iTunes Party Shuffle
So, I’ve long suspected iTunes of being not truly random when put into any kind of shuffle especially Party Shuffle mode. This morning, though, something happened that I can’t believe.
To preface this, here’s a screen shot of the details of my iTunes library:
So, you can see with almost 30,000 songs and 87 days worth of music that chances of two even remotely related songs coming up next to each other should be relatively slim.
But, check this out shot from my iTunes Party Shuffle window:
The same song played twice in a row! Now granted, it’s a great song that should be played multiple times, but still. I guess the odds of the same song playing twice are about 1 in 29,029 (the same as any specific song playing right after the first Karen), but still very surprising.
In iTunes preferences under the Playback tab, there is an option for “Smart Shuffling” that supposedly reduces the chances of songs from the same artist or from the same album being played sequentially. I have that setting all the way to “less likely” but not only did we get the same album and the same artist, but the same song too.
The fact that I’ve just written this much about the occasion probably means that I spend a little too much time obsessing about my music collection (or maybe that I Party Shuffle a little too often).