can't shuffle my queue (new or existing)

[destiny84]

I have a problem with the Shuffle function. 
Spotify 1.0.28.87 on Windows 10. 

My problem is that I have a queue that I want to shuffle, eg. I'm adding some random albums to my queue that I would like to listen to today. Then I hit the shuffle button, which turns green but does nothing. All songs are still played in order.

I also tried activating shuffle first and then adding albums to my queue, also to no avail. 

What I do notice is that the moment I hit shuffle, the tick in front of the songs (songs from my  music) changes to a plus for a split second, then back to a tick. 

Am I doing something wrong or is this a bug? 

[jorgesumi]

Spotify is about to make 60 more dollars a year from me but they cant fix a shuffle. Truely an industry leader.

[Batshiitake]

KippoKid: Think of the queue like a LIVE playlist 

Look at that, Spotify - Kippo just solved your problem for you! Rename "Queue" to "Live Playlist", and suddenly there's absolutely no reason not to give it all the functionality of anything else called a "playlist" - no more dumb workaround suggestions, or even dumber "a queue isn't a queue if it's shuffled because then it's a shuffled queue not a queued shuffle and a that's not a queue because it's shuffled" nonsense required.  Task a couple interns with implementing it, and we're good to go. And, hey, look at that, it only took seven years of ignoring complaints!

(I notice the official posts from Spotify, along with a condescending apologist or two, all have exactly zero likes - something true of almost nothing else in the thread - while others have 20, 30, 60+, never mind something like 350 on the (second) idea link they posted. This is the sort of response they really should find a little concerning. Good thing there isn't a Dislike button)

[jamie197]

You’re missing the point entirely. Everyone here understands how a queue works, so patronizing us with obvious facts isn’t helpful. We’re looking for a real solution, not a lecture on what a queue is.

[RobinS05]

I also want to be able to shuffle the queue, I often add random songs from random playlists or artists to my queue, and then I want to shuffle it. 

If they can’t add it because “a queue is a straight line” or whatever, then you can rename the queue to something else, like “Live Playlist”, or like someone else commented “Temporary Playlist”. If you guys don’t like these names, you guys probably have a professional team that can think of other name ideas.

[wfedc]

Yeah, I have a similar problem. I find the Spotify shuffle button to be pretty useless. It doesn't go through my playlist in order but I use multiple devices. When I swap between them it goes back to where I was in the queue but doesn't shuffle the queue. It means I end up listening to the same few songs over and over again. It's very frustrating.

[GreenDaycare]

Peter, all you would have to do to get the functionality you describe is to unclick the shuffle button. The fact that we are still dealing with this withholding of basic functionality in 2024 is appalling.

[PropaneMilo]

This is ridiculous and unnecessarily hostile to users.

I invited someone to a Spotify Jam while I had a 'Daily Mix' playlist on shuffle, and they added a bunch of songs from various albums which all moved to the top of the queue, clustered into blocks from each album they added from.  It makes sense they would add songs that way, it's convenient for them.  The result, however, is a bad result for everyone because it's an awkward and stilted way to share music for a shared experience.  My playlist is STILL on shuffle, but the Jam queue overwrites the playlist so none of my songs will play until the queue is depleted.

I want to shuffle the Jam queue, but Spotify doesn't allow that.

1) The typical solution is to select the songs in the queue and add them to a playlist, but the queue will only show 81 songs.  80 'next in queue' and the one currently playing song.  I don't know how many songs are in the queue.  Spotify doesn't display the total.  So, this solution is non-viable as it does not solve the problem.

2) The other solution is to manually adjust the order of the songs to split them up.  Sure, I can do that, but it's a fussy and time consuming proposal that only accounts for the next 80 songs.

I would like to acknowledge that if we assume an average song length of three minutes, 80 songs will take four hours to listen to.  Four hours is a long time and I can imagine some people thinking that is more than enough time to listen to music.  However, one person has (while not realising they were displacing other music choices because the UI is not clear) just added over four hours of their stuff with no ability for me to mix their stuff with my stuff because the actual list displayed in Spotify no longer shows any of my stuff.

The queue and Jam system do not work in obvious ways, and are deeply challenging to manage as someone trying to curate the upcoming songs.  The two offered solutions do not solve the problem.

Please reconsider some design decisions regarding the queue and Jam.

P.S. Why do newly queued songs land at the start of the queue and not the end?  I mean, really.