[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.

[oddindeed]

STOP IT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[Balkankallj]

FIX SPOTIFY'S SHUFFLE. How can you even call it a shuffle. Even though I've deleted my cache and restartet the app many times, when I go to my playlist and select shuffle, not only one or two of the same songs get played, BUT IT'S THE SAME 6-7 SONGS IN THE SAME ORDER EACH TIME. It is mathematically impossible! I have three hours of different songs I want to hear. PLEASE make it more random, I know A LOT of people feel the same way. It's so frustrating!!

[lwolbach08]

I have had this problem every day for the past year, across devices, and especially with the new DJ feature. Shuffle a playlist or start a new DJ session on a new device and you will get exactly the same "shuffled" music in the exact same order. Its like the device is improperly holding onto cached information from previous sessions. This is day one stuff for a music streaming platform...

[avibh]

strongly support this issue, I have a 70 hour playlist and the same songs appear each time. no matter which song I choose to start with, the same songs appear later on

[lilyjayrob]

lol how does this suggestion still live on with 155 pages of comments and 4000+ votes but not a single legitimate* update from Spotify

[Mookpsu]

Because they don't give a s**t about their customers

[rozeboosje]

Oh but they DO give a *boingboingtweedledeedee* about their customers. You just need to realise that their main customers are record labels, then after a gaping chasm followed by their "top artists", followed after a desert of insignifance by their less important artists and then after an interminable void of nothingness by you, their "spotify premium" paying customer who is silly enough to keep paying for the privilege of being shat on from a great height by spotify.

Hope that helps to explain it.

[oberkvlt]

Come on Spotify, at least admit you don't **bleep**ing care about your customers.

I made a Youtube Music subscription a while ago because of this. You made me HATE music because you made me listen to the same 30 songs.

[zx6dude]

Yup, I moved to another provider because I started hating songs I used to love. 

All Spotify care about is making money, they aren't making money from me though. 

[Slip269]

I currently have a 4 month trial of Amazon music unlimited (I predominantly consume music on my Xbox so limited on choices)

Transferred my 1200 or so liked songs over in 5mins without any hassles,  so far enjoyed a night of unbiased random shuffled music I've not heard in months!!!

The desktop/android apps seem ok (only had a quick look), however the Xbox app is clunky and browsing songs isn't the best experience,  also since importing my liked songs I can no longer add or remove liked songs on the Xbox which is a pain if I'm listening to something recommended which I like and want to add there and then.  This feature works fine on the desktop/android.

Also, as part of the premium subscription it features some songs in UHD & Dolby Atmos, this doesn't appear to be so on the Xbox app which ironically is where my Dolby Atmos is attached,  having said that I don't think Spotify has any UHD songs on the Xbox either.

Another bugbear is you can't continue where you left off on another device, if you open the android app whilst on the xbox it'll just try log you out and start over,  this is a great feature on Spotify.

All in all, Spotify has some great features, the UI is good on the android and Xbox, but ultimately it's a platform for consuming music and it's seriously broken with the repetitiveness biased playlists

I'm prepared to use the amazon app on the Xbox despite not being able to add/remove any songs just to get a random listening experience.