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Originally Posted by praveen_v  Veb I dont think the random feature will be much different in other HU's. If you select next, they may play the next random song but still they might play a song repetadly. |
I think the same. Can Kenwood/Alpine users confirm how the Random feature works in their HUs?
My guess is that the software would randomize the songs based on last 'n' listening sessions. i.e. if out of 100 songs, you listen to 25 most often, these would have a higher probability of being repeated 'randomly' as opposed to the other 75 songs.
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Originally Posted by praveen_v I dont know about IPod, but my media players(an iriver and my sony ericsson walkman) do not play in perfect random mode without any repeat of the songs. And my guess is that most of the HU's will keep repeating the same song in random mode. The probablity of repetiton increases as you keep listening to the list, meaning there will be more repeat of songs as you progress through the list |
In my iPod and Nokia E50, the random feature is quite random, to put it mildly. It plays some songs which even I forgot were a part of my collection. Though this might be assumed as true randomization function,it can get bugging at times as it plays really old songs from my collection, which sometimes I dont prefer/not in the mood to listen to.