The Shuffle function in Spotify seems to be a common point of frustration for many Spotify users, and I'm one of them. I've read various blogs explaining that it's quite difficult to implement, but I really don't think it is. I'm a Web Developer, and although I'm not a hardcore programmer, the logic of playing a random song without repeating seems quite easy to me. See my Javascript/PHP-like syntax below: $playlist = Array('Song 1','Song 2', 'Song 3'); //etc...
$playedAlready = Array();//Empty array, as we haven't played any yet.
$randNum = round(rand(0,$playlist.length));//This would round to a whole number, and return a random value between 0 and the number of items in the $playlist variable Spotify::Play($playlist[$randNum]); //Plays a random track from the playlist $playedAlready[] = $playlist[$randNum];//Adds this track to the playedAlready list unset($playlist[$randNum]);//This then deletes the song entry from the playlist, so it can't possibly be part of the random selection again //After the song has finished, the above process is looped.
This is obviously a very basic concept but the idea is there. Why haven't the Spotify team implemented something as simple as that?
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