What actually seems to happen though in nearly all my devices is that when I get to the end of B, the device picks another track from [playlist - AB] and iterates over this until [playlist - songs played] is empty.
And it doesn't do this randomly, either. At least, my stereo doesn't. A few months after I first got it, I spent a morning generating random sequences and comparing them. Given 5 12-track album with 100 or so sequences generated from each, the percentage distribution for the first track played was something like:
(numbers not exact because I'm going from memory here. Point is, it wasn't random.)
I always meant to do a more thorough analysis of the full sequences (particularly because I'm almost sure that there's some kind of 'if the previous track is 7, the next track is more likely to be 2' effect going on), or at least give the dataset to someone who was capable of doing so, but I never got around to it...
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Date: January 9th, 2004 06:05 am (UTC)From:And it doesn't do this randomly, either. At least, my stereo doesn't. A few months after I first got it, I spent a morning generating random sequences and comparing them. Given 5 12-track album with 100 or so sequences generated from each, the percentage distribution for the first track played was something like:
1 15%
2 5%
3 5%
4 5%
5 5%
6 20%
7 15%
8 5%
9 5%
10 10%
11 5%
12 5%
(numbers not exact because I'm going from memory here. Point is, it wasn't random.)
I always meant to do a more thorough analysis of the full sequences (particularly because I'm almost sure that there's some kind of 'if the previous track is 7, the next track is more likely to be 2' effect going on), or at least give the dataset to someone who was capable of doing so, but I never got around to it...