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

Can I set or change this randomness?
Jules

--- In AppleiPod@yahoogroups.com, Just Murray <lists@...> wrote:
>
> 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
> "Microsoft - Which end of the stick do you want today?"
> -- Unknown
>
> 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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