I did a startup making a mp3 player that was attached to whole house audio distribution systems.
We got an angry email from a customer saying he woke up to ABBA playing full blast at 3:00am. While it was likely an integration/timer issue, he was wondering 'why ABBA? what is the player trying to tell me?"
The control system was sending 'play' with nothing else, which was more of an edge case based on our UI, and so it started at the beginning of the list of artists, and ABBA was at the beginning of that list.
Other players might have started at the beginning of the list of songs, but for some reason (25 years ago) we chose the beginning of the list of artists.
Later on it was configurable - random, favorite playlist, etc.
The control system was sending 'play' with nothing else, which was more of an edge case based on our UI, and so it started at the beginning of the list of artists, and ABBA was at the beginning of that list.
Other players might have started at the beginning of the list of songs, but for some reason (25 years ago) we chose the beginning of the list of artists. Later on it was configurable - random, favorite playlist, etc.