kdf Wrote: > From Slim/DataStores/DBI/Datamodel: > > our %sortRandomMap = ( > > 'SQLite' => 'RANDOM()', > 'mysql' => 'RAND()', > ); > > The above is what slimserver uses to draw up a random order for song > selection. > If you have a problem with the randomness, you might have to take this > one up with Larry Wall :) > > -kdf
Can I assume it samples (with replacement, over a uniform probability function) songs at random from the list of all songs, such that an album with twice as many songs as another is twice as likely to be selected in any given draw? -- Mike Anderson 'FREE RADICAL RADIO!' (http://nvo.com/cd) Hours of free radical MP3s. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Mike Anderson's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=1705 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=19696 _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
