Random playlist plays rarely random ?

[Joris]

Hi,

(I experience this problem on my mac, but thought it wasn't better on other OS's...)

I’ve a 1700 music files (mp3) that I’d like to be played all randomly within VLC.
Now quit often I hear some numbers played again, more then 2, 3, 4 or more times,
While others in the same playing time* not even once.
(* playing time = VLC started and paused, when computer goes in sleepmode.
VLC stopped only when computer is reset, a rarely done action).

Ideal : all numbers played only once before cycling again.

Is there a way to increase (a system setting ?) this random-range-selection-function in software ?

Thanks.

[NicTheQuick]

Randomness does not mean that certain values will never repeat before every other number was put out.
There is nothing you can do on system level. Better look why VLC especially does it like this.

I found this Reddit post about shuffling in VLC: https://www.reddit.com/r/VLC/comments/n ... ot_random/

[NicTheQuick]

There seems to be an extensions that shuffles properly: https://addons.videolan.org/p/1154030/

[Joris]

Great help.

Thanks.

[Nituvious]

Have you tried adding hundreds of thousands of songs to your playlist to skew the statistics?

[tj1010]

VLC is open source. When a track finishes it uses PNRG again to pick an index number again, and has no-memory of what it has played. It's a case of coincidence or bad PNRG algorithm.