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 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
