You don't really explain your listening scenario here.... ?
If you just quietly sit there and let WMP shuffle away, it should go from 1
to n in a random order. If you start clicking around and skipping to a
different song, as opposed to Back / Next, you're resetting the queue, I
believe.
I don't believe WMP uses any sort of weighted shuffle.

I listen to my music on WMP10 (home)/WMP11 (work) on random (20000+ My Music
playlist or my ~2500 song 4 or 5 Stars or higher (auto)playlist) and don't
run into this problem. The shuffle logic did undergo a significant beefing
up in WMP10, and I can't speak to WMP11. =)

Thanks for the feedback, though.

-Z
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"kVadrum" <kVadrum@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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>I know shuffle sucked in WMP 9. And I know there are aftermarket plugins
> that are designed to offer more robust shuffling features.
>
> But seriously now, WMP 10 shuffling is horrible. I've got 10K songs, and
> I
> usually listen to playlists of around 1000-2500. Literally, and I do mean
> literally, I will hear 50 songs. I play music all day long. The same
> song
> can come up four or five times in ONE DAY.
>
> Now, I assume the shuffle algorithm at least partially uses the rating
> system to define what it plays. However, every single song in the system
> has
> been ranked manually, so the self-fulfilling prophecy of the more times I
> accidentally hear a song I hate the more likely I am to hear it again is
> not
> applicable.
>
> It also appears that the machine designs a single, shuffled list, and
> follows it exactly, rather than continually shuffling.
>
> Maybe there is some settings I can tweak I don't know about?
>
> If not, SERIOUSLY, this should be a major point of development for version
> 11. Give us serious shuffling tools:
>
> Scale of 1-10
>
> Liklihood of playing music from the same artist within X plays.
> Liklihood of playing the same song in X plays.
> Give preference to songs ranked highly.
> Give preference to songs ranked lowly.
> Give preference to songs that have been manually ranked.
> Follow songs with another with similar tones, BPM, etc.
>
> And that's just a start - I've never explored any of the aftermarket
> shufflers, but I'm guessing they have some similar scales as above, plus
> surely a bunch more.
>
> Please. This would be a massive improvement to a great product.