[iamnadahacker]

I've wondered this since the days of Rdio(RIP) — is it possible that music services are weighting the probability of songs based on cost-to-them to play?

I play Spotify all day from my library (~10k songs) and it _seems_ like it will always choose a live version of a song (if available) over the album version and it will consistently play 1 specific song from an album every single time (seemingly ignoring the other 10). There's this one Elliott Smith song that will play every_single_time, despite having 5 albums in the library.

Totally agree with the article's comments about perceptions vs realities of "randomness", but it seems that there could be other "business" weightings at work.