Surely the music player should shuffle the list, not just play random tracks from it? I don't think anyone wants random duplicates in one session.
Ben On 25 Mar 2010, at 18:47, ianaré sévi wrote: > I haven't seen the code that controls the randomness of songs, but in > a truly random sequence of numbers, repetition is to expected. Another > way of putting it is that patterns naturally arise out of randomness. > > There had been similar discussions with the ipod when it came out. I > believe that Apple has since made the random generator LESS random, by > having it ignore duplicates. > > - ianaré sévi > > > > 2010/3/25 Frédéric Ledain <frederic.led...@onmobile.com>: >> Hi, >> >> I am using Nokia N900 with something like 1 500 mp3 in it. >> >> I am listening to random music, and I can observe that same tracks are >> "often" played. >> >> I understand this is difficult to spot concrete information, but this >> feeling is persistent. >> >> For instance, in 2 listening sessions (around 1 hour each), I will >> listen to "several" same tracks. >> >> One more example here: while writing these lines, I can hear a track >> just listened this morning (session < 1 hour). >> >> Are there any other N900 users sharing this same feeling? >> >> Thanks in advance. >> >> Frederic >> _______________________________________________ >> maemo-developers mailing list >> maemo-developers@maemo.org >> https://lists.maemo.org/mailman/listinfo/maemo-developers >> > _______________________________________________ > maemo-developers mailing list > maemo-developers@maemo.org > https://lists.maemo.org/mailman/listinfo/maemo-developers _______________________________________________ maemo-developers mailing list maemo-developers@maemo.org https://lists.maemo.org/mailman/listinfo/maemo-developers
