[jere]

>Users don't want a random playlist.

Really? Because I couldn't stand it if, after listening to my playlist several times, I could predict the exact order of the songs. That would be extremely boring, personally. In fact, that's the exact complaint of the user who asked the question:

>This frustrates me to no end because I like to listen to my music randomly, but I have a few favourite songs that I always start out with.

[baddox]

Would you ever want the same song to play twice in a row? How about 10 times in a row?

[jere]

Preferably, no. But even if that was a problem, it would only be an occasional one. The predictable playlist would get on my nerves all the time.

I suppose you'll then lecture me on how a random playlist has such undesirable properties.

But I would have to disagree. Writing a psuedo-random shuffle mode that doesn't play songs twice in a row (or even one that doesn't repeat a single song in your playlist) is trivial.

[jrockway]

The probability of that happening decreases so quickly that it's not a realistic concern.

Incidentally, today I had some song stuck in my head so I just listened to it on repeat for a while.