Re: [Apple iPod] Shuffle, is it really?

itunes has controls over how random the shuffle is. u place your 200
or so songfs in it and either play then inj a row, or shuffle.
~KM
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On May 21, 2008, at 8:51 AM, Jules wrote:

> Can anyone explain what Shuffle does. I would assume that it would
> randomly pick tunes
> (when shuffling Tunes) but again and again I find that out of a
> choice of nearly 7000 songs it
> will most often pick more than one from the same album within the
> first half hour of playing.
> How does the programming behind shuffle work does anyone know. Is it
> trying to be clever
> and pick some tracks from the same albums to create a sort of pseudo
> random conformity
> (that sounded good eh?) or what?

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