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what's the difference between those 2 playback orders? There's some threads about similar topics but none of those really gets to the point.
I'm using "shuffle (tracks)" and as I understood that one should avoid playing songs several times. But I still have loads of songs in my playlist that have been played 10 times while others never have been played.
And "random" is supposed to choose a completly random song, ignoring any history, am I getting this right? What I don't like about random is that "next" and "previous" don't go back/forward in playback history but just select the prev/next song in playlist.

Could anyone please explain me the difference between those two modes (and maybe the different shuffle modes) in an easy-to-understand way? smile.gif (using 0.9.5 beta btw)
Frank Bicking
foobar2000 FAQ: Random / Shuffle Playback Order

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