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No, I’m saying I want to hear every song in the list exactly once before any is repeated. Your summary is more generous than my definition.
by ilikehurdles 7y ago
No, I’m saying I want to hear every song in the list exactly once before any is repeated. Your summary is more generous than my definition.
- kstenerud 7y agoSo... You'd say that my summary gets you 80% of the way there?
- iforgotpassword 7y agoThat's shuffle, not random. Maybe randomized. With random, every song should have the same chance of being picked, which would technically allow the same song to play twice. If you'd let the player run for a decade, every song should have played about the same number of times. But this usually leads to people perceiving the feature as not being random enough. See Spotify for example: https://www.quora.com/Is-Spotifys-shuffle-feature-truly-random-I-keep-hearing-the-same-songs-in-my-library-too-often-for-it-to-be-a-mere-coincidence-Does-Spotify-use-some-kind-of-special-algorithm-to-determine-what-song-plays-If-so-why/answer/Mattias-Petter-Johansson https://www.quora.com/Is-Spotifys-shuffle-feature-truly-rand...
- IanCal 7y agoRandom has a lot of meanings, and you are picking a very specific one. It doesn't have to be uniformly distributed, for example, but relevant here is I don't think there's a problem describing a random shuffle as "random". It is playing a list in a random order.