Same random number every time?

[Taipan]

Hi,

I have a program for selecting and playing music. One function is a random function to line up 10 random songs from the database. Thing is every time I run the program it generates the same series of random numbers. My code starts by getting the number of songs from the database. So it can generate the random number between 1 and the total number of songs.

Rand = Int((Num_Songs * Rnd) + 1)

At the moment Num_Songs = 5133 and when I generate the 10 random numbers I get 3622, 2739, 2975, 1487, 1550, 3977, 72, 3905, 4181, 3640 every time. So every time I start the program and press random I get the same 10 songs queue up. What am I doing wrong?

[PeejAvery]

You are missing one small yet major thing.

Randomize
Rand = Int((Num_Songs * Rnd) + 1)

[Taipan]

Doh .. thanks

[PeejAvery]

Doh .. thanks

You're welcome. Don't fret it, we all forget little "random" things.

[dglienna]

Make sure that you use RANDOMIZE at least once in your program, or you app will pick the same sequence each time you start the app.

[Comintern]

Make sure that you use RANDOMIZE at least once in your program, or you app will pick the same sequence each time you start the app.

Even better is to use RANDOMIZE only once in your program. For this application is would't really matter, but RANDOMIZE re-seeds the random number generator using a non-random value. So, as counter-intuitive as it seems, the more times you call RANDOMIZE the less randomly distributed the numbers will be.

BTW,

I heard that if you play the Windows CD backwards, you'll hear satanic messages.
But the most frightening thing is, if you play it forward, it installs Windows!

LOL

[PeejAvery]

LOL

Yes, I am a Mac user.