[jmarshall]

regarding the randomness, i don't think that calling srand(timegettime()); rand() is necessarily a reliable random sequence - the "random" number is tied to close to the current time. it gets even worse if you modulo it as the low bits of rand() are less variable than the high bits. this is used elsewhere in xbmc as well and is the reason for a number of other phenomena such as the slideshow random angles not being particularly random.

perhaps we could have a random number class that seeds once and then uses the one sequence (up until a set number of drawings, then re-seed it) so that we can get reasonable randomness? i think using srand() and rand() is fine as long as we do it sensibly.

also, we could have a history vector of song ids for database::getrandomsong() to eliminate the issues pike is seeing for say 100 songs or so.

party mode looking great though - i like it

cheers,
jonathan