Song Groupings while Shuffled

[johnnyking]

I think a good idea for playlists would be to enable an option to group up songs so that when the playlist is shuffled, those chosen songs will play in the selected order set by the user. For instance, 'Jaden' has 4 songs on his album 'SYRE' that are meant to be played in the order they are in the album. This song grouping idea would mean that when the first song, 'B' plays, the 3 remaining songs, 'L' 'U' and 'E' would proceed it, allowing for a shuffled playlist experience that can also retain the listening experience that artists intended for us.

[Luan]

Updated on 2023-09-22

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[illya]

Sometimes musical works, especially longer works, are broken down into smaller sections such as movements that are split up into separate tracks on recordings. This happens a lot in classical music and some other genres (eg, symphonies are often split up by movement into separate tracks on recordings). Unless I'm studying a particular section of one of these works, I want to hear the whole piece. Just as it would be irritating to have incomplete pieces of 10 different pop songs come up on shuffle or Discover Weekly, it is irritating when it happens with other musical works. The mistaken assumption that each individual track on a recording represents a single complete work and that users only listen to individual tracks of recordings separately makes shuffle, Spotify-generated playlists, and radio all quite dysfunctional to unusable for users that listen to multitrack recordings.

Tracks belonging to the same recording of the same work could be grouped together - iTunes calls this "groupings" and has a function to "shuffle by grouping". This should be implemented on Spotify to improve functionality for all who listen to works with multiple movements, etc. Ideally it would be a toggle in settings so that the feature could be turned on and off.

[illya]

Can we have a fix for this issue in autoplay and shuffling playlists, a la iTunes' Shuffle by Grouping?