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.

[gungajim]

I have my 1,000 favorite songs on a playlist. I am really disappointed to find that it can't be shuffled (at least there is no shuffle icon in view). Also, I am really disappointed to find that I can't download the names of the songs & artist in a playlist into a spreadsheet. 

[gungajim]

Your HELP function is horrible for a new user. 

[Javierba]

Help and shuffle are horrible

[cabiscab]

 please please write the program to play every song in a playlist at least once or add a snooze a song for a month option. I have created playlist but on shuffle some songs get played more than other. I like those songs but want to hear a better shuffle.

[Shajuanthesheep]

I have a playlist of only 100ish songs. I usually only listen to about 5-10 songs at a time but I listen to it at least 2-3 times a day. I’ve been listening to this playlist for a couple weeks now. I’ve only heard about 15 of the songs on the playlist.

[Ppozniak]

I was forced to remove from my library another a few bands because they always appeared after shuffle.

It's so predictible that I really started to hate some of my bands.

I have 2000+ songs. Please some mathematican tell me what's the probability of hearing the same band that has something around 15 songs after every shuffle play in a window of 20 first songs?

[Ppozniak]

Also Spotify deleted my Idea of turning this topic back to Open, and made it a redirect to this post. Pathetic.

[rednblu]

      >>  Also Spotify deleted . . . . <<

Yes, Spotify does many things wrong-- for example, Spotify has disabled the most important modern necessities from this wrongly labeled forum as "Implemented ideas".  (all guffaw)

However, the Spotify shuffle works perfectly on every installation of Windows 10 Spotify player running the latest version-- currently 1.0.83.344 on my only Windows 10 installation that I have not [Blocked all Spotify updates].

You just have to use the Windows 10 Spotify player in the mode that it works for you.  For example, to avoid infuriating repeats and inserted advertisements, I had to run my Windows 10 Spotify player thusly--

* Never use the Connect feature-- because the Connect feature apparently always repeats some batch of just 100 tracks from somewhere-- not even from my actual playlist of any size above 100 tracks.

* Every time I restart