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		xxs on May 22, 2019 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: A new core playlist for VLC 4 The main issue would be naively using mod to obtain a number in range of (0-n].

jchw on May 22, 2019 | [–]

I understand the issue with modulo bias, but there's plenty of techniques for dealing with that issue. (Not to say that people always do, even in real-world code, but oh well.)

rom1v on May 22, 2019 | [–]

TBH, I think this is acceptable for a playlist random order, even if it's not perfectly evenly distributed.

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