[vebmetal]

Originally Posted by praveen_v

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

Originally Posted by nishantgandhi

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.

I wish it was that simple. But it's not repeating songs that I listen to a lot. (That may however have been a feature that some people would have liked). What it does is that after I hear a song (regardless of whether I have heard it 20 times on the HU or just that once) it often repeats it and plays it back with a gap of one other "ranodm" song in between. So to put it simply, it often does something like this: (With the > arrow representing the change of a new random song using my above-mentioned workaround):

• "Metallica - One" > "RHCP - One Hot Minute" > "Metallica - One"

The probability of this happening (as I have explained before in this thread somewhere) is very very very minute (on a 8GB drive filled with music). But yet this happens to me at least once or twice in a 2 hour listening session. So to me it's clearly a bug.

Originally Posted by Eddy

I have a Pio4050 in my Swift and a Sony Explod in my Ikon. The Sony HU is much more intelligent while playing random songs, including going to a random track on the press of the next button (of course, when in random mode).

Thanks for letting us know. It's a shame that Sony Xplod despite its notoriety in the ICE world can get a feature right, and the VFM kings Pioneer cannot.