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[–] doctordevice@lemmy.ca 14 points 5 months ago (7 children)

I really don't get it. Users have been begging for a true random shuffle for years. It's not a hard thing to implement.

[–] GissaMittJobb@lemmy.ml 3 points 5 months ago (6 children)

True random shuffle would be a terrible idea. No one wants the same track showing up multiple times in a row, which would not be uncommon in true random shuffle.

[–] intensely_human@lemm.ee 1 points 5 months ago (2 children)

You can make a truly random shuffle that doesn’t do that in like five pibes of code. This is the most pointless objection to random shuffle that I’ve ever seen.

[–] GissaMittJobb@lemmy.ml 1 points 5 months ago

I mean, not really. This is actually a non-trivial topic, and true random is a really bad label for what someone actually wants out of a shuffling algorithm.

See the following engineering blog post on the subject: https://engineering.atspotify.com/2014/02/how-to-shuffle-songs/

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