I am on my third iPod. I outgrew my first two because I had more music then they could hold.
My new iPod is a 160-Gbyte Classic, which I bought refurbished from Apple as a Christmas present to myself. I believe that 160 Gigabytes should hold all my music for a long time.
Although, I have added a few new tunes to my new iPod, it basically contains the same collection of tunes that I had stored on my old iPod.
Normally, I let the iPod randomly select the tunes it plays. What is interesting (my iPod “mystery”) is that I am hearing tunes on my new iPod that my old iPod never played.
Seems to me that my old iPod would randomly play a subset of the tunes it had in storage. Although the subset was probably immense, I did hear the same tunes repeated over time, but it obviously did not randomize everything because almost everything I hear on my new iPod is stuff I never heard on my old iPod.
Is my new iPod randomly playing a new subset of tunes or is it doing a better job of randomizing the collection?
By the way, for what it’s worth (or BTW FWIW), I have over 8,700 tunes stored on my new iPod. Also, my old iPod was a 30-Gbyte model.
Stan I don’t own one, but could you have Genius turned on that I see in iTunes?
I just skimmed it but never used it. Seems that would cause that behavior.
Matt — Genius is enabled in iTunes on my Mac, but I am not sure how it effects what is stored on my iPod. I will have to research the matter. Thanks for the lead.
I have an iPhone and when I randomize, it seems to play the most commonly listened to songs or ones that I don’t skip past more than ones that I do. It’s not truly random. I believe there is some kind of algorithmic randomness to it.