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When my playlist with 200+ songs stops shuffling through the same 20 and plays a song I haven't heard in 5 years
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I'm not sure how you would ensure that the songs only show up once in that list, unless you do weird shit like re-rolling the seed until you find one where this happens to be true.
But also, that's a lot harder than just storing the shuffled list. ๐
You don't have to do anything fancy, I don't think. Initialise your RNG with the seed that you have stored, shuffle the list, and then rotate the list to get to the 'first song'. Every RNG seed will give a correct result.
If you shuffle using eg. Durstenfeld/Knuth shuffle, which is O(n), then you can make a note of the 'first song's position' and do the rotation at the end of shuffling straight to the first song, in a single pass.
You'll still get a repeatable ordering if songs are added or removed from the playlist - the order will be different, of course - and it takes a lot less storage to write down the seed and the ID of the 'first song', which might matter if you're using a crappy old music player with very limited storage space.
Ah yeah, very good point. Their description didn't have me thinking of this kind of solution, but yeah, that should work.