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Originally Posted by lantsalot
Yea what is up with that shuffle thing, in a folder of like 150 songs it plays the same 15 over and over....
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A lot of sowftwae has really poor shuffle algorithms, so you get certain patterns over time. If you don't frequently cycle music, start from a different sorting method, or just plain listen to a lot of music, you'll start to notice it.
I had a sandisk MP3 player in 2008 that would have one single shuffle method. I could get it to kind of shuffle differently if I sorted by artist or genre instead of just songs, but it was bad.
Randomness / RNG is really hard to code, surprisingly. Computers don't like random. Most methods also require a "seed" or some form of info for the random algorithm to start off of. Usually it's time, like time since startup, or system time. Which makes it easy to manipulate or for patterns to form.
/nerdrant