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More => Old Versions => JRiver Media Center 27 for Windows => Topic started by: iamthewalrus on January 08, 2021, 08:22:48 am
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My music collection has over 34k songs. It's made up of 513 different artists with 2,318 albums.
I've created a bunch of smartlists by genre, era, etc.
The main one I use has ~30k songs and I always select "Play (Shuffled)".
What amazes me is how lame the shuffle is. It always favors ~12 artists and certain albums of theirs. For example, it always plays a song from 1 single album by 1 artist. Every time. It got to the point that I excluded the artist from my smartlist.
Anyone else shuffle large smartlists and notice similar behavior?
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Since you use a smartlist, please try it with adding "Add new modifier" and select Shuffle.
Tested it 46k songs and the are shuffled different every time when I open the smartlist.
I don't know how play shuffled is programmed in MC, but I recall this behaviour from the old days when programming in C++ and VB.
The random function generated a random sequence, but this random sequence was always the same sequence. Back then we need to call this function like RANDOM(RANDOM(1000)).
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Thank you - giving it a go right now!