The Shuffle Button is a Lie. Here's Why.
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- Опубликовано: 6 фев 2023
- Spotify's Shuffle is one of the most popular features for being able to randomly select music for you to listen to. However, how is the algorithm able to be random?! Is it truly random!? 🤔
In this video, we talk about Spotify's shuffle and why software developers build algorithms to trick us into believing what random actually is.
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I would love a deep dive into how google chooses what to show as top results. I know back in the day it was based on backlinks or something and they were thinking of calling the company backrub or something. That could be cool
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The algorithm using ML by which RUclips or Instagram suggest us type of content that we like
Been watching your videos for last 1hr, you're successful in your mission!
Not only it's not random - it's meant to annoy you probably. 300 songs in a playlist, yet it plays the same 5 over and over.
YEA AND I FUCKIGN HATE IT SO MUCH
This is one of those questions I’ve always had but never really bothered to look up. This video does an amazing job explaining “random”!
Thank you so much!!
I always though they get a song with a similar beat and style and keep shuffling
'Random' is just a concept. It doesn't exist in reality but in our perception.
bloody hell, this is one great video. love when u talk about all the maths that goes behind this, really makes me want to just never stop maths. keep going
Never stop Harry!
_Going to need you to demonstrate what the 'Fisher-Yates Shuffle' dance would look like for science_
RUclips doesn't hide it. They just play the same order of videos over and over again everytime I press it.
Yet I still seem to hear the same songs repeated after a bit and get frustrated by having to skip over and over
Wow, great content but seriously we need more content like this. Keep it up, Lewis. ❤
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Great content Lewis! too bad the algorithm hasn't picked up on it. Hopefully tomorrow it'll blow up. Keep up the good work :)
Also whats the 'drawing-like' animation style on your images at 5:29 and such?
Great video as always. I really wanted to know this. Thank u!
Great explanation. I’ve been very curious how it worked. Thanks
These videos are really cool. Please keep making them!
Definitely would like to see more of these videos 👌
Plot twist: there is nothing random, neither in computers nor the real world
Need more vids like this
A recommendation: while the moving background makes sense, I do think it probably would have been better for your example images for dithering to not be animated, as dithering is a very fine detail.
This video is 🔥!!
Why don’t they shuffle with removal from the list? Each time a song is played , it is removed from the list of songs that can be played in the code. This loops until there is just one song left that hasn’t been played in the playlist. Then it repeats again
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Great video lewis. I was thinking of installing Spotify earlier
It's my fave!!
@@CodingWithLewis is it better than yt music?
This may have been true at the time of posting, but I can tell you the shuffle is no longer random at all. I often get 5 or 6 songs in a row by the same two artists. It’s only when I skip a couple times that it switches and plays something different, but then I get multiple songs by THAT artist. I’ve calculated the probability of this happening each time, and the number literally can’t be displayed on my calculator because there are too many decimals
bro i havent felt bored not even a single sec, and my advise is it would be best to add source for ur info because now am interested to look more into this ....
The new set is cool
Spotify shuffle is better than RUclips music.
YM I shuffled my songs all the time like on Sfy, and my son waits for one song out of 50 songs.
But 20 drives the song never plays 0/20 but the songs at the top of the list plays 8/20 times.
So I stopped playing the shuffle list and had to make new playlists now out of 20 songs.
Feels like Spotify used a shuffle like it will play 5/20 every song
I never use shuffle, I hate it, I want it to follow my playlist song by song, like a CD.
People who listen to albums on shuffle need help.
They made it premium in Spotify :(
@@Pattasubalu6969 Did they make shuffle premium now?
@@gabrielarrhenius6252 yes
@@Pattasubalu6969 I do not know if I should say that I am proud or disappointed as a swede.
So interesting, banger vid!
Interesting! Looks like a great video
Let me know!
Great video
I want back to back artists in my playlist though
No shuffle for you!
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Human true random is easy
you pick 2 predefined numbers like 31 and 75
assign a number 1 and 2 respectively
get someone else to pick 1 or 2
true random :)
If this is true it would be fine I just feel like nowadays they use ml algorithms that guess our preferences but that ends up playing the same songs over and over over time. Which isnt what I asked for
I think a shuffle algorithm is only used on your preexisting playlists. It wouldn't be used when they're trying to predict which songs you like.
Though I guess maybe it could be. But, if that was the case, they'd use some algorithm first to predict a list of songs you'd like, then they'd shuffle that list.
My last vid of the day, better be worth it
Edit : NVM I'll watch this when I'm more awake. I don't understand a thing
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Wow
great video
I used to work at a quantum computing company specializing in quantum entropy
Pretty accurate explanation.
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hmmmmmmmmmmm Very interesting video, as always!
Glad you enjoyed it
Is it me or intentional, but did you said Botify instead of Spotify 2 times?
Once At 0:23 and at 2:45
Both are at the beginning of sentences, and might be the first part of a recording. I suspect he's saying "Spotify", but the S is getting cut off.
"Couple lines of code" + 20 libraries
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personally I dont like it at all, I wish we would get true shuffle
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I'd say it's more that humans don't really want their song lists to be purely random. We choose "shuffle" to add some level of novelty and diversity to our existing playlist. We don't want similar songs in that list to be bunched together.
I would actually suspect that grouping only by artist would not be sufficient. Same artist is just one similarity of many. You'd probably want multiple different ways that songs could be similar, or maybe even some sort of algorithm that assigns numerical scores for how similar something is, and then groups by a threshold of similarity.
As for Floyd-Steinberg: I'd say the issue is that randomness isn't enough to achieve a dithering effect. It's also necessary to reduce clumping. A clump of black dots followed by a clump of white dots just looks like big black and white dots. But alternating black and white dots look like shades of gray.
It's more about how vision works than it is about our perception of randomness. The random dithering looks bad because the clumping is obscuring parts of the image.
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