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JVS Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jan-23-09 10:29 AM
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Mp3 player shuffle algorithms
Does it pick a random song each time it plays a news song (i.e. it is possible to repeat one song before playing all songs on the player), does it randomly pick a permutation and then play all of them, or does it pick the first song randomly then pick the second song randomly from the reduced pool of songs not yet played?
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taterguy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jan-23-09 10:33 AM
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1. It reads your thoughts and decides what you want to hear
Very advanced technology
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JVS Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jan-23-09 11:03 AM
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3. Don't lie!
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baldguy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jan-23-09 10:47 PM
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7. It picks what it wants to hear and makes you *believe* you wanted to hear it.
Very advanced marketing technology
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mcctatas Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jan-23-09 10:35 AM
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2. It's FM
*that's short for 'fucking magic'
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JVS Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jan-23-09 10:39 PM
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6. Is that how the ShamWow works too?
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PVnRT Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jan-23-09 11:24 AM
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4. I believe it just puts all songs in random order
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Iggo Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jan-23-09 12:02 PM
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5. Never thought about it before.
But now that I have, I'd say when you hit shuffle, it creates a single randomized playlist of all your songs, then plays from that list. I would also assume that the list is non-repetitive.

But I'm just guessing...
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