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I'd like to write an “ultimate shuffle” algorithm to sort my mp3 collection

I'm looking for pseudocode suggestions for sorting my mp3 files in a way that avoids title and artist repetition. I listen to crooners - Frank Sinatra, Tony Bennett, Ella Fitzgerald etc. singing old ...
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Randomly select from list with increased odds

I have a list of entities. Every entity contains a number that holds how many times the entity has been selected. I need to make a function that selects n (say 25%) of the entities, randomly. What I ...
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How to generate random numbers without making new Random objects?

I'm using this as part of a game, but it's not really a game development question, so I'm putting it on this more general Stack Exchange. The goal is to generate "random" outputs for a fixed integer ...