Will the RAMDOM ever really be random?

[Demodave]

I have not seen anyone post about this in a while.

I have the H10 20gig player. When I select random, the player will stay within the same five or six letters around the song I picked. In other words, "Highway To Hell" might be followed by "Goodbye Yellow Brick Road"...then "I Shot The Sheriff"....then "Hit The Lights"...then "Jump Around"...etc. The player will never grab a song from the A's or B's, or the R's or T's or Z's; assuming that I start with a song in the H's.

If I start with "Rock This Town", then the player will randomly play songs whose first letters start with P,Q,R,S,T,U. Nothing else.

Am I doing something wrong here; or is this simply a bug in the player. I have the latest firmware at 2.51.

It's a big enough deal to make me consider another player as this feature is really important.

(And for those that suggest it...I'd rather not have to use EasyH10 with this.)

[ikonochris]

Yeah, I've noticed (and read) the same thing. A slight bummer for sure. I think I remember reading that Rockbox has a true random feature though. Maybe it's time...
ikonochris

[devyanks90]

this is a documented problem, with other threads about it

There is no Rockbox for the H10, ikonochris

[NPswimdude500]

Originally Posted by devyanks90

this is a documented problem, with other threads about it

There is no Rockbox for the H10, ikonochris

http://forums.rockbox.org/index.php?topic=2437.0

not yet, anyway...

[Renfrewbhoy]

Excuse my ignorance, but what exactly would RockBox for the H20 do for it?

[DD]

The same that its done for all the other Rockbox'd players; in general Rockbox's features are universal across all the ports.

So if it did happen, you would get...
-Gapless
-More codec support
-Full OTF playlisting
-All the other stuff ...