topic Re: No normal shuffle in Desktop (Mac)

No normal shuffle

Virty — Tue, 23 Sep 2025 10:12:31 GMT

Plan

Premium

Country

Germany

Device

Macbook Pro 2023

Operating System

15.6.1

My Question or Issue

The shuffle has a bug. You cannot turn on normal shuffle. Either shuffle is off or it is the shuffle that puts in random songs into the playlist.

Re: No normal shuffle

Yordan — Tue, 23 Sep 2025 11:13:46 GMT

Hi there, @Virty,

That's odd. Have you noticed this with a specific playlist or with all your playlists? It's worth trying out all steps from the app's built-in troubleshooting menu located at the top of the screen, under Help to see if that does the trick.

Should the issue persist, consider performing a clean reinstall of the app - this will get rid of any potentially corrupted cache and ensure you're running the latest version of Spotify available.

Let us know how it goes 👍.

Re: No normal shuffle

Virty — Tue, 23 Sep 2025 11:22:10 GMT

Hi,

I checked multiple playlists. It was the same across multiple, so I assume they all had the problem.

The "Reload" option from the troubleshooting option did not help.

The "Disable Hardware Acceleration and Restart" did solve it. I then re-used this option to turn hardware acceleration back on, and the fix persisted.

Thank you

Re: No normal shuffle

Fozzy325 — Tue, 23 Dec 2025 03:52:05 GMT

I Have done this every second day, It works when re installed but after a day or two it greys out and is blocked. It has activated the smart shuffle but I don't want that and i cant turn it off.

Re: No normal shuffle

Yordan — Tue, 23 Dec 2025 08:44:55 GMT

Hi, @Fozzy325,

Have you tried using the keyboard shortcut Alt + S (Mac) / Ctrl + S (Windows) to see if toggling Shuffle on/off that way does the trick?

Should the issue persist, please share the version of Spotify you're running, along with a short screen recording which captures the exact behavior in action so we can investigate further.

Cheers 🤘

Re: No normal shuffle

Infinitmon — Thu, 05 Feb 2026 02:59:26 GMT

Please put the off toggle of Smart Shuffle on desktop

Re: No normal shuffle

Idk83 — Wed, 11 Mar 2026 05:27:15 GMT

Can smart shuffle just be off in the first place? Its a dumb idea.