Does anybody know what the algorithm is that is used by HTC Audio Manager?
When I select All Songs & shuffle, most of the time I get the same song come up as 2nd in the list, & most of the rest of the songs, although in apparently random order, have shown up many times before. This is despite the fact that I have about 6GB of songs on there! If it were randomised properly then I wouldn't expect so much repetition.
I recall in my youth, using the random function on an Oric 1 "computer" produced the same number 1st time, everytime, unless I seeded a variable with the time. The random result would then be different everytime I tested, as though the algorithm needed something to start from that was not 0 or NULL. Just wondering if the HTC shuffle algorithm may have a similar issue.
When I select All Songs & shuffle, most of the time I get the same song come up as 2nd in the list, & most of the rest of the songs, although in apparently random order, have shown up many times before. This is despite the fact that I have about 6GB of songs on there! If it were randomised properly then I wouldn't expect so much repetition.
I recall in my youth, using the random function on an Oric 1 "computer" produced the same number 1st time, everytime, unless I seeded a variable with the time. The random result would then be different everytime I tested, as though the algorithm needed something to start from that was not 0 or NULL. Just wondering if the HTC shuffle algorithm may have a similar issue.
