by DroidFreak » Sat Sep 12, 2015 1:25 pm
There are two primary features I want in a music player. The first is support for multiple genres, and MediaMonkey is one of the only music players I know that has it. The second is the ability to have a random shuffling of songs. You wouldn't think that would be rare, but it really is and I'm getting the suspicion that MediaMokey's shuffle isn't random (with no option to disable the non-random elements).
Specifically, it seems to prioritize songs from the same album as songs that were recently played. For instance, I played one track a couple of time earlier this week and the next 2 random song it chose were from the same "album" (It's actually the Newgrounds audio portal "album" which isn't a real album but MediaMonkey doesn't know that). It's not entirely possible that this happened at random, but with only 12 songs from that "album" in my library of 800 the odds are slim of it happening by chance (over 4000:1). Since then I have noticed some similar tendencies that make me fairly sure that MediaMonkey is in fact tailoring the shuffle algorithm to music that it thinks I like (based on very spotty/incomplete data). What I would actually like is for it to just pick songs at random (unless I tell it not to).
Is there any way to disable the non-random shuffling behavior? I can't find anything in the settings. If not, is there an addon (or could someone make one) to disable it? It's an incredibly simple request since it's basically just shortcutting the the complex bureaucratic shuffle mechanism and hooking me up with a track chosen via a simple RNG instead.
There are two primary features I want in a music player. The first is support for multiple genres, and MediaMonkey is one of the only music players I know that has it. The second is the ability to have a [b]random[/b] shuffling of songs. You wouldn't think that would be rare, but it really is and I'm getting the suspicion that MediaMokey's shuffle isn't random (with no option to disable the non-random elements).
Specifically, it seems to prioritize songs from the same album as songs that were recently played. For instance, I played one track a couple of time earlier this week and the next 2 random song it chose were from the same "album" (It's actually the Newgrounds audio portal "album" which isn't a real album but MediaMonkey doesn't know that). It's not entirely possible that this happened at random, but with only 12 songs from that "album" in my library of 800 the odds are slim of it happening by chance (over 4000:1). Since then I have noticed some similar tendencies that make me fairly sure that MediaMonkey is in fact tailoring the shuffle algorithm to music that it [b]thinks[/b] I like (based on very spotty/incomplete data). What I would actually like is for it to just pick songs at random (unless I tell it not to).
Is there any way to disable the non-random shuffling behavior? I can't find anything in the settings. If not, is there an addon (or could someone make one) to disable it? It's an incredibly simple request since it's basically just shortcutting the the complex bureaucratic shuffle mechanism and hooking me up with a track chosen via a simple RNG instead.