With the advent of the iPod, the masses learned just how cool it can be to play huge collections of songs in random sequences. No longer forced to listen passively to an entire CD all the way through ...

Last spring it dawned on Apple CEO Steve Jobs that the heart of his hit iPod digital music player was the "shuffle." This feature allows users to mix up their entire song collections—thousands of ...

Think that song has appeared in your playlists just a few too many times? David Braue puts the randomness of Apple's song shuffling to the test -- and finds some surprising results. Quick -- think of ...

There I was, walking to the railway station, minding my own business, when... bam! Our song. That's the gamble you take when you set your device to "random". Sometimes you get good songs, sometimes ...

This is the story of a scam … probably. It is, if nothing else, the story of one inexplicably successful Bulgarian Spotify playlist. As Music Business Worldwide reported earlier this week, multiple ...