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Callesoroe
Oct 30, 2013Aspirant
Haveged on ReadyNas Ultra ?
I am running LMS (squeezebox) on my readynas ultra. There is a problem with the Random mix. The problem is that it isn't very random. The problem could be this that I have read about: http://www.i...
RichieB1
Oct 31, 2013Aspirant
I took another look at the code (current 7.8 nightly). In Slim/Plugin/RandomPlay/Plugin.pm on line 571 this funtion is called:
Slim::Utils::OSDetect->getOS()->sqlHelperClass()->randomFunction()
In Slim/Utils/SQLiteHelper.pm on line 229 this funtion is defined as 'RANDOM()'.
So it indeed (still) uses the internal SQL random function. A quick look at the sqlite 3.8.1 source code indeed mentions a PRNG implementation in the comments. Very strange.
Slim::Utils::OSDetect->getOS()->sqlHelperClass()->randomFunction()
In Slim/Utils/SQLiteHelper.pm on line 229 this funtion is defined as 'RANDOM()'.
So it indeed (still) uses the internal SQL random function. A quick look at the sqlite 3.8.1 source code indeed mentions a PRNG implementation in the comments. Very strange.
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