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Wednesday, 20 August 2008

iPod echo chamber ::

While driving to an appointment this morning, I noticed that the iPod had chosen two tracks in a row that I was into in 1980. Looking now at the other tracks it chose today, 7 of 13 tracks are from albums I’ve had since the late 70's or early 80's.

Thus the weakness of the “random shuffle” playlist. Mine’s a bit more complicated—it tries to mix “not recently played” with a healthy dose of “recently added,” but the problem with “recently added” is that it’s indistinguishable from “recently (re-)ripped from CD.”

I think I’m going to throw together a little script to build a playlist by queueing manually chosen albums.

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