Play button now has shuffle built in. Why?

[adrenilinecrash]

Plan- Fam Prem

Country- usa

Device pixel 4a (android)

(See attached pic for example)

My Question- I went to play some music today in my office. The play button when I open an album has shuffle built into it. This is automatic. I looked in the settings and didn't see anything. Looking in play store, it appears my app was last updated 29 July. There were no current updates pending. (I do not allow automatic updates on my phone). So I wonder why this stupid and worthless button change exists. I don't want to shuffle play, I want to regular play. If I want shuffle, I'll select it from the options at the bottom of the screen. Does anyone know why the original play button went away? How to bring it back? Is there something I'm missing? Thanks.

[MafeG]

Hey there @adrenilinecrash,

Welcome to the Community! We're happy to shed some light on the situation

Just to clarify, the green Play button is intended to shuffle play an album or playlist, as it shows the shuffle icon on its right side. You can find more info in this article.

However, in order to listen to an album in order, you only need to tap on the first song of the album and make sure that the Shuffle option is disabled.

You can easily find the Shuffle icon on the Now Playing view and just need to tap on it to enable/disable it.

We hope this clears things up 🙂

[AntWicks]

Just found this post and having just wasted 5 minutes wrestling with it I totally agree with the original poster; Spotify are doing the shuffle option completely wrong. The shuffle option should not be on the Now Playing view; that view relates to a single song - the shuffle option relates to a playlist, not a single song. There's plenty of room next to the green Play button for a shuffle button and that's where it should be. Spotify, this is one of the worst of your many UI mistakes; please fix it!

[jpirespro]

The solution simply didn't work for me.

(I'm a premium subscriber, btw).

The green play button is still there with the random play sign on in my playlists, and the app keeps shuffling songs from different playlists.

It's really annoying!

[Dian]

Hey @jpirespro,

Thanks for posting in the Community.

Do you mean, that the big green play button visible in the upper part of the playlist display has a shuffle sign on it? Could you post a screenshot just to make sure we're talking about the same thing?

If songs from different playlists get played as well, it's worth checking the queue for stray entries. You can find out here how to do that.

Keep us posted,

Cheers!

[ospgrine]

I agree, it doesn't work well, and the overlapping shuffle button is still on top of the play button, but if you keep going back to the playing now (scrolling bar at the bottom, press the first song, and scan to the end of the song to see what comes on next, if its not the 2nd song, rpeat process several times including depressing the shuffle icon, eventually the 2nd song will play. However, as all have said before me, SPOTIFY, PLEASE GET RID OF THIS ANNOYING SETTING, YOU CANNOT MOVE ONTO ANOTHER SONG Way down the playlist. I like my playist to play in order, but want to skip some of it sometimes...it might seem a good idea to you for people listening to shared playlists so the have to listen to it all, but its my playlist, and I want to be able to skip some songs occasionally, + you will cause someone to crash their car with this **bleep**. Please change it back.

[HPie44]

I'm the opposite. I want the shuffle button attached to the play button. It is on my tablet but not on my phone. I've been trying to find how to attach it to the play button on my phone. 

[edevantie]

Dian same issue here. Please see screen recording of the issue. Just to confirm and repeat, the "shuffle" button do not shuffle the playlist but simply toggles the shuffle option on/off. Should be clear in the video what the issue is.

Since you add a max size of 5MB I've created a link for an online view of the screencast: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1fcDEuYD7JbaCm5Pd1HgEKPOrJdgDkfXw/view?usp=sharing

[Yordan]

Hi everyone and thanks for the screen recording @edevantie!

Spotify is currently testing possible improvements to the mobile app, which is why some users see the old Shuffle-Play button, while others have it replaced by the Play button with a Shuffle toggle next to it. I go in a bit more detail in this post, so feel free to check it out.

Take care!