I don't get how this works

[jaF0]

I have a few Playlists set up in Windows Media Player by music style. Each one is around 2,000 tracks and run close to 6 days if played non-stop which is what I do. Since I'm not in the room constantly, there are a significant number that play while I'm gone or asleep. The lists are randomized so they never play the same songs in the same order. I rotate the playlists, so it can be three to four weeks between playings for any given track.

So, how is it that there are some songs on each list that I seem to hear every time they're played? That seems like it should be nearly impossible.

 

[Saint Peter]

One polka sounds like the next?

 

[Pookie]

One polka sounds like the next?

The same with Slim Whitman.

 

[4est_4est_Gump]

Not a big fan of statistics or math in general I take it...

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[Zeb_Carter]

They play those with four stars the most, then the three stars, then the two and then one and none. If you have them all at four stars then it should be random, otherwise it will play the four stars more than the rest.

 

[Disgustipated]

They play those with four stars the most, then the three stars, then the two and then one and none. If you have them all at four stars then it should be random, otherwise it will play the four stars more than the rest.

So... nothing to do with statistics or mathz? Are you calling AJ a liar?

Not a big fan of statistics or math in general I take it...

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[Zeb_Carter]

So... nothing to do with statistics or mathz? Are you calling AJ a liar?

No.

 

[glynndah]

Perhaps those songs are the ones that have something unique about them, a tempo, a bit of melody, a turn of phrase that catches your ear so they're the ones you notice. The other ones may play just as often but there's nothing "special" about them so you don't pay attention to them.

 

[jaF0]

They play those with four stars the most, ...

The way I have it set, any one song only plays once each time I play a list. I can verify that by looking at the play count numbers. Each track shows the same number of times played; no one track plays more than any other track.

It's just that I see to hear some more often than others for some reason.

 

[Colonel Hogan]

The way I have it set, any one song only plays once each time I play a list. I can verify that by looking at the play count numbers. Each track shows the same number of times played; no one track plays more than any other track.

It's just that I see to hear some more often than others for some reason.

That being the case, I like Glynndah's answer. With 2,000 tracks in each list, it stands to reason you don't know the number of times songs are being played that you don't notice. They may very well be being played with the approximately same frequency as the ones you DO notice.