return2ozma@lemmy.world to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 1 day agoSpotify says its best developers haven't written a line of code since December, thanks to AItechcrunch.comexternal-linkmessage-square53fedilinkarrow-up1222arrow-down111
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minus-squareNOT_RICK@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up129·1 day agoIs this why my wife is constantly complaining that her playlists constantly keep playing the same songs over and over?
minus-squareF/15/Cali@threads.net@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up6arrow-down2·1 day agoNo, that’s just random being random. In order for something truly random to feel less random to the average person, you have to reduce the repetition.
minus-squareEager Eagle@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·edit-25 hours agoIdk why the donwvotes. This is how these players implement shuffle, because people don’t actually want a random shuffle most times.
minus-squarekinsnik@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4·1 day agoand that is what spotify actually does: https://engineering.atspotify.com/2025/11/shuffle-making-random-feel-more-human
minus-squaregrue@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up7·23 hours ago<sigh>… And here I am, expecting “shuffle” to be a random ordering without repetition at all, like a silly person apparently.
minus-squarekinsnik@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·21 hours agothat is exactly what it does the fewer repeats is for when you listen to the same playlist multiple times, not for the sequence itself
Is this why my wife is constantly complaining that her playlists constantly keep playing the same songs over and over?
Fuck yeah, it is.
No, that’s just random being random. In order for something truly random to feel less random to the average person, you have to reduce the repetition.
Idk why the donwvotes. This is how these players implement shuffle, because people don’t actually want a random shuffle most times.
and that is what spotify actually does: https://engineering.atspotify.com/2025/11/shuffle-making-random-feel-more-human
<sigh>… And here I am, expecting “shuffle” to be a random ordering without repetition at all, like a silly person apparently.
that is exactly what it does
the fewer repeats is for when you listen to the same playlist multiple times, not for the sequence itself