[bongo-devel] Re: 'Random' function failing to be random

[Daniel Jensen]

Daniel Brockman <address@hidden> writes:

> address@hidden (Daniel Jensen) writes:
>
>> Daniel Brockman <address@hidden> writes:
>>
>>> Probably we shold call `(random t)' only once.  I'm not sure
>>> where, though.  Maybe we should just put it at the top level?
>>
>> Yes, the top level would work. It might be better to call
>> it when random playback mode is set up.
>
> But then repeated use of `C-c C-r' would still be predictable.

How? I'm not following.

> We could seed the generator in `bongo-playlist-mode'.
> That should cover all cases.

I don't see how this is different from doing it when random playback
is set up, besides that it will seed the random number generator even
when it will never be used by Bongo.