jhericurl21

What sorta pattern does it use?It cant be completely random, when ever i use it,it sometimes sticks to the same beat(hiphop) but a different artist over the track. Or it stays with the same artist and a different song/beat.

Temporary_User

Go into options, and you can switch the percentage of its suffle.
sounds to me you % is really low....

Derwood

I need to try that, cuz mine definitely doesn't play the whole list once before repeating songs on shuffle

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Peetster

Moved from Nonsense.

ZodGilla

There is no such thing as 'completely random' on a computer.

Silvy

--titled philosophy
is there such a thing as 'completely random' anywhere?
/-- tilted philosophy

Maybe you can take a look at this for a discussion of X11AMP's (xmms, winamp-look-a-like) shuffle algorithm:
click here

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LNCPapa

nice find on that link Silvy - an answer you can actually use

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punx1325

I wish there was something a little more random for the suffle feature. It seems to me, that the random fuction plays in a set pattern. I will commonly hear songs that I have recently played, but the songs I rarely play will never come up on random.

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strcrssd

There used to be a winamp program that "fixed" the shuffle problem. I can't remember the name of it. The user could rate the current song being played. Those with a high value were played more often than those with a low value.

It was a really neat learning algorithm.

Shame I can't remember the name of it (and a quick google search doesn't reveal anything promising).

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westothemax

I sort my playlist with the 'randomize' option a few times and then play straight through from the top of the list, instead of just using 'shuffle' on a list sorted in order. It's much better, I rarely ever get the same sequence of songs.

sabotage

I've found this method to be the best way as well when dealing with albums thrown together on a playlist.

kofspades

http://www.synapseai.com/index.asp

But it really didn't work too well for me. It hasn'be been developed on for quite some time.

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Spanxxx

as they said above. Shuffle the playlist, then play straight through. Turn off shuffle on the winamp window.

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Gimli

I had WinAmp play the same song twice in a row when on random (20 Gig library). At the time, that convinced me it truly was random. What do I know...