I use the Shuffle option in MusicBee. It is set to Shuffle Randomly and Shuffle Tracks individually. I have a little over 2600 songs in my library.
Question (and a few sub-questions):
When is the shuffle actually used to generate the order of songs?
Is the list generated only once, when the library is created?
Or does it re-generate when the shuffle option is toggled on and off?
Sometimes I will select a song individually, then go back to full library, while leaving the Shuffle option on. Would that re-generate the shuffle order?
Reason for the question - So I use this program about an hour a day, on average. It seemed like I was getting some repeats, which is not a big deal. But when I moved my music a couple weeks ago, I took the opportunity to create a new playlist (don't recall how old the previous one was, maybe 1 year). What I found was that I was hearing songs I had not heard in a very long time (longer than the time period since generating my last playlist). That seemed odd to me, unless the answers to all the above questions are a yes.