Many music players have done this for a long time. In fact I believe that's part...

eterm · on July 19, 2017

Shuffle is too far the other way though, you don't get any duplicates until you've been through the whole playlist.

'Random' was better, especially when there were players that would play "random album" which was great.

You're right that shuffle has been the standard for a long time, the last actual "random" for singles I remember was napster back when it was popular.

SAI_Peregrinus · on July 19, 2017

I usually use Foobar2000 in "shuffle albums" mode. It's a good compromise IMO.

pkulak · on July 19, 2017

But even a pure shuffle isn't enough, since you're likely to get the same artist many times in a row, which bothers people.

laumars · on July 19, 2017

That depends entirely on the implementation. There's no one rule for how developers should implement shuffle.

When I was writing my in car entertainment system (it's not as good as it sounds!) the first metric that was shuffled was the artist, followed by weightings for albums.

worldsayshi · on July 19, 2017

I would expect a "dumb shuffle" to randomise the order of playing songs in the list but play each song once.