Sirius Satellite Radio this week launched Sirius "SuperShuffle," a stream that continuously shuffles through all of its music stations and, at random, plays music from any one of its other 100-plus music streams. Today, for example, you could have heard anything from Ratt to Rat Pack (Frank Sinatra and Dean Martin) on SuperShuffle.

So if you're playing this Sirius stream in a room full of people, there will always be a tune on that will annoy someone. The reviews have been mixed. PotentialLaunchWinner writes:

Essentially, this sounds like a Jack FM station. I'm sure a lot of people will like it, and a it seems to be getting favorable comments on the message boards at www.siriusbackstage.com, but I see it as a waste of bandwidth.

If you want to damn a radio station these days, just compare it to a Jack FM station.

(In all fairness, SuperShuffle is like a Jack FM station without commercials.)

Can someone, anyone, explain the obsession these days with shuffling music, and with who is the better shuffler? There's the iPod Shuffle, Jack FM, satellite shuffle. Remember the days when you would actually put an album on a turntable and listen to, um, both sides?

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