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.

[Soundofus]

On the Desktop version, at least, you can already do that.

1 - Turn shuffle on

2 - Double click, in your library (left column), the name of the playlist you want listen to.

3 - Every time you will listen to it, it will start at a different random point.

[Guenwhyvar]

This is really rediculous. My playlist has almost 1,500 songs and today it only plays bands and artists starting with 'A'. 😞

[leon3000924]

06/05/2018

Shuffle is still broken.

Fix**bleep**.

[johnpott]

the function seems to only play the first 10 songs from my 650 song playlist. I’ve deleted the app, logged out, and listened for hours with no avail. this is coming just off the update (may 1, 2018)

[rednblu]

Did you try playing just on your console-- without casting to your fancy speakers?

[Whyyyyyyyyyyyy]

Shuffling is still broken for a large amount of songs. My saved song list is pretty long (around 1000 songs), but I probaly only hear about 200 of the songs (max).

[slicerstoe]

Shuffle also just plays a selection, not a whole playlist. This means you just get the same songs shuffled each time instead of the whole playlist. Please esure even large playlists are fully shuffled and queued, if i have 1000 soongs in a playlist I want all 1000 in the shuffle queue. 

[Esguvo]

This is not implemented at all, I think it is time to start a real boicott over this company, its been 2 years since the last update with no improvement at all.

[nromito]

Since yesterday, I've seen shuffle actually working.  Hopefully it stays that way

[MisterOlga]

The shuffle function on Windows seems to be working quite well.

The mobile (android) shuffle, however, is painfully limited.

To show what I mean, I have ordered a smallish playlist (230 songs) alphabetically and then hit shuffle. Have a look at the pictures I've added.

On Windows, I had songs with the starting letters A-W showing up just in the first couple of queued songs.

Windows view

On mobile, it went up until the letter H, and not further. I even scrolled down to search for it, to no avail.

Android view

By the way, shuffling on PC while listening on the phone works just fine.