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How to shuffle songs? - Spotify Engineering (engineering.atspotify.com)
submitted 3 days ago by pcouy@lemmy.pierre-couy.fr to c/programming@programming.dev
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This (old) post details how to interfere with randomness to make it feel more random to the end user.

This reminded me of how many games “cheat” in a similar way to make critical hits seem more fair (increase the probability when it has not triggered for too long and decrease it when it just triggered)

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[-] accideath@lemmy.world 8 points 3 days ago

Well, no one‘s saying Spotifys implementation is any good. But the theory that true randomness doesn’t always feel random still stands true. Most music player/streaming apps implement this in some way. Some better, some worse.

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