm. Gaussian distribution is pretty common but there's lots others.

 

[7 - No tomorrow]

It will never play the same track twice in a row, which would happen now and again in a perfectly random situation.

But does it not select 1 song from the 4,000 you have on there, then play another one?

i.e. if you left shuffle on, wouldn't it play your entire collection before going back to the full list and selecting at random all over again?

 

[Mormon Nailer]

But does it not select 1 song from the 4,000 you have on there, then play another one?

i.e. if you left shuffle on, wouldn't it play your entire collection before going back to the full list and selecting at random all over again?

I don't think so, it'll still lean towards items that are starred or played a lot.

 

[Space]

But does it not select 1 song from the 4,000 you have on there, then play another one?

i.e. if you left shuffle on, wouldn't it play your entire collection before going back to the full list and selecting at random all over again?

I don't think it does that, pretty cure there's no reason why the song from the collection can't be played twice just not consecutively.

 

[Space]

But does it not select 1 song from the 4,000 you have on there, then play another one?

i.e. if you left shuffle on, wouldn't it play your entire collection before going back to the full list and selecting at random all over again?

I don't think it does that, pretty cure there's no reason why the song from the collection can't be played twice just not consecutively.

 

[Scientician 0.8]

My old mp3 player had shuffle + no repeats, which was deadly. I find shuffle on its own on a lot of those devices seems to plow the same furrow often.

 

[Mormon Nailer]

I don't think it does that, pretty cure there's no reason why the song from the collection can't be played twice just not consecutively.

I don't think it does that, pretty cure there's no reason why the song from the collection can't be played twice just not consecutively.

Heh heh