first 10 random songs on your ipod

[woodleygrrl]

One More Hour- Sleater-Kinney
 The Stairs- INXS
 Second Guessing- REM
 Punks in the Beerlight- Silverjews
 Neighborhood #3- Arcade Fire
 Hey Ya!- Outkast
 Act of the Apostle II- Belle and Sebastain
 Harborcoat- REM
 U.S. Mustard Company- Robert Pollard
 The Devil- Urban Dance Squad
 
 My first post, yo

[brennser]

Originally posted by woodleygrrl:
 
 My first post, yo

stick to the restaurant reviews.......
 
 ....only kidding, welcome aboard!

[brennser]

I listen to a lot more recently released music than these 10 suggest!
 
 Tar Kisses - Throwing Muses
 Conjure Me - The Afghan Whigs
 Shake - Kristin Hersh
 Spit It Out - Brendan Benson
 Made of Stone - The Stone Roses
 Is She Weird? - Pixies
 Credit in the Straight World - Young Marble Giants
 Savage Earth Heart - The Waterboys
 You Keep on Lyin - Hoods

[bigyellow100]

my new shuffle:
 
 !!! - take ecstacy with me
 a camp - song for the leftovers
 ghostface killah feat. wu-tang clan - 9 milli bros.
 2pac feat outlawz - hit em up
 jay-z - money ain't a thang
 modest mouse - worms vs. birds
 rilo kiley - science vs. romance
 guns n' roses - mr. brownstone
 the shins - turn a stone
 the cardigans - losing a friend
 
 hmmm...i never really thought that the random mode for itunes wasnt really random.  but now that i think about it, it seems as though the songs of the  artists that i listen to most often repeat quite frequently, not that the first 10 are indicative of the artists i listen to all the time (well maybe the cardigans...they are my guilty pleasure, early stuff anyway).

[kmb187]

1. "Proud"--Tegan and Sara
 2. "Dr. Blind"--Metric
 3. "Intuition" (Live)--Feist
 4. "Changes Are No Good"--The Stills
 5. "Weekend (James Iha Mix)"--Ladytron
 6. "Empty" (Live)--Metric
 7. "Your Call"--The Concretes
 8. "Last One Standing (Shipps & Tait Mix)"--Ladytron
 9. "Tinfoil"--Rainer Maria
 10. "Head's Too Big"--The Ditty Bops

[pj]

That is pretty cool. I have often wondered about that. I just thought there was a glitch in the ipod system or that they would go back to an artist that was just played to give you some continuity.
 
 

Originally posted by ggwâ?¢:
   

Originally posted by Big KC:
  has anyone noticed that the random shuffle isn't so random?
 
 Most times, my first ten tracks include 2-3 cuts off the same album.
 
 Apple made a fix for this in the latest itunes, but it hasn't made a difference...

No sooner did converts load their libraries onto the shiny new devices than they discovered a new deficiency: The randomization feature seemed anything but, well, random. Sure, "I Got the Blues" no longer played back to back with "Bitch," but two songs later, the Rolling Stones were back, and three tunes after that they were back again.
 
 ....
 
 when I ran my 2,700-song playlist through the program, it didn't take long to find the same lack of variety. Song No. 4 in the list was "Bleeding Heart Disease," a tune off the first album by the Southern punk rock band The Dexateens. Song No. 6 comes from the same CD.
 
 My playlist has a total of 17 songs by the band, so it seemed highly unlikely that two of them would be bunched so close together in a random order. But I was wrong about that.
 
 The problem, it turns out, isn't that the programs aren't randomizing my playlists. They are. According to Jeff Lait, a mathematician and author of randomm3u, it's what's happening between my ears, specifically, in my expectations of what it means for something to be random.
 
 To illustrate his point, Lait referred to a phenomenon statisticians call the birthday paradox. Roughly stated, it holds that if there are 23 randomly selected people in a room, there is a better than 50-50 chance that at least two of them will have the same birthday. The point: Mathematical randomness often contradicts our intuitive expectations of randomness.
 
 What we want, Lait says, isn't a list that's been randomized, but one that's been stratified, or separated into categories that are weighted by a listener's preferences. A stratified playlist might select songs randomly but would be smart enough to throw out choices that, say, would repeat a band within 10 songs.
 
