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.

[Bmarti0903]

I have found a solution to the poor shuffle algorithm that extremely reduces the likely hood of repeated songs.
Everyone has they're favorite playlist with 100's of songs and here's the same batch of songs every time they listen. Almost a year has gone by since Spotify started ignoring users frustrations with poor shuffle.

When you're going to listen to your playlist for more than 30 minutes, create a custom station with your playlist as the seed. This incorporates all your music into the new station and will have a true random Selection.

**still seeing my radio pull the same 20 songs from my playlist. It's not a perfect solution but repeats are way less. I listen to Spotify 6-8 hours a day and lately have been resorting to YouTube and pandora for a real shuffle.

[rednblu]

                                        Users have to do
                  Their own "program fixes" to Spotify bugs

Thanks, @Bmarti0903-- We have to make all of these "program fixes" to the Spotify player bugs ourselves

My friends also suggested to me that I manually "Start Song Radio" on a different "random" track in my playlist every three hours.

I find that I have to do a new "Start Song Radio" every three hours-- because all Spotify players start loopy looping in three hours.

[rednblu]

                                   Nós, os usuários, temos que fazer
                    Nosso próprio "programa correções" para Spotify falhas


Olá meu amigo @Grando,

Eu gosto do que você escreve sobre as falhas Spotify em reproduzir músicas aleatórias-- Em vez de reproduzir músicas aleatórias, Spotify começa a repetir as músicas.

@Bmarti0903 sugeriu que nós tentamos o Spotify Radio para reduzir as repetições de músicas.

E meus amigos me sugeriram que eu manualmente "Iniciar o rádio Spotify em uma única faixa" em uma pista "aleatória" diferente em minha lista de reprodução a cada três horas.

Acho que tenho que fazer um novo "Iniciar o rádio Spotify em uma única faixa" a cada três horas-- porque todos os tocadores Spotify começa a se repetir as musicas em três horas.

Obrigado, @Grando, por me permitir praticar o meu português.

[Jason316]

So youre saying go to my playlist radio?

[Jason316]

So youre saying go to my playlist radio?

[Bmarti0903]

Yeah open your playlist and click the ... in the top right corner and click

[Bmarti0903]

Yeah open your playlist and click the ... in the top right corner and click

[Jason316]

Im not too crazy about the playlist radio because it plays songs i dont
even know

[familj_elgh]

Same problem here. My view is that the function has become worse the last weeks. Before only one or two songs were repeated but now it is like only 10 different songs that are repeated in the list of 50. Really not what you expect when your play list consist of 3000+ songs. Need to be corrected asap.

[UrShuffleSucks]

Still sucks hard core. This is ridonculous, why are you playing the same artist? Your shuffle is only skipping 3 songs down, THATS NOT A SHUFFLE! Random is not that hard, I program it all the time. Lazy **bleep** coding.