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How to shuffle songs? - Spotify Engineering (engineering.atspotify.com)

submitted 4 days ago by [email protected] to c/programming

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This (old) post details how to interfere with randomness to make it feel more random to the end user.

This reminded me of how many games “cheat” in a similar way to make critical hits seem more fair (increase the probability when it has not triggered for too long and decrease it when it just triggered)

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[–] [email protected] 17 points 4 days ago (1 children)

I don't understand the purpose of Spotify posting a complete work of fiction like this. There's nothing random about their Shuffle setting, nothing at all. There's a reason third-party sites that serve no other purpose than to shuffle Spotify playlists exist.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 4 days ago

Well, no one‘s saying Spotifys implementation is any good. But the theory that true randomness doesn’t always feel random still stands true. Most music player/streaming apps implement this in some way. Some better, some worse.