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Not mentioned but I think the randomness is also not equally weighted, 5 star songs will show up way more then lower rated songs. A few years back someone gath
by Steko 14y ago
Not mentioned but I think the randomness is also not equally weighted, 5 star songs will show up way more then lower rated songs. A few years back someone gathered a large dataset of shuffles and plays with songs clipped to a second or less.
- jopt 14y agoI find that hard to believe. The songs are actually "shuffled," in the same sense as a deck of cards is. One a song is "drawn" from the shuffled deck, it is not put back until the deck is exhausted and shuffled again. So in any shuffle, each song must show up exactly once. There's a setting in iTunes DJ, however, to "play higher rated songs more often."
- Steko 14y agoYep thanks, I was confusing features there. This appears to be the article I was remembering (caveat: it's from way back in 2005): http://www.omninerd.com/articles/How_Much_Does_iTunes_Like_My_Five_Star_Songs http://www.omninerd.com/articles/How_Much_Does_iTunes_Like_M...