Ok, something is FUBAR with iPods’s shuffle algorithm and has been for several years. I used my cousin’s 1G Mini for a year and now I use an 4G Nano. The shuffle feature never ever plays some songs and will play back to back duplicates of others. For over a year I thought this was an issue with the playlist. It holds over 1000 songs and that takes a long time to work through and it does contain duplicates that might make a song appear more often.
This is shown to be crap by the new Genius feature that can find other songs similar to a selected target song and generate a new playlist on the fly. This feature regularly comes up with at least one song I have never heard either iPod play and several songs that don’t get played very often. WTF, is up with the iPod shuffle algorithm. Did they let a first year CS summer intern design it 5 yr ago and never touch it again?
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