In my recent explorations of the freeamp playlist code, I discovered
something very interesting. There are five separate places where
random_shuffle is called, all of them pertaining to shuffling the playlis
or adding items to a shuffled list. Three of these functions use my_rand
as a parameter to random_shuffle, where my_rand is a small function that
seeds and uses the OS default rand() function. However, the two most used
functions do not use this, but instead use the STL default random
generator, which never gets seeded. This results in the shuffle operation
shuffling the same list the same way every time! The interesting thing is
that these functions used to use my_rand, but that got commented out. Is
there a reason behind this?
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=D ave
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