Is it just me, or is Apple's Smart Shuffle REALLY stupid?
It seems to me that they weight songs according to how many times you've played them, and when you shuffle, it plays those songs first. I'm not positive on this, but I've got a lot of evidence to suggest that it's true.
My phone's got about 500 songs on it, and I just put them all on about a week ago. But now when I shuffle, my phone mostly only plays songs from three artists.
I'm wondering if Apple weights the songs that come up in shuffle in their Smart Shuffle algorithm. To me, that's a really dumb thing to do, because I have no control over what comes up in shuffle. Shouldn't they only weight the songs I clicked on specifically and said "play this one song, I want to hear it now"?
Does anyone know what the deal with this shuffling algorithm is, and if there's a way I can shut it off so that when I hit shuffle, my music actually shuffles?
Thanks guys.
It seems to me that they weight songs according to how many times you've played them, and when you shuffle, it plays those songs first. I'm not positive on this, but I've got a lot of evidence to suggest that it's true.
My phone's got about 500 songs on it, and I just put them all on about a week ago. But now when I shuffle, my phone mostly only plays songs from three artists.
I'm wondering if Apple weights the songs that come up in shuffle in their Smart Shuffle algorithm. To me, that's a really dumb thing to do, because I have no control over what comes up in shuffle. Shouldn't they only weight the songs I clicked on specifically and said "play this one song, I want to hear it now"?
Does anyone know what the deal with this shuffling algorithm is, and if there's a way I can shut it off so that when I hit shuffle, my music actually shuffles?
Thanks guys.