Re: Shuffling and unshuffling (was Re: ID3 tag question)

Dave Sherohman wrote:
>1)  It allows any arbitrary song to come up twice before all others
>have been played once.  (This is, of course, a matter of personal
>preference.  Me, I prefer the randomness.  I get the distinct
>impression that you prefer to have everything played with guaranteed
>even frequency.)

I'm with Dean (or at least against Dave) on this -- I like
sequentially playing a random-ordered playlist much better than Dave's
fully-random selection method. That's one thing I like so much better
about the Slimp3 over most consumer CD players -- the CD players use
Dave's method, so I end up hearing a few songs many times, while not
hearing other songs at all.  That gets tedious.

>Grab a copy of XMMS (or WinAmp, if that's the way you swing).  Create
>a playlist with 5 songs, ordered A, B, C, D, E.  Turn the "random"
>switch on.  Hit 'next' a few times.  Doing this just now, I got the
>play order E A C B D E B D A C B A.  Always random.

I notice that in your example, nothing repeats until all have played
(EACBD EBDAC BA).... it looks to me like the "reshuffle at the end of
the playlist" method, rather than the total random selection method
you're advocating.

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