[maemo-developers] N900 / Media Player / Random play really random?

[From: ianaré sévi]

I haven't seen the code that controls the randomness of songs, but in
a truly random sequence of numbers, repetition is to expected. Another
way of putting it is that patterns naturally arise out of randomness.

There had been similar discussions with the ipod when it came out. I
believe that Apple has since made the random generator LESS random, by
having it ignore duplicates.

- ianaré sévi



2010/3/25 Frédéric Ledain <frederic.ledain at onmobile.com>:
> Hi,
>
> I am using Nokia N900 with something like 1 500 mp3 in it.
>
> I am listening to random music, and I can observe that same tracks are
> "often" played.
>
> I understand this is difficult to spot concrete information, but this
> feeling is persistent.
>
> For instance, in 2 listening sessions (around 1 hour each), I will
> listen to "several" same tracks.
>
> One more example here: while writing these lines, I can hear a track
> just listened this morning (session < 1 hour).
>
> Are there any other N900 users sharing this same feeling?
>
> Thanks in advance.
>
> Frederic
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