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

[From: Ben Roe]

Surely the music player should shuffle the list, not just play random tracks from it? I don't think anyone wants random duplicates in one session.

Ben

On 25 Mar 2010, at 18:47, ianaré sévi wrote:

> 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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