What is random?

[teenagefanclub]

whenever I listen to my music be it spotify, apple etc, what do I expect from random?

What is random?
3 songs from the same artist in a row, is that random?
No songs from some artists at all, is that random?
No songs from a certain genre, is that random?

I really don't know what is random or I expect from random.

*I appreciate i may be talking bollocks here

[Little Gary Patel]

Apple actually made their iPod "shuffle" less random to be more random.....
true randomness means you could get the same artist 10 times in a row, but Apple changed it to get less of that to be more "random" in peoples minds

www.daxthink.com/think/2017/2/27/apple-made-itunes-shuffle-less-random-to-make-it-more-random

[mrcoke]

If the plays were truly random there would be the same chance of the same track being repeated as any other track.

But that does not happen so the selection of the next play is not truly random.