iPod randomness

[palsgraf_polka]

So I have 13,504 songs on my iPod. What are the odds that on full shuffle, it would play two songs back to back that are back to back on the album from which the two songs originate? I'm driving to work and Let's Go To Bed by The Cure comes on, and then the next song is The Walk which are back to back on Staring At The Sea - The Singles.

I find that odd.

Comments

[jdack.livejournal.com]

That happens on mine all the time. I don't have 13k songs on it but I have hundreds.

I suspect it's a problem of most randomizing algorithms not using truly random numbers. I've run into this problem in doing programming a few times.

I wrote a quote generator for a website I had years ago. It uses php to pull a random quote from a database. But quite often, out of over 500+ you'd get the same one twice or more in a row.