The second you try to inject any "intelligence" into it, you've committed Original Sin. Random means random.
If someone doesn't want to listen to Tom Petty this week, they can just hit Next when a Petty song comes on. In my car, that's just a thumb move on the steering wheel.
Every programming platform ever invented has a random() function. You take all the tracks in the playlist, or in my case, the library on my phone. You put them in random order, and play them. That's it.
Anyone who tells you this is hard is just trying to sell something. I don't want any smart algorithm picking songs for me; I just want all my stuff, randomly.
Apple Music is worse. “I see you’ve requested to hear less of Tom Petty’s ‘Free Falling,’ a song that makes you want to throw your phone into a well and return to the once-noble career of ‘mammoth hunter’? Great! We’ll only play it three times an hour? Don’t want to hear it at all? Let’s sneak five live versions onto your playlist? Oh, that doesn’t work for you? How about covers from bands that make you want to blow up the sun? You WILL listen.”
Wow, I said that 5 months ago. Anyhow:
The second you try to inject any "intelligence" into it, you've committed Original Sin. Random means random.
If someone doesn't want to listen to Tom Petty this week, they can just hit Next when a Petty song comes on. In my car, that's just a thumb move on the steering wheel.
Yup! Drives me crazy. I have a playlist of 1000 songs and it tends to play the same artist over and over.
Sometimes I manually go through my songs and find ones I forgot I had because the shuffle refuses to play them.
Every programming platform ever invented has a random() function. You take all the tracks in the playlist, or in my case, the library on my phone. You put them in random order, and play them. That's it.
Anyone who tells you this is hard is just trying to sell something. I don't want any smart algorithm picking songs for me; I just want all my stuff, randomly.
Yeah it's absurdly easy to implement.
Apple Music is worse. “I see you’ve requested to hear less of Tom Petty’s ‘Free Falling,’ a song that makes you want to throw your phone into a well and return to the once-noble career of ‘mammoth hunter’? Great! We’ll only play it three times an hour? Don’t want to hear it at all? Let’s sneak five live versions onto your playlist? Oh, that doesn’t work for you? How about covers from bands that make you want to blow up the sun? You WILL listen.”
My sister has U2’s new album play every time in the car when she starts it. I feel bad for her lol
Then maybe she shouldn’t have been Jack the Ripper in a previous life.