math.random not working

[MicroMacro]

Hey there.
I'm trying to make the main menu select randomly between 4 love audio sources that I've created.

Problem is math.random won't work; it always returns 1.

The code couldn't be simpler:

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song = music.mood.happy[math.random(1,4)]

Anyone have any idea why math.random is only returning 1? I've tried putting it to a variable (i.e; music.mood.happy[randomNumVar]) but that also only returns 1.

Thanks.

[MicroMacro]

EDIT: I figured it out. I forgot to call math.randomseed() beforehand. I basically use os.time() to get the seed.

[slime]

You could also use [wiki]love.math.random[/wiki] instead. LÖVE sets the random seed for love.math.random before love.load is executed, so you don't need to set a seed yourself if you use it.

[Bindie]

You could also use [wiki]love.math.random[/wiki] instead. LÖVE sets the random seed for love.math.random before love.load is executed, so you don't need to set a seed yourself if you use it.

Man, I didn't know that. Thank you.