Comment on Spotify says its best developers haven't written a line of code since December, thanks to AI
Gullible@sh.itjust.works 2 weeks agoNo, that’s just random being random. In order for something truly random to feel less random to the average person, you have to reduce the repetition.
This is the difference between randomly choosing songs and randomly choosing songs without repetition.
Both are random but the later is much better for humans.
(It’s like in statistics problems choosing colored balls from a box with or without replacement.)
Idk why the donwvotes. This is how these players implement randomness, because people don’t actually want a random shuffle most times.
Maybe people disliked my fun fact, maybe I came off the wrong way, maybe people took offense at my typo. It doesn’t matter much. I comment for me! (This comment included)
kinsnik@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
and that is what spotify actually does: …atspotify.com/…/shuffle-making-random-feel-more-…
grue@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
<sigh>… And here I am, expecting “shuffle” to be a random ordering without repetition at all, like a silly person apparently.
blackbeans@lemmy.zip 2 weeks ago
This, the Shuffle function should play every song exactly once, just in a random order. This is what cd players have been supporting since the late '80s.
It is a very simple algorithm but Spotify turned it into something complex that barely works. By default, in large playlists, it will heavily prioritize some songs while others are almost never heard. People have complained about this for years and there is an option in the settings for it now, although I am not yet sure if that setting really disables all of the “smart” algorithms Spotify has associated with shuffle.
kinsnik@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
that is exactly what it does
the fewer repeats is for when you listen to the same playlist multiple times, not for the sequence itself