Is the shuffle really that bad?

[X-Nemesis]

So having had my clip for about a couple weeks now, I'm noticing that the shuffle on it is quite brutal. It will often repeat a song either right away or within 4-6 next song advances.

Does anyone else experience this?

And I thought the shuffle feature on the D2 was bad. I wonder why companies cannot just use a shuffle system that loads all the songs in random order and plays them one after the other...OR, marks a song as played and then does not come back to it until all selected songs have been played once.

Frustrating.

[CrowdAds]

[Marvin the Martian]

Originally Posted by X-Nemesis

So having had my clip for about a couple weeks now, I'm noticing that the shuffle on it is quite brutal. It will often repeat a song either right away or within 4-6 next song advances.

Does anyone else experience this?

Nope, no repeats here. Of course, I do have 3,600 songs on mine, so there may be less chance of a repeat.

[sunami88]

I don't know that I've ever had repeats.

[WalkGood]

IIRC I did get a repeat once but I haven't used the OF in over a year now so I can't comment on it and even though I rarely use shuffle, I've never gotten one with rockbox shuffle.

[FreeZ5]

X-nemesis:

I have a V1 Clip, a V2 Clip, and a Clip+. I have not noticed any problems with the Shuffle order. Admittedly there are only 31 songs on my Clip+ and songs do tend to repeat one or twice over a two hour drive but that's not a shuffle problem. I just listened to the V1 Clip over a 4 hour drive today, and shuffle seemed to work fine.

BTW, if you have multiple copies of a song on the player (I had that recently with two songs), they are treated as different songs and may appear to be repeating in shuffle mode.

Steve

[upvalue]

My Clip sometimes plays several Songs by one Artist in a row in the shuffle mode. Pretty annoying, but i haven't experienced your Problem yet.