iPod shuffle play

[rhienelleth]

My usual way of listening to the 1400 score tracks I currently have on the iPod, is to select whatever score I'm in the mood for and play it on shuffle. I really need to stop being lazy about it and make themed playlists, like "battle music" or "mysterious moments" -- things like that for music to write by. Except I haven't, so often as not I simple select Chronicles of Narnia, or Children of Dune, or Star Wars, Episode III.

But for the last two days, I've wanted to be surprised, so I put my entire library of music scores on shuffle. That gives el iPod 1400 tracks to choose from. (I really need to add more from our collection. That's laziness, too.)

And yet, out of twelve tracks so far this morning, four of them have been from Conan the Barbarian. Four. How is that shuffling, exactly?

Oh, wait. And four songs later, we are back to Conan. You know, it really is Basil Poledouris' masterpiece score, truly one of the greatest scores of all time. But I'm really not in a Conan mood this morning, iPod.

Comments

[kistha.livejournal.com]

If you shuffle by song you are more likely to get album and artist repeats. Shuffle by album and you won't get any album repeats, but may get song or artist repeats...and so on.

Good luck!

[rhienelleth.livejournal.com]

Aha! I did not realize that...

[kistha.livejournal.com]

Of course some days your iPod becomes possessed and picks a mood and there isn't anything you can do about it.

I nearly threw mine against a wall one day because it was stuck in "Tragic Relationship" songs and wouldn't quit.