 My iPod for A Random Playlist [/b]

[Santos L. Halper]

It's probably been 2 years since I posted on here but this is a good thread to end the drought.  I've had my non-ipod on random for the past 12 hours so I'll pick up where it is now:
 
 M. Ward - Undertaker
 Idlewild - As If I Hadn't Slept
 Sloan - Can't Face Up
 The Adverts - Gary Gilmore's Eyes (Live)
 Faith No More - Digging the Grave
 Decemberists - Grace Cathederal Hill
 Drive-By Truckers - Sands of Iwo Jima
 Beck - Jack Ass
 Teenage Fanclub - Slow Fade
 GBV - Run Wild

[brennser]

out of 3,262 songs on my iTunes at work....includes lots of samplers and web downloads not on my ipod
 
 Hopeless - The Wrens
 Lost At Sea - Earlimart
 Make it Together - Beachwood Sparks
 Skinny - Tsunami
 Ways in Which We Burn - Jason Darling
 Tiny Shards - Silver Screen
 Blue Knows - Rodeo Boy
 Bad Times Are Coming Round Again - Waco Brothers
 Pressure Point - The Zutons
 Hey Baby Where You Been - Hayes Carll

[woodleygrrl]

Originally posted by brennser:
   

Originally posted by woodleygrrl:
 
 My first post, yo

stick to the restaurant reviews.......
 
 ....only kidding, welcome aboard! [/b]

So mean!  But thanks...I think?

[brennser]

Fleets - Cartel
 Test Drive - The Mummies
 The Sporting Life - The Decemberists
 Magpie - The Mountain Goats
 Let Love Not Weight Me Down - Ed Harcourt
 Talk the Flyer Down - Helicopter Helicopter (Thanks Bags!)
 Love Is - A House
 Barrio - Giant Sand
 Garrison - Film School
 Oh Larsen B - British Sea Power

[helicon1]

I'm playing again...
 
 Royskopp - So Easy
 Gyroscope - Raindrops
 Alfie - All too Heavy Now
 Interpol - PDA
 Nirvana - About a Girl
 Nefrit El-Or - Maya Blue
 Richard Wright - Unfair Ground
 Ambulance LTD - Heavy Lifting
 Gustav Holst - The Planets, Mercury Winged Messenger
 Mogwai - Like Herod

[bigyellow100]

once more...
 
 kanye west - we major
 arcade fire - crown of love
 rilo kiley - it just is
 giant drag - smashing
 interpol - obstacle 2
 radiohead - let down
 franz ferdinand - take me out
 bloc party - banquet
 the cardigans - sabbath bloody sabbath
 gang of four - ether

[grotty]

the pod wanted to rock hard for a monday morn:
 
 ***************************************
 
 Heaven is Truck ~ Pavement
 
 In Houston ~ Tapes N Tapes
 
 Kissed By Lightning ~ Deadboy & Elephantmen
 
 Ancient Man ~ Deadboy & Elephantmen
 
 Let You Down ~ Trespassers William
 
 Don't Love You ~ TVOTR
 
 I'm A Tree ~ GBV
 
 White Unicorn ~ Wolfmother
 
 Dirt ~ Stooges
 
 Underneath the Waves ~ Twilight Singers

[tigersscareme]

shangri-la- the kinks
 the question is how fast- superchunk
 the happening- pixies
 breakin' the law- the new pornographers
 slip it in- black flag
 walk a mile- holly go lightly
 hummingbird- wilco
 a night like this- the cure
 bury me beneath the weeping willow- the carter family
 decomposing trees- galaxie 500

[Bombay Chutney]

Chutes And Ladders - Gray Matter
 Storm In My House - The Minutemen
 Catch Me Now I'm Falling (Live) - The Kinks
 E.S.P. For Now - Casual Dots
 Pretty Persuasion - R.E.M.
 Stacked Crooked - New Pornographers
 The Adverts - The Adverts
 Deep - Pearl Jam
 The Jack (Live) - AC/DC
 Haven't Got The Time - (the sounds of) kaleidoscope