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.

[Ajkost13]

My problem isn't so much as the same song is played within a short number of tracks, but that it plays the same ARTIST or ALBUM in bulk. Say I have 10 albums by 5 artists in a playlist, the "shuffle" will choose either two albums or artists and play maybe 5 songs by one artist/album then move to another artist/album and finish off the rest of the songs in that Category before even TOUCHING the remaining 3 artists. It's annoying as heck.

[nimmerdor]

The order of the shuffled playlist depends on the sort order of all music in the original playlist (by artist / by track / by date). Approximately first 100 tracks will be chosen in the shuffle. What about the rest of the tracks? This works like this on my PC. The list on the tablet is well shuffled.

[user-removed]

Spotify,

Dude. Y'all have GOT to stop this whole thing where when I press 'shuffle' it shuffles the last 100 or so songs I saved. Sometimes, I forget about a song on my 1000+ song playlist, and it's nice to be reminded of it. 

Also, can we just all agree that we're SO SICK of certain songs being unsaved, only for us to realize this a few months later? Give us back the Spotify of 2013. Let us just love our music.

[thefrenchgate]

Absoluteley terrible.

After 5/6 yrs of use, 2000+ playlist, NOW plays "blocks" of same artist, when it used to skip between all artists, a pain, not what it used to be. Please respond to this, or will have to look elswhere.

[andrew_edquid95]

I've found when attempting to shuffle my playlists, spotify often goes on a streak of playing songs by the same artist, making the option of shuffling useless. Even pandora or Apple Music does better.

[francis2martine]

Please, let the shuffle button of a playlist to actually play ALL songs in that playlist. 

[kristofferbarta]

I can see that some changes was added and updated 2016-02-05. This is still a big issue, pleasue have another look into this issue. Im tired of hearing the same songs over and over again. Usually in the same order. It seems like the algorithm like to pick the songs recently added to the playlist.

Im sure you can make this better if you have another look into it.

Kind Regards

[Ben_JM]

Needs fixing.  Same songs playing all the time, there’s no excuse anymore. Fix it.

[swagmacjagger]

agreed i hit shuffle on my saved music, all it was playing was Eminem or
Elton John out off the other artists i had saved under there

[rednblu]

  >>  . . .  all it was playing was . . . .

  >> Same songs playing all the time . . . .

When that happens, your Spotify shuffle is not even On; it is reading an obsolete buffer.

To fix your Spotify shuffle, you just watch your Play queue while you toggle your shuffle OffAndOn-- Finally, you will see your shuffle kick in, and on your Play queue, you will see tracks from top, middle, and bottom of the list you are playing.

Cheers and shuffles . . . .