Scour Old Cereal Bowls <scouroldcerealbowls@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>Does anyone know how the shuffle function on car stereos work? My car
>stereo takes Mp3 CDs. I have a CD with about 200 MP3s on it. It's not
>organized in any particular way with files classified in albums or put
into
>folders or anything. However, the player when it's in Shuffle mode
doesn't
>seem all that random.
>
>For example, it recently has started about half of the time on Track 77.
>It then generally plays a random song, but within the first 3 or 4 songs
>after that, it will play one of three or four particular songs, which
>aren't related in any way that I can tell, and don't have track numbers
>which are related to each other, as far as I can tell, such as being
>adjacent on the disc, or all ending in 0, or anything like that.
>
>I typically listen to this CD only on short trips, so I'll only play
around
>5-10 songs at a time, so this level of repetition seems unlikely to be
the
>result of just a quirk of rolling the dice.
>
>Any ideas how it's choosing what songs to play?
No idea. I tend to burn one CD then leave it in the player till it's
time to toss it. Unless I run the battery down to nothing by leaving
lights on or something, the player remembers where I was the last time
I chose CD and continues from there -- mid song.
I think it plays alphabetical within directory and plays the
directories alphabetically, but that might also reflect the order that
my burning software lays down the tracks.
Till I got the iPod, my main usage of the disk was to burn eight or
ten hours of podcast that I wanted to listen to. Since these podcasts
are broken into approximate hour-long chunks, I appreciated that the
player would remember and continue from a particular point within the
"song".
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Tomorrow is today already.
Greg Goss, 1989-01-27
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