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by lelanthran 910 days ago
> This isn't just me, but all my friends too. We're all the time finding old songs we saved that have never once been played with shuffle, while it's played this one song 3 times in the same day.

That isn't "shuffle", that's "random".[1]

Normal people know what "shuffle" means. It's only recently (since the iPod?) that tech companies tried to blame the user when the user hit the "shuffle" button and got "random" instead.

[1] When you shuffle a deck of cards and then look at each one in turn, do you expect to see a King of Hearts three times in a row? Why on earth, then, is it acceptable to blame the user when they shuffle a list of songs and then get some songs player twice and some not at all.