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430 date, so please bear with us.) The information you are most likely 430 date, so please bear with us.) The information you are most likely
431 looking for is a bit down the tree, so the heres the url: 431 looking for is a bit down the tree, so the heres the url:
432 http://rockbox.haxx.se/manual/rec-general.html 432 http://rockbox.haxx.se/manual/rec-general.html
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434Q53: How does the shuffle work?
435A53: It sees the playlist as a deck of cards, shuffling the entries using a
436 pseudo-random generator called the Mersenne Twister. After shuffling,
437 the list is never changed again until you reshuffle the list, by
438 stopping the playback and restarting. If the repeat mode is enabled,
439 the list will simply start over from the first file again, without
440 reshuffling.
441 The random seed is stored in the persistent setting area, so that the
442 resume feature can shuffle the playlist in exactly the same way when
443 resuming.