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Of course, nothing more than probability at work, and the effect of having pre-selected all of the tunes in there in the first place. Many of them were bound to resonate somehow.

…the Shuffle can pull random songs off of a hard drive and mix them up on the device so that you’ll never know what you’ll get when you listen to it. But we experience the uncertainty of randomization and the unexpected when we listen to the radio, too, so something else is going on here.

The potential for hearing something completely new, I think. Listening to the radio, you know you’re taking a chance that some of the music will be familiar, some not. It’s out of your hands. Asking your shuffle to rifle through your music collection and come up with something to entertain you for the next few hours, you know what you’re going to get, roughly, but not what effect the combination of those songs will hold. What your music will do to your psyche when all jumbled up.