Improved Randomization Logic
The current Randomizing option will cycle through photos however it tends to repeat multiple photos throughout the slideshow. I especially noted that if the photo frame goes to sleep for some time, it seems to start back at the beginning of the previous randomization cycle.
An improved randomization logic would be one where photos will not repeat, until every picture has been viewed. This could be accomplished with a logic that would have to maintain a table of all the photos listed and it would randomly hit each photo, but without repeating. Once the last photo is triggered, then the logic would restart.
It would also require to be flexible and have a method to interject or add photos to the list or series as the frame receives them.i
Hello,
our implementation already works exactly as you describe:
step 1 a list of all the picture to be played in the slide show is built.
step 2 their position (index) is shuffled in the list by changing randomly their position.
so this method is a 100% guaranty that each picture plays only 1 for sure.
of course if you do have duplicate inside the frame then in the random they are also duplicate.
but the random method by itself for sure does not create duplicate it is impossible with this method.
The Pix-Star Team.
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Tina Kas commented
I agree with the person that wrote in. I have noticed that it recycles the same photos in a day after it goes to sleep. It starts the cycle in the same exact way with the same beginning photo. I do not have duplicate photos. The random mode does need some tweaking. I have over 500 pictures in the frame, some in web albums and some that we through email. I do think the random is not as random as I would like it to be. I