1. Go to your folder where all your mp3 songs are.

[E equals MC2]

2. Skim play through one by one alphbetically or in any consistent sequential order.

3. You'll realize that you'll hear TONS of songs you haven't heard in YEARS!

4. Proof that random blows with any current mp3 players. (be it winamp, iTunes, etc)

Why is reproducing random so hard? It seems no one can get it after years and years.

 

[JDrake]

 

[Shawn]

???

 

[Kalvin00]

Originally posted by: joedrake

 

[ngvepforever2]

I just go to iTunes and put it in shuffle mode 🙂

Regards

ng

 

[E equals MC2]

Well, aside from your cookie, I'm wondering if there's a better way to random.. a third party plugin or at least some educated speculation on what it's so hard.

 

[Babbles]

The iTunes shuffle thing totally blows, at least on my PC. I have determined that ~3,000 songs I have on my PC, iTunes loves Phantom of the Opera and Aerosmith. I have heard songs from both of those back-to-back many, many times.

 

[FoxyProxy]

What's an MP3?

 

[BillyBatson]

you are very correct,i especially hate the random on ipods, sometimes it will play the same song 3 times in an hour
maybe random should be Random, then Random -minus songs played in that session, so that way at least things won't repeat

 

[Schfifty Five]

Originally posted by: FoxyProxy
What's an MP3?

don't play stupid to try and draw attention. That's really lame and pathetic.

 

[imported_LoKe]

The shuffle on my MP3 player works just fine.

 

[Schfifty Five]

OP, I guess you need to run the random thing millions of times to get a real accurate measure of it's randomness...lol.

 

[E equals MC2]

Originally posted by: BillyBatson
you are very correct,i especially hate the random on ipods, sometimes it will play the same song 3 times in an hour
maybe random should be Random, then Random -minus songs played in that session, so that way at least things won't repeat

At least iPod Shuffle's shuffle isn't bad because it's not a true random at all. It makes a predetermined random list which is static and plays that in sequential order.

I'd rather choose that than crappy 'live' shuffle where it plays same 50 songs out of 3000 over and over again.