Hello, On 20/02/14 08:22, Daniel Cartron wrote: > Hi, > > I would like to know how works the random option. Does it makes a > random choice for each new song that will be played, or does it > randomly sort the playlist ant then use this sorted list till the end? > > I already had several songs played more than twice in a week, that > should not happen with a 30,000+ playlist.
It depends on the number of songs played, but having a song selected twice, even with such a huge playlist, is surprisingly likely. If you have a playlist of 30000 songs and you play 205 randomly chosen songs, you have over 50% probability of playing a song twice. For 300 songs, the probability is over 75%. See the birthday paradox on wikipedia, for example: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Birthday_problem Regards, P.S. This message being otherwise completely useless, you might want to consider it an extended "this list ain't dead" email :) _______________________________________________ Sonata-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.berlios.de/mailman/listinfo/sonata-users
