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

[From: ianaré sévi]

The original message related to several sessions, so while the same
song will not play in the same session, over several sessions there
will be repeats, and/or clusters (an artist or style being played more
often).

Personally, I actually like this, as it gives me the illusion of the
computer 'choosing' to play a certain style.

But one way to avoid it  would be to keep a record of which songs were
played _between_ sessions, and not play them again untill all songs
are played.

A cool thing to do would be weigh by preference, for example a song
frequently skipped would be played less often.

- ianaré sévi



2010/3/25 Ben Roe <broe at dataviz.com>:
> 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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