Posted on 09/24/2019 11:20:24 AM PDT by mowowie
So i have this Bluetooth speaker loaded with something like 6,000 songs that plays them randomly all night as i work. Yesterday i was at a workstation and East Bound and Down by Jerry Reed started playing around 6am. first time in over two years that song came up on my speaker if ever. I like that song....Smokey and the Bandit and all.. Today at the exact same time i happened to walk by my co-worker who happened to be working at the exact same workstation at the exact same time, 6am and he had the exact same song playing on his speaker. I was like WTF? He said his I-pod was also playing songs in random order and he hasn't heard that somewhat obscure song come up in ages.
What is the probability of THAT happening? It totally freaked us out...
What makes you think it’s a coincidence.
I believe that when you play various streaming services, they may customize your playlist based on your preferences and settings and previous input, but it’s fairly obvious to me that they are also making selections based on some of their own criteria, much of which is monetized. There are costs on their side associated with streaming music just there are with broadcasting it.
Itunes and Apple music also have a lot of things going on behind the scenes affecting decisions, how algorithms are written, and what is currently even being shared. Yes, on some of these services, the media you play you have paid for, but that’s not true strictly speaking if you read the fine print, and that also doesn’t mean that when you select random or shuffle that you are getting anything remotely close to pure randomization.
work station is near a bar. the bar serves beer. coors is advertised at that bar. smokey and the bandit were running coors light east of the mississippi...
bar tender needs to order more beer, uses phone, coors pings his location and the song pops into playlist and electronically to anyone nearby.
Anout a month after my wife passed I had my iPod playing a playlist I had labeled The Good War. First song right off the start on shuffle was Jo Stafford I’ll Be Seeing You. The iPod cycled through the forty or so songs on the playlist and the last song played was Vera Lynn We’ll Meet Again. I don’t feel it was a coincidence.
I always look at my clock at 9:11. Can’t help it.
not so astronomical- we go through periods where it seems l iek almost every time we look at a digital clock it will be at something like 1:11 2:22, 3:33 and so on, and this can go on for quite some time, weeks sometimes- it gets kinda spooky- and might happen a couple of times a year- or at least we notice it happening-
OK everyone, calm down. We just figured out that the Bluetooth speaker was tuned in to the local FM favorite that everyone listens too, especially during "Smokey and the Bandit" week.
Lol, you are absolutely right! It discredited the whole post and rendered it null and void! good catch!
You missed iPod.
Unfortunately even extreme odds do not make it impossible for it being just a coincidence. That’s why they are the odds and not absolutes.
So what’s with the verbal “so” tick being added to our writing?
The spirits of Jerry Reed, Jackie Gleason and Burt Reynolds are smiling upon you..............
We were cresting the summit of Wolf Creek Pass when the iPhone playing songs through the radio selected the CJ McCall song of the same name. I guess God just wanted us to know He was watching us.
I think the odds are a little higher than that..........
Pre-loaded MP3’s.
Mine is on a flash drive plugged into the back of my speaker.
My co-worker has an old I-pod with thousands of songs loaded on it.
both play the MP3’s randomly thoughout the night.
He was on the other side of the building when i was listening to the song.
Today i happened to walk by the exact location i was at yesterday at almost the exact time (6am) and there was the song playing out of his speaker...
I caught just the tail end of it and turned around i said “Hey, that kind of sounded like the Smokey and the Bandit song”
He replied “yea it was...East bound and Down by Jerry reed”
I was like HUH?
> Jo Stafford I’ll Be Seeing You... and the last song played was Vera Lynn We’ll Meet Again <
There is a saying. Coincidences are G_d’s way of remaining anonymous.
Was talking about buying a boat with a buddy and the next thing I know, I’m getting bombarded by all these advertisement on my phone for used boat dealerships. I didn’t use my phone to google anything, was just talking. My phone was in the room, but not near me at the time... scary crap right there. I’ve also had the phone come up with playlist recommendations after “listening” to what I was playing on my car radio. I disabled the microphone which SEEMS to have taken care of it.
I am not rendering that in the text and HTML, It must be your own browser. :)
Could be the Maui Wowie man...
Been there... :)
What were the odds that you’d type the exact same comment #1 as your original post, with all the exact same grammatical errors?
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