Hi Anthony, > I ran Emacs three times in "full random" mode today and noticed the > selection of tracks was exactly the same in all cases (for more than > 20 tracks over a playlist of 500 tracks). I normally direct > random-playback-mode, where the lack of randomness is less obvious. > > The first test was done under Emacs 22.0.93 on FreeBSD, and the second > one under Emacs 22.0.95 on Debian; they were separated by a few hours. > In addition, Emacs had already run for quite a while before I started > Bongo. A third test produced the same results.
Thank you for testing this so thoroughly. > I'm not sure if the pseudo-random generator is supposed to > be so predictable. If it isn't randomly seeded when Emacs is started, that seems pretty strange. > (random t) gives more random numbers, though it seems to > be updated only every second or so (this should be good > enough for Bongo, though). Probably we shold call `(random t)' only once. I'm not sure where, though. Maybe we should just put it at the top level? Would that not work? > Early testing has displayed a non-predictable behaviour in > full random mode What is full random mode? -- Daniel Brockman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> _______________________________________________ bongo-devel mailing list [email protected] http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bongo-devel
