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

I have the same complaint about the shuffle.
With over 8000 songs it seems I often hear the same song played and I have
realized that when you reboot your iPod or sync it then the shuffle will
start all over again so that tells me that there is no intelligence within
the iPod to keep track of the songs played and base that against the
shuffle.
In iTunes there is a option in preferences under the playback tab that lets
you set the ability of hearing the same artists or album but I tend to
believe it only applies if your playing music via iTunes and not the iPod.

David Sawyer
K1DRS -.- .---- -.. .-. ...
1998 Pearl Chaparral Beige Goldwing SE
http://www.davesgoldwing.com
----- Original Message -----
From: "Jules" <jules50uk@yahoo.co.uk>
To: <AppleiPod@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Friday, May 23, 2008 7:10 AM
Subject: Re: [Apple iPod] Shuffle, is it really?

> Can I set or change this randomness?
> Jules
>
> --- In AppleiPod@yahoogroups.com, Just Murray <lists@...> wrote:
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>> 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:
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>> > 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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