Comments on: more shuffle, please

By: david carlton

david carlton — Tue, 14 Aug 2007 23:44:45 +0000

They’re GCC and (to a lesser extent) GDB contributors, too, but there they have less of a choice. Not sure what license WebKit is under.

Yes, you can force it to reshuffle: just hit “Shuffle Songs” again. So it’s manageable: if I tell it to shuffle and if I think I’ve heard the first song recently, I just keep trying until I get something new.

By: Stuart Marks

Stuart Marks — Tue, 14 Aug 2007 23:40:56 +0000

Yes, Apple is quite secretive, but they do some open source projects, most notably Darwin and WebKit.

I can see that with 1,200 songs having a faulty shuffle could be quite irritating. Is there a way to force it to reshuffle?

By: david carlton

david carlton — Sun, 12 Aug 2007 21:13:22 +0000

It seems to be secret, yes; I doubt Apple seriously believes that it’s a competitive advantage, but they’re a secretive company, they don’t open source their products unless they have to (as far as I am aware), and I guess they’re not in the habit of letting people know this sort of individual technical detail. (None of which is particularly uncommon.)

By: Jordan

Jordan — Sun, 12 Aug 2007 18:27:05 +0000

Wann ist denn man ein Mann?

Is the iPod’s shuffle algorithm secret? Why would it be? It doesn’t seem like the kind of thing where some incredibly inventive algorithm would provide competitive advantage.