With the advent of the iPod, the masses learned just how cool it can be to play huge collections of songs in random sequences. No longer forced to listen passively to an entire CD all the way through ...

Some Apple Music users are reportedly complaining about the random playlists from other people that are appearing on the streaming platform. While some are not bothered about the case, others are ...

Last spring it dawned on Apple CEO Steve Jobs that the heart of his hit iPod digital music player was the "shuffle." This feature allows users to mix up their entire song collections--thousands of ...

Think that song has appeared in your playlists just a few too many times? David Braue puts the randomness of Apple's song shuffling to the test -- and finds some surprising results. Quick -- think of ...

You’re listening to music on shuffle, and an artist appears twice in a row. It feels like more than a coincidence – perhaps your music player is playing tricks on you, or has chosen favoured artists – ...

This is the story of a scam … probably. It is, if nothing else, the story of one inexplicably successful Bulgarian Spotify playlist. As Music Business Worldwide reported earlier this week, multiple ...

There I was, walking to the railway station, minding my own business, when... bam! Our song. That's the gamble you take when you set your device to "random". Sometimes you get good songs, sometimes ...

That's the gamble you take when you set your device to "random". Sometimes you get good songs, sometimes you get bad ones. Sometimes you get songs that remind you of someone that was once in your life ...