Category: Geek

How random is random? (The Truth About Spotify’s Shuffle Button)

For the average person, this question should seem somewhat useless. “Random” is the translation of “aleatorio” to English: simple. A fact that happens without much explanation or relation to a previous circumstance, and that we sometimes like to attribute to chance, fate or coincidence. On the contrary, for music lovers like me who listen to more than 50,000 minutes of music a year and regularly seek fresh sounds, this question is no small matter. How random is random?