Eh, unexpected clustering is sort of okay but again, it's what people respond to versus what they think they will. I've written some scripts so I can dredge pl

Eh, unexpected clustering is sort of okay but again, it's what people respond to versus what they think they will. I've written some scripts so I can dredge playlists off of some radio stations that are hooked up to the Internet as part of a quixotic little project of mine and I've gone through, looked for dupes, etc. Let's say we're doing new wave (sure to start an argument there). What people seem to dislike is ABC, The Buggles, the Cure, Duran Duran, Ebn Ozn, Fra Lippo Lippi, Duran Duran, etc. Just having a gap between there feels insufficiently random. Clustering apparently ought to feel deliberate. Now think back to when you had actual DJs selecting tracks on the radio. One of the techniques was "Two from a particular band." Not two from a band with some tracks between them. Similarly, one can do a "Four tracks from 1994" to provide a cluster in time, another technique I've heard. If anything, the more metadata you have, the more you can provide short runs of something. Microgenres, for example.