I've noticed how, by sheer chance, the same artist will play twice

As Hugo said at the Q&A session at the owner's meet... "That's statistically interesting" (with a big grin).

What he means is that it's normal for the same artist to get played twice in a row in a truly random shuffle.

There have been some complaints (some by me) that the randomization routines don't seem to shuffle "hard" enough, so that I get interleaved sets of two artists. They said they will be working on the randomization code a little bit in that area. Perhaps it will be better in 1.1.

and other songs just never get played. Etc etc.

It has long been reported that version 1.1 will have optional "weighted" shuffles, so that least-recently-played songs will tend to trickle toward the top of the shuffle.

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Tony Fabris