venta | Jazz police are looking through my folders

Right, let's see if anyone's daft enough to play this game :)

At work, I listen to music. I almost always listen to my own mp3s (in complete albums), with occasional diversification into various streaming audio sources (last.fm, Xfm, 6Music, launchcast, etc).

However, I reckon now's my chance to get down with the cool kids, and have a random play list. I could just bung Winamp on shuffle, but where's the fun in that ? You're invited to choose my tracks. But, obviously, you don't know what music I have to hand (about 20Gb of mp3s).

So, you are invited to choose a number, of the form x-y-z.

The x chooses the artist, and should be a number between 1 and 262 inclusive, where 1 is the alphabetically first artist in my collection.

The y chooses the album. So, in general, it should be quite a low number, as I often have only one or two albums per artist. Albums are numbered in ripping order. If you choose a number greater than the number of albums I have by the chosen artist, I'll just take that to be the highest numbered album I've got.

The z chooses the track. So, in general, it should be a number between 1 and about 12 or so. I do have albums with over 20 tracks, though. If you choose a number greater than the number of tracks on the chosen album, I'll just play the last track.

So, as an example, 262-1-10 would be Remember Me, which is the tenth track off the first Zutons' album (The Zutons are the alphabetically last artist I own).

I'll do it as a poll to make life easier, but feel free to comment your number instead. Or feel free to tell me to stop being so damn lazy and make my own playlist. If anyone's interested, I'll post the resulting playlist later this afternoon.

[Poll #442090]

#include <stdio.h> #include <stdlib.h> #include <sys/time.h> #include <time.h> #define MAX_ARTIST 262 #define MAX_ALBUM 5 #define MAX_TRACK 20 int main (int argc, char **argv) { struct timeval tv; gettimeofday (&tv, NULL); srandom ((unsigned int) tv.tv_usec); printf ("%d-", random() % MAX_ARTIST + 1); printf ("%d-", random() % MAX_ALBUM + 1); printf ("%d\n", random() % MAX_TRACK + 1); }

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If you choose a number greater than the number of albums I have by the chosen artist, I'll just take that to be the highest numbered album I've got.

Modulo arithmetic not good enough for ya?

pm215

Since telephone numbers seem too likely to overflow, my choice is my mother's Co-op share number (one of those odd nuggets of information that I don't suppose I'll ever forget).

I recommend the use of modular arithmetic when interpreting the number; otherwise you'll get a totally random track instead of one with deep cosmic significance and 1p dividend to the pound :-)