>> … Make it an option then! … I heard the same songs 3-4 times over the course of continuous play for 4 hrs! … What’s wrong? … It is quite frustrating that I only hear the same, say 10-15, songs again and again despite the playlist contains 100+ songs. ,,,
I thank everyone here for giving me and my family accounts all the ideas we need on how to construct and create workarounds for every single one of these deadly flaws in the Spotify shuffle-- Particularly bad since Spotify-- around December 2020 or so-- purposefully blocked us Roadies from running that 2014 last fully functional version 0.9.15.24 of this clunky and deteriorating Spotify interface!
But thanks to all of the ideas from everybody on all of these vociferous and detailed complaint channels!-- Therefrom we have detailed for ourselves how-to corrections and fixes for every complaint about the shuffle that my family accounts have found so far. And the wonderful Spotify devs and managers have been so generous in making even the shuffle on Folder of Sub-Folders and playlists for a total of over 200K tracks of varied songs and genres and albums and artists work perfectly!-- until it breaks-- and then we have to go to our user fix sheets and user programming fixes to recover a perfect shuffle again-- So Thank you, thank you all!
Summary: We Roadie accounts that get perfect shuffles until the shuffle breaks have had to create for ourselves different varieties of means for fixing the shuffle-- by-- Skip the next track from the top of the queue if that track has played in the last 90 days-- Or some number of days that the user sets when the user initializes a true shuffle with no advertising gimmicks or payola gimmicks or (whatever it does that Spotify does instead of just the randomness of any string of digits in any garden variety irrational number).
That above paragraph summarizes the logic of the simple fix for all of these complaints about the Spotify shuffle. And that above summary paragraph summarizes the workarounds that all of us Roadies use for getting successful shuffles for 10,000 tracks at a time.
Spotify already has a check on whether the Next track in the queue is to be skipped because the license to play has expired--
So similarly Spotify could make a very needed programming fix for all of these frustrating and infuriating repeats and repeats of repeats-- just by similarly in tandem skipping the play of that next track if it has been played already by this current account in the last 90 days-- or the number of days set by the user when the user selects TrueRandom shuffling.
Thanks for all of your ideas here-- which all of my family accounts have taken to heart-- and hence by using all of your ideas here-- All of my family accounts get perfect shuffles when they 1) notice immediately when the shuffle has broken-- and then 2) initialize the next true shuffle-- by blasting delete all of those intermediate files that store the repeats that infuriate all of us when the shuffle breaks-- and then 3) copy to an alert file the first 81 tracks of the visible queue-- because most of the time when the shuffle breaks, the Spotify shuffle comes out of the state of confusion-- like after losing the Wi-Fi connection-- and in confusion starts playing the last successful shuffle from the start-- and that is really infuriating-- so you retain that copy of the top of the last successful shuffle as part of your diagnostic check to compare with the queue to notice immediately when the shuffle has broken as many people have said in this and similar forums over and over to warn us all-- Thank you!
Staff / Moderator/ 3 years ago in Social & Random