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> playlist:
> - The shuffle algorithm wasn't quite correct

What was wrong about it?

The current version runs through the list, swapping the song at the 'count'
position with a random candidate from the entire list of files.

Your version takes a random candidate from the list of remaining files. Why
is that better?

/Linus

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