The Internet Just Discovered Why Playlists Feel Better On Shuffle

Your favourite feature is quietly lying to you, and you love it.

True random shuffle actually feels wrong to human ears.

Real randomness clumps. It will happily play the same artist three times in a row, and your brain screams that the shuffle is broken.

So many music apps quietly tweak their shuffle to spread artists out, making it feel more random by being less random.

That 'perfect' shuffle you swear by is a gentle illusion, engineered so your commute never feels rigged.