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Re:Ask HN: Why are modern music players so bad at playing mu... by ghostly_s on Wednesday July 03, 2019 @02:18PM (#20346988)
Um, no? I would argue most people would say they want 1 or 2, and the rest of those are mostly things that developers convince themselves are adequate substitutes for these things.
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Re:Ask HN: Why are modern music players so bad at playing mu... by Godel_unicode on Wednesday July 03, 2019 @02:27PM (#20347107)
We made a music system for the office I worked at a few years back; all of these options came up as possible meanings of "random". We ended up with a system where people could vote on which random they wanted, and all of them got used over the course of a few months. 3 and 4 were very popular.

It also sparked a lively debate about whether people actually wanted what they said they wanted or were just being difficult.

People are weird and English is imprecise.

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