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A simpler time (lemmy.world)

submitted 7 months ago by [email protected] to c/simpsonsshitposting

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A simpler time

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Spotify however creates a Playlist of a a subset of songs (this size has changed, at one point in time it was 20 tracks, but IIRC it's up to 50 now). As each plays, the last track in the Playlist is "randomly" chosen for that last spot with no context of recent listening history.

This assertion doesn't really pass the smell test - what do you base it on?

For reference, here's a classic article on how Spotify used to tackle the problem of randomness in their shuffle: https://engineering.atspotify.com/2014/02/how-to-shuffle-songs/

That was 2014 though, so who knows. Still, your assertion seems highly questionable.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 7 months ago (2 children)

You can watch it happen in real time.

Select your library and click the play random then go to your now playing Playlist and it has a list of upcoming tracks. Each time a song ends the last song is updated.

The current Playlist block may have context, but anything outside the currently playing seems to just randomly select songs from your overall library.

And I've read this article about a dozen times over the years. I honestly don't think Spotify knows what people want in random which is why you can see people complain about their randomness from their inception til today.

IIRC this video goes over the chunking at some point https://youtu.be/OdLyKETk5o0

[–] [email protected] 5 points 7 months ago

Can confirm. My 2k playlist probably cycles 2x through the first 200-300 songs and it sprinkles some older songs inbetween.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

I'll vouch for this too. When I shuffle on Spotify, it will repeat itself guaranteed after a set of songs. Not just play one again by coincidence - repeat the entire list of songs I just heard in the same order.