I seem to remember some recent (eg 2005/2006) discussions in the online music world about a "glitch" (or issue, or something) leading to more songs being repeated on the iTunes shuffler feature....and that folks were feeling the shuffler wasn't as "random" as they were led to believe. That said, I'm not sure if there are any serious analyses of that "issue" or the technology involved beyond the reports in the MSM, though. :( -rf On 9/17/06 5:00 PM, "Stephanie Jo Kent" <kentcon@sover.net> 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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