Can you shuffle an album in the numerical order it appears on in the original track listing? Like, let’s say the album has 14 songs, statistically, if you shuffle enough times then the order of the songs would appear in the track list order, no?

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Can you shuffle an album in the numerical order it appears on in the original track listing? Like, let’s say the album has 14 songs, statistically, if you shuffle enough times then the order of the songs would appear in the track list order, no?

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Answer 1

Theoretically – yes. If you have a fourteen-track album, you have a 1/14 chance of song number one being played first, a 1/13 chance of song number two being played second, etc. The odds are low though – for a 14-track album, the odds are 1/14!, or 1 in 87,178,291,200.

That said, the shuffle algorithm may prevent this from happening, as the point of shuffle is to _not_ have the songs play in album order.