Is Shuffle really Random?

[i.phone4]

what's even more ironic is when you listen to a song then turn on pandora and that song is playing. Of course no one will believe me haha but it did happen.

 

[scaredpoet]

There's lots of articles that have been done on this:

http://tech2.nytimes.com/mem/technology/techreview.html?res=9904EED6123EF935A1575BC0A9629C8B63

In a nutshell: yes, shuffle is as random as any computer can get.