Re: MP3 Player Shufflin' Along

Scour Old Cereal Bowls 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.  

Probably a bad random number generator, or random seed. Mine does the
same thing. I made a MP3 CD with about two hundred songs on it - if I
leave the thing on random, I'll always get the same ones.

Also, on one player I noticed that the random generator would not go
over a certain number.