Daily Archives: 23 May, 2005

Thanks to Alex Blanc today – he worked through a lot of binary based maths with me to help answer a fairly challenging question… how to set up a user selected playlist so that it plays back in a random order.

The issue is actually very complex. Last year we developed a user selected playlist allowing the viewer to choose up to nine clips from a total of 24 on offer. If you consider that each viewer will make their own choice this is in itself a random playback engine. However, what if the viewer wants to select the first nine clips and then play those back randomly without repeating any clips? This is the challenge!
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