[All Platforms] Option to have a true shuffle

[jonathanleyerle]

So I’ve been noticing more and more recently that Spotify’s default shuffle feature doesn’t fully shuffle your songs. It does some sort of grouping to try to get similar songs together based off of what I’m sure is dozens of factors. Every time I shuffle a playlist (the one I noticed this with the most is ~100 songs and 6 hours of mostly full albums) it will group the songs mostly or completely together by album/artist, and given the number of times I’ve re-shuffled and checked the order there’s no way it’s just a coincidence. They also generally seem to be in the same order as well. If I hit shuffle play on a playlist it’ll generally put the same artists at the beginning every time.

With larger playlists of albums I am really not a fan of this shuffling method. If I have 6 hours of music on a playlist I will hardly ever have 6 hours to actually listen through the whole thing, but when I do listen to it I would like to hear all of the music on it equally, and not just the artist or two your algorithm likes to shuffle to first.

Anyways, I’m a reasonable man, all I’m asking for is an option to have a true shuffle (take all songs in the list, put them in a random order, and once they’re all played reshuffle them and play them again). Make it premium only if you want. I don’t think you should scrap the current shuffle algorithm because it sucks. Looking at some of the suggestions on here it seems like some people lobbied hard to have it that way. Just add an option for a true shuffle for those of us that don’t care about potentially getting the same song twice in a row.

[Undeterred]

I feel sorry for $potify employees, who read this thread but remain powerless to do actually do anything about it, despite having a very obvious solution, and all the while knowing that everyone increasingly thinks they are useless cnuts. Yep, it would suck to work for $potify. Be better.

[pooyair]

Subject: Enhance Random Play Functionalit

Dear Spotify,

I'm writing to suggest an enhancement to the existing random play feature. Currently, when a playlist is set to shuffle, the tracks are played in a seemingly random order. However, I've noticed that there's a pattern where songs that were played consecutively tend to reappear close together in the shuffled queue.

I propose a more truly random playback mode where the probability of any track playing next is completely independent of the previously played tracks. This would provide a more unpredictable and enjoyable listening experience.

Thank you for considering my feedback.

Sincerely,

Pooya Mohammadhossein

Pooya M

Nickname (Ryan)

My Spotify account :**bleep**

[rozeboosje]

Welcome, Pooya, to your suggestion's final destination where it has come to die.

[zx6dude]

Yay. Another merged thread. 

As rozeboosje says, welcome to where all shuffle ideas come to die.

For unknown reasons, Spotify is ignoring this 'live idea'. Whatever the reason is, it's not likely to be technical, as technically the solution is not that complicated. They haven't fixed it in over four years, I don't think they ever will. 

The only workable solution I found to this was to change provider. 

[jlesieur]

• Yup, and that change provider solution works wonders. I mean, unless you prefer giving your money to a corporation who doesn't even respect it's customer base enough to even converse about the idea, but yet you like to continuously complain about it. And you wonder why these companies don't listen....

[Lml19600]

Give true shuffle option as soon as possible. 

[rozeboosje]

... or else?????

[Crisastro]

So ridiculous that this doesn't exist

[zx6dude]

It exists, just not with Spotify 

[americanviolet]

Yes, bring to light the True Shuffle for us premium users who want to hear ALL our playlist songs!