Which two lists? ;)

I think you got it. :) I was, of course, speaking of any two successive lists resulting from the shuffling.

The randomizing approach I mentioned in my response to jethro would deal with that, though. Here's a shot at it in code:

#!/usr/bin/perl -w use strict; use List::Util qw[ shuffle ]; my @tracks = 1..100; my $range = 5; # No overlap for this number of songs { my @last; for (@tracks){ unshift @last, $_; @last = @last[0..4] if @last > 5; # Play it! print "$_\n"; } my %h; do { # print "Shuffling...\n"; @tracks = shuffle @tracks; @h{@last,@tracks[0..4]} = (1) x $range * 2; } while keys %h < $range * 2; # For demo purposes... sleep 5; redo; }

The repeated shuffling mechanism kicks off a lot if $range is close to @tracks / 2; that makes for a good test.


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In reply to Re^4: Music shuffling by oko1
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