mcw Wrote: > I believe it's hard to get a pseudo random number generator to produce a > sequence without patterns. I'm not talking about random number generators. I'm talking about the behavior of the Random Mix plugin. Because of the way it operates:
- Pick N random songs (I forget the default number - 10?) - Play one - Add one, so there are still N in the playlist It's the last part that is easy to screw up. It's probably doing selection with replacement, as Mike suggested. So it can easily replay the same song in the same session. Perhaps even back-to-back. It wouldn't be difficult to keep track of what's been played, so that it doesn't play again, but I don't know if the database capabilities offered to plugins by SlimServer are up to that sort of thing. -- 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
