Re:Ask HN: Why are modern music players so bad at playing mu...
by TheOtherHobbes on Wednesday July 03, 2019 @02:11PM
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Which is why it was called "shuffle" and not "random".
Shuffle (mostly) used to do what you expected when you had a medium like CD with a small number of tracks.
As the number of available tracks grew, the definition became less and less obvious.
With a service like Spotify, you could design an entire multi-page specification to cover all the different possible "shuffle" options you could give users - all of which would be useful in at least some settings.
Instead of which users get one button and some guessing.
Shuffle (mostly) used to do what you expected when you had a medium like CD with a small number of tracks.
As the number of available tracks grew, the definition became less and less obvious.
With a service like Spotify, you could design an entire multi-page specification to cover all the different possible "shuffle" options you could give users - all of which would be useful in at least some settings.
Instead of which users get one button and some guessing.