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.

[sean_spiteri]

Been having the same problem for awhile now. It's come to the point were I can predict which song is going to play. Extremely frustrating, but doesn't look like anything's going to be done about it.

[lindseylarsen15]

The shuffle feature on spotify is pretty bad. When I'm listening to my playlists, it usually stays within a small section at a time instead of boucing around the entire list.. So what ends up happening is I get a lot of the same artist all at once and then hardly anything from that artist later. Is there any way to change the way Spotify shuffles?

[DriftingNarwal]

Why is this still broken? Spotify? How have you not fixed this. It's been an issue for 6 years for christs sake. It should be truly random. We shouldn't have to ask for this. I have over 3,000 songs in my library and I want to hear all of them. Not just the same few songs over and over. 

[Bodestone]

They had the nerve to offer me the 3 months for a tenner again.

Given my spotify usage would be shuffling my playlists via googole home why would I pay any money for no functionality.

I did also ask them not to advertise to me until they had this resolved. They agreed. they failed on that too but not too fussed about that.

Make the sodding shuffle work across a whole playlist regardless of platform.

If it can't be done offer random play. 3 more people have cancelled subscition since the last time I mentioned it, That's ony 23 out of millions but that's also only this thread.

Maybe it's time to take it to the wider media so that people can go to other platforms before the initial outlay if their primary play method is shuffle/random as spotify basically does not support that.

[bbr]

Shall we start a Twitter hashtag? Anyone likes the idea please suggest
hashtags.

#SpotifyCantShuffle
#SpotifyFixTheShuffle
#SpotifyShuffleSucks (Powerful if you ask me but lacks manners)

[whitworth]

An excellent idea. I do agree though that the last one lacks manners/respect. Better to take the mature/reserved approach I think!

[shenanijen]

I tweeted with #spotifyfixtheshuffle. Good idea!

[martijntulp]

I did the same! Let's hope we can FINALLY make them listen if we all tweet!

[bbr]

Good good. I can see the results when i search the hashtag. Also did a
search "spotify shuffle" and spotted some people complaining and i am
letting them know about the hashtag. Also, do not forget to add spotify and
spotifycares to the tweets. Go go go 🙂

[pdsthief_29]

I have been advice by Spotifycares to write in here, I'm not sure why when I already told them the problem, but yeah, I just downloaded the latest update and the shuffle is AWFUL, even worse than before, it always starts with the first 10 songs in a 800-song playlist, and since I am on free of course I can only skip up to 6. Every time I close it and reopen the app the playlist starts back up from the same 10 songs, it's awful and not really a shuffle. At one point it didn't really shuffle the songs at all and it just played like 5 songs from the same artist in a row. This is absolute bs.