[uxp8u61q]

Who said anything about hands? I'm trying to make an analogy between shuffling a deck and shuffling xkcd comics. I thought having a visual, physical analogue would perhaps help in seeing that randomness still exists in a shuffle.

[Karellen]

Sorry, the point I was trying to make was "shuffle" could possibly mean "re-shuffle after every track" - so you could still get the same track twice in a row.

(It was a bad way of stating it, that's on me)

[uxp8u61q]

Shuffling the whole playlist to choose a new song every time is no different than choosing uniformly from all songs every time. What would be the point? I can't tell what you are getting at.

[Karellen]

My point is that, for a not-unreasonable interpretation of "shuffle", it is the same as "random".

nvm