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by baddox 5068 days ago
Would you ever want the same song to play twice in a row? How about 10 times in a row?
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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.

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.