[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.

[zx6dude]

What I really don't get, is the way Spotify are ignoring this. At least come clean and say you can't/won't do it and why.

Ignoring paying customers (ex customer in my case) is not the way to go. 

Giving a canned nothing answer is even worse than being ignored. It's insulting. 

I find Spotify's treatment of their customers as far as this issue is concerned appalling. I think this forum is here just so they can tick a box saying that they provide a customer service. 

I do miss some Spotify features, but I'm glad I'm not giving them my money anymore. 

[wearedunn4]

I have over 4500 hundred songs in my 'Liked' playlist and I still hear the same songs from day to day.  Makes zero sense.  If I want to hear the same songs more often, I'll make a playlist ;).

[José4]

Ordem aleatória sem repetições!

[rozeboosje]

Now look what you've done. Now they've started begging in Portuguese.

[Mookpsu]

Rozeboosje they don't respond to English so maybe Portuguese is the secret!

[rozeboosje]

Repareer die kutshuffle stelletje kloothommels.

Bitte das Shuffledingsbumms reparieren aber schnell bitte.

Shøflefixenbjorkbjorkbjork

[Mookpsu]

Rozeboosje or German!

[Ouaiouairespect]

Hi Andres. Are you **bleep**ing dumb ?

[zx6dude]

Oh goodness! Another merged thread! 

Vamos lá Spotify: ordem aleatória sem repetições. Repitam comigo: sem repetições. 

[rtuite81]

I've noticed this on my long playlists. I have several basic genre playlists that I listen to all the time as background noise. While I don't really focus on any one song, I do notice when the same songs come up repeatedly. I have one playlist that has about 500 songs and dozens of artists. It will get stuck alternating between 2 artists.I have almost 31 hours of music on this one playlist, I shouldn't hear the same song twice in a day.