• doctordevice@lemmy.ca
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    1 year ago

    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
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      1 year ago

      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
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        1 year ago

        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.

        • intensely_human@lemm.ee
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          1 year ago

          Lines of code. Lines. Not pibes.

          In unrelated news, I hate autocorrect. Pibes is not a fucking word.

      • doctordevice@lemmy.ca
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        1 year ago

        I disagree that that’s what it means, IMO “shuffle” explicitly means each track exactly once. Pedantry aside, what I meant was a truly randomized order when you shuffle a playlist. It’s a major critique of Spotify among users and has been for a very long time.

      • Pelicanen@sopuli.xyz
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        1 year ago

        I think the idea is that the play order for the entire playlist is shuffled on each loop, so you play all songs in one order, then it shuffles, and you play all songs again but in a different order.