pippin;298814 Wrote: > Do you plan to encrypt something with the titles in your playlist? > Otherwise even rand() should be good enough for shuffling. >
It's not the sorted order of an individual playlist that is the problem; I totally agree that rand() is good enough for that. What I really dislike is correlation in the successive random number sequences. For example, I like to use "shuffle songs" on my late 2004 4th gen iPod in my car; however, if I don't use the iPod over the weekend, it resets itself and on Monday morning, I select "shuffle songs" again. The new "random" playlist is strongly correlated with the last "random" playlist - I hear largely the same songs in not too far off from the same order. This is a classic case of correlation in the RNG. So, I was curious if the SqueezeCenter shuffle algorithm uses a good, uncorrelated RNG or not (and yes, I'm well aware that correlation is only one of many tests to determine the goodness of an RNG). -- kmr ------------------------------------------------------------------------ kmr's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=10664 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=47242 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
