Comments on: Random Play Messes with our Heads http://gigaom.com/apple/random-play-messes-with-our-heads/ Fri, 25 May 2012 16:59:20 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: David http://gigaom.com/apple/random-play-messes-with-our-heads/#comment-307946 Wed, 21 Sep 2005 16:20:48 +0000 http://www.theappleblog.com/2005/09/19/random-play-messes-with-our-heads/#comment-307946 For true randomness, you have to pick the songs by hand. :)

]]> By: Josh Pigford http://gigaom.com/apple/random-play-messes-with-our-heads/#comment-307947 Tue, 20 Sep 2005 21:49:24 +0000 http://www.theappleblog.com/2005/09/19/random-play-messes-with-our-heads/#comment-307947

We don’t want randomness in the mathematical sense, we want pleasant surprises.

Exactly. I want to hear the songs I like more frequently than others and likewise the songs I don’t like as much I’d like to hear less frequently.

]]> By: rvcarl http://gigaom.com/apple/random-play-messes-with-our-heads/#comment-307948 Tue, 20 Sep 2005 18:37:48 +0000 http://www.theappleblog.com/2005/09/19/random-play-messes-with-our-heads/#comment-307948 Funny- when radio stations got bought up by corporate giants, deejay selections were replaced by computer-modeled playlists. Now we hate radio for being monotonous. We don’t want randomness in the mathematical sense, we want pleasant surprises.

]]> By: Kevin Ballard http://gigaom.com/apple/random-play-messes-with-our-heads/#comment-307949 Tue, 20 Sep 2005 05:55:56 +0000 http://www.theappleblog.com/2005/09/19/random-play-messes-with-our-heads/#comment-307949 iTunes is also leading because of the new Smart Shuffle feature in iTunes 5 that makes it seem more random by making it less random.

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