• intensely_human@lemm.ee
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    1 year ago

    You can definitely make a truly random shuffle that doesn’t play the same song twice within a gap of ten songs.

    You just make a list of all the song IDs that aren’t in the last ten played, and grab an item at a random index.

    Randomness is a texture not a shape. Dice are random despite only being able to present six outcomes.

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      1 year ago

      But then it is not truly random, that is the point.

      The same song 10 times in a row also has a chance of happening in a truly random list.

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        1 year ago

        Random pick without replacement is no less random than random pick with replacement. You just have a continuously smaller pool to pick from.

        It’s absolutely possible to have better randomness/shuffle without repeating songs so often.

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        1 year ago

        there exist other random distributions than the uniform distribution