Implement an actual shuffle function

[RoninTheOrigina]

Yes, you read that right.  The "shuffle" function in Spotify is nothing more than a randomizer.  There's a difference?  YES.

RANDOM - Play one song.  The next song can be ANY song in your playlist.  Including the one you just listened to.  Though I've never had this specifically happen, I literally just heard the same song that I heard 2 songs ago.  This is how Spotify's "shuffle" currently functions.

SHUFFLE - Take your entire list, shuffle them (like cards), and play the first song in the shuffle.  Once finished, move that song off the pile.  Once the pile is depleted, shuffle the deck again and start over (maybe pop a message up).

I know enough about programming (not much) to know that shuffling is probably a bit harder than random, but come on.  I may be in the minority, but I don't have a lot of little playlists.  I have one list with nearly a thousand songs in it, because I like all the music, and am rarely not in the mood for one of those songs.  But what I can't stand is hearing the same song over and over again.  I think there may even be songs in my list I haven't heard yet, while I've heard others 4-5 times.

I know it may not matter much, but I would probably lay down the money for at least a year subscription if this feature was implemented.

EDIT: Another user pointed out that I can see what all is queued up in my shuffle by clicking the Play Queue link, and that Spotify supposedly sets up a rolling shuffle of 50 songs.  It would be nice if this range could be expanded to say 50-100% of your playlist.

EDIT 4/6/12: I just dealt with the same song 16 tracks later.  The song played the first time yesterday afternoon.  I went home, listened for a bit on my home PC (just a few songs), then started listening again this morning.  If the list recycles itself after a day, or if you log in from another computer, I see that as an area for improvement.

[DJMWG]

Can you make an actual Shuffle that correctly shuffles. this is annoying and sucks i go through all the work to make a sick playlist over 1000 tracks and it just plays the first 50 over an over. sucks!!!!

[kpwiebe]

Today I had to chuckle:  I skipped a track on shuffle and the song just previous came up.  I haven't had "shuffle" play back-to-back same tracks yet, but I suppose that will happen eventually too.

It's a good thing Spotify doesn't consider this a problem.

[SeanT]

I, and plenty of others consider it to be a problem though.

[RABFM]

The shuffle experiance in Spotify is terrible. I have a playlist of 2,500 songs but hear the same songs overe and over and many songs never. Please fix this Spotify 😞

[Ianuarius]

It's horrible. I keep getting the same artists and not others at all. I've got 5000 songs on a list with only one album from any one artist.

Also, when I hit Shuffle button twice, Spotify just used to switch the upcoming tracks. Now I always got the first song from the list as the next one.

[RABFM]

If shuffle simply didn't repeat a song UNTILL the playlist had been fully played that would solve the problem. Is that hard to introduce Spotify?

[mea_mario]

I would like to see improvemnt as well please.

[octodur]

Yeah shuffle function is really HORRIBLE! As the TC wrote, its a randomizer and not a shuffle. 

When can we actually expect that this function will work as a normal shuffle and not selecting the top most played tracks?

[hossgabi]

Boa tarde,

Tenho ficado bastante insatisfeita com o modo aleatório do spotify.

Quando coloco alguma playlist e opto por ouvi-la de maneira aleatória as músicas se repetem muito, mesmo quando a playlist é grande.

Agradeço desde já,

Att

[Athermes]

Ditto on almost all other comments. It seems like spotify only shuffles about the save 15-20 songs and I never get to hear all my other ones???