Toby Dickenson wrote:
> The random shuffle code is here. Without having worked through all the
> details, it looks like it is using mysql to "order by RAND()"
>
> http://svn.slimdevices.com/7.0/trunk/server/Slim/Plugin/RandomPlay/Plugin.pm?revision=19572&view=markup
>   

AFAIK the 'shuffle' function of SC is *not* the same as the RandomPlay 
plugin.

> That is, mysql generates a random number for each matching track then
> returns them in the order of those random numbers. Unless I am mistaken
> that is not Fisher-Yates?
>
> Anyone know what rng algorithm is used by mysql, and how is it seeded? My
> google skills seem to be lacking.
Dunno.

Regards,
Peter

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