I like to keep a distinction between shuffle and random. Shuffle is not just random selection. Depending on implementation of course.

With a rplain andom play you have the possibility of hearing the same exact file multiple times. It just keeps picking random track after random track. This is like shuffling a deck of cards and always putting the top card back into the deck at some random point (possible to hear the same track twice in a row).

With "shuffle," you have a fixed number of tracks you want to randomly order, but each one plays once and only once. Like shuffling a deck of cards and always putting the top card into another pile.

With the empeg, the argument is that the initial random ordering of the shuffle list isn't actually random. I've seen far too many coincidental pairings, but at least it's still what I think is a traditional shuffle mode. You won't get the same track again (unless you have two or more copies.... )

Bruno