Steps to reproduce:<\/p>\n
1. Load a playlist of N files in VLC
\n2. Set playback to Random
\n3. Play or jump (with ”Next” button) the playlist forward for N files and observe the playing order
\n4. GOTO step 3<\/p>\n
What happens:
\nThe order in which the files are played in step 3 always repeats itself.<\/p>\n
What I expect to happen:
\nFor the files to be played back in a truly random order, without any perpetually repeating pattern.<\/p>\n
Further info:
\nThe playing order seems to get shuffled only at the start, so the playlist isn’t played in order, but the once-shuffled order is repeated over and over. To reshuffle the playlist, VLC has to be restarted, but still then it just plays the newly-shuffled playlist over and over.<\/p>\n
To be fair, in practice instead of true randomness I suspect most people prefer something from the way the ”Random” now works: that each file on the playlist is played once and once only in every N plays. AFAICT it is not mutually exclusive with reshuffling the playlist between those N plays; just make sure that the two transitional files (last file of shuffled-playlist-1 vs. first file of shuffled-playlist-2) aren’t the same.<\/p>\n
I for one though would still prefer even true random over what it currently is.<\/p>\n
Of the half a dozen or so randomness-related bugs in VLC’s tracker I was able to find, Ticket #5730 (”New Feature Request: Shuffle & Random for Playlists”) [1] came closest to what I’m reporting here. In fact, it’s a superset of this one and I’d prefer to have it fixed over just mine.<\/p>\n
*[1] http:\/\/trac.videolan.org\/vlc\/ticket\/5730#trac-ticket-title<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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