The Love of Randomness

The new firmware in my Jukebox has a wonderful feature. Todally random play. It just picks up a track from anywhere on the disk and plays it. Followed by another and another and another. It is like having my own personal radio station. I'm even going to put a whole load of the best radio adds (including the Budweiser "Real American Heroes") on there as well to make things even more authentic. I've already got "On The Hour" for the news. Not heard of "On the Hour"? Excellent spoof radio news show from the BBC. Spawned The Day Today, an even better TV news spoof show which also launched Alan Partridge. I've just bought the DVD of that. Cures you of ever taking TV news seriously. Should be required viewing for all.

Anyhoo, I think the IPOD has had random play since it was first sold, but for us who have been using disk based MP3 Players for longer than that, it is a new feature to us. It has made me realise just how much good stuff that there is on that there disk. I've now reached the point where I'm thinking about keeping this particular machine because it's taste is so good......