Hi Steph your would have to ask the Apple engineers about how they build the algorithm...you need to ask about probabilities or setting for RND (random in computer programing) settings. You could also test it and find the relative frequencies of songs inclusions. This would give you quantitative answers. For qualitative answers I would suggest asking musicians who support being paid excess amounts of money and other musicians who might support free music. Also ask musicians who think they might benefit by their song being in one of your random plays i.e musicians seeking exposure but perhaps not money. Peter On 17-Sep-06, at 5:00 PM, Stephanie Jo Kent wrote:
Ok. Here's the deal. I'm really dumb about a lot of this stuff. I just updated iTunes to 7.0. Did a Party Shuffle. I'm wondering about the "randomness factor". Specifically, the chances that a sequence of several songs would fall into sync?
I'm interested in qualitative answers as well as any quantitative results. For instance, is there some snoop software that reads my measurable statistics in relation to online music?
steph http://www.reflexivity.us
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