Mike Anderson Wrote: > I'm curious how random the "Random Song Mix" feature is. Is it truly > (pseudo)random? > > I ask this because I frequently find that a random mix will select two > songs off the same album within a short span of songs, even though I > have quite a few albums (more than 600). > > I haven't done any statistical testing to detect any non-randomness, > but I suspect there's something going on. Why would that be at all surprising to get two songs from the same album within a "short span"? You'd need a lot more intelligence than just randomization to avoid it.
Then again, you could be onto something. There have been inumerable bad attempts at implementing shuffling algorithms that don't give even distributions. It can be a surprisingly difficult "simple" problem. Interesting Read: http://cigital.com/papers/download/developer_gambling.php -- JJZolx Jim ------------------------------------------------------------------------ JJZolx's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=10 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=19696 _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
