countable nouns that are used with a or an or a number and have a plural: car, soldier.The chances are that the latter has some artificial bias, which is, simply explained, what Spotify does.MACMILLAN DICTIONARY FOR ADVANCED LEARNERS OF AMERICAN ENGLISHīoaton Public Library S No1P«8H. This is not that unlikely to happen whereas may appear more random, but the fact that there is not a single sub-sequence of even 2 length in order makes this anomolous. In a random shuffle order, will appear non-random because the sub-sequence is ordered. The problem iTunes and Spotify have had with randomness not appearing random is songs connected to eachother (mostly by the same artist) appearing next to eachother. A shuffle is a random ordering of a list, so every element of that list will appear once per cycle but in a random order. Personally, I would like the option of both a true random shuffle and a true randomizer that blocks the last few songs played.Įxcept a random shuffle is still a shuffle. There is also the issue of playlists not reshuffling automatically, which introduces perceived biases that aren't there. This is not the only function the shuffle algorithm uses, and other functions not mentioned here will result in certain biases that works against what's written here (other functions include higher bias for recently added songs and supposedly there's a function that makes genres not jump too far between songs). So right now, the only two cases where we get a truly (pseudo)random shuffle is if either a) every song on your playlist is from the same artist and album (I hear you, Jeff Buckley fans) or if you have an unhealthy obsession with one-hit wonders and every song is from a unique artist. The reasoning behind this is that some people reacted to, after having listened to the same 15 song playlist for 14 hours, that sometimes the same artist's song would appear twice, or even thrice, in a row and such an anomoly must mean that it's not random! Except in a random distribution this is very likely to happen and humans are shit at distinguishing random patterns from ordered lists. If you have 3 songs on this playlist by The Police, then Roxanne, Every Breath You Take and Don't Stand So Close To Me should appear fairly evenly far apart and never right next go eachother.Įvery song from the same artist does a similar internal shuffle with regards to albums, so your 90's fueled feverdream of a playlist called Boyzone and nothing but the Boyzone should see that roughly every 6th song will be from their debut album Said and Done while songs from their 2018 "what were they even thinking oh right a bucketload of money" 3 song yet 40 minute album Thank You & Goodnight should appear roughly every 12th song. It is designed to feel more random, but it isn't.īasically how it works is that it distributes songs of each artist at an even frequency, so if you have 30 songs on your playlist and 10 songs are from, say, Taylor Swift, because you wanna say you're a Bad Bitch TM but with the gravitas and swagger of a white sub-urban 14 year old, you should expect roughly every 3rd song be a Taylor Swift song, and while there is some randomness to allow 2 songs in a row be a Taylor Swift song, it should be relatively uncommon and 3 in a row should practically never happen.
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