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authorLinus Nielsen Feltzing <linus@haxx.se>2002-09-18 09:25:55 +0000
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@@ -430,3 +430,14 @@ A52: This information is in our manual (It sometimes gets a bit out of
date, so please bear with us.) The information you are most likely
looking for is a bit down the tree, so the heres the url:
http://rockbox.haxx.se/manual/rec-general.html
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+Q53: How does the shuffle work?
+A53: It sees the playlist as a deck of cards, shuffling the entries using a
+ pseudo-random generator called the Mersenne Twister. After shuffling,
+ the list is never changed again until you reshuffle the list, by
+ stopping the playback and restarting. If the repeat mode is enabled,
+ the list will simply start over from the first file again, without
+ reshuffling.
+ The random seed is stored in the persistent setting area, so that the
+ resume feature can shuffle the playlist in exactly the same way when
+ resuming.