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Is the iPod Shuffle Playing Favorites?
marksilverman writes "Steven Levy at Newsweek is reporting that his iPod Shuffle seems to favor certain songs. Is Apple receiving kickbacks to promote certain artists? Apple denies it, of course, and Levy had the good sense to ask a mathmatician and a cryptographer who explained that it's probably just humans finding patterns where there are none." Less neurotically, both CNet and PCWorld have discussions of the Shuffle's interior spaces.
I have heard YMCA an inordinate amount of times on my ipod shuffle. I wonder what that means.
If i Hear Fiona APPLE one more time, I'll kill myself.
Levy had the good sense to ask a mathmatician and a cryptographer who explained that it's probably just humans finding patterns where there are none.
Didn't stop him from submitting it to Slashdot though. No facts? Great, put it on the front page!
I think slashdot favours certain articles and repeats them over and over again.
Clearly we need to lock an ipod in a room with the same scientists who discovered revolutionary psychic patterns in that little black box a couple of weeks back on slashdot.
Perhaps Ipod will predict when Hewy Lewis and the news will make a mainstream comeback?
You're absolutely right!@ There's an array inside the iPod shuffle of about 150 artists that will take precedence over all other artists and will play songs by those artists 3 times more than all others because because Apple recieved $100,000 per to make it happen.
Those of you that think that sounds completely plausable, please step to the left. Everyone else please step to the right.
Everyone standing on the left, please drink the magic juice we're distributing because you've been selected to come with us to the great beyond where you will experience another plane of being.
Everyone on the right, enjoy the rest of your life because you enjoy logic and reason.
I just wasted your mod points! HA!
The beginning of iPayola?
"And Tonight at 6, can bees think?
A new study reveals that, no they cannot."
Reminds me of a Dilbert comic:
Accounting Troll: "Over here we have our random number generator"
Number Generator Troll: "Nine Nine Nine Nine Nine Nine"
Dilbert: "Are you sure that's random?"
Accounting Troll: "That's the problem with randomness: you can never be sure"
With a little bit of Logic and Reason, you could make your own music.
Then, you can offer apple $100,000.00 and see if they'll add you to their magic artist array!
Of course, you might have to pay out to the other artists on it, too, since you'd be decreasing their play frequency by 2/3 of a percent...
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If i Hear Fiona APPLE one more time, I'll kill myself.
Perhaps you could remove it from your iPod Shuffle loadout?
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I noticed that too.
I have a 1GB iPod shuffle, currently it contains roughly 100 songs.
My iPod shuffle "prefers" playing BAD RELIGION and SLAYER.
I don't know how or why.
Maybe you guys can help me figure this out.
here's the breakdown:
100 tracks (roughly)
40 BAD RELIGION's song
40 SLAYER's song
20 of other bands
THIS IS REALLY FRUSTRATING that the iPod shuffle prefers playing SLAYER and BAD RELIGION.
HELP!!!!!!!
(***casm mode ends)
Maybe the editors have a *go with me on this*
:-D
Slashdot Shuffle (TM) system for the articles they post.
It would explain the dupes and the lack of quality control with one theory.
I keed, I keed
Yvan eth nioj, baby!
It would be cool if it didn't suck.
OK, that does it. I'm going to buy an iPod Shuffle tomorrow.
I took the red nonpareil...
Ah, arrogance and stupidity, all in the same package. How efficient of you. -- Londo Mollari
Is Apple receiving kickbacks to promote certain artists? Apple denies it, of course.
Did marksilverman, a slashdot poster, kill a puppy to get an erection? marksilverman denies it, OF COURSE.
Reminds of the dilbert where he goes to the accounting department and he see the randum number generator troll.
....
Number generating troll: nine, nine, nine, nine, nine,
Dilbert: Are you sure its random numbers?
Acounting troll: That's the thing about random numbers. You can never be sure...
He, who dies with the most toys, wins
No, no, no, something like
"Apple backing away from unbiased iPod tune selection!"
of the time I was trying to explain probability to my second grade daughter. I took a coin out and flipped it five times in a row and it came up heads every time.
"Excuse, me," I said, "I'm going out to buy a lottery ticket."
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I was once brought in to fix an application that randomly picked people to pee in a bottle, and...
Hey, can I get a copy of that code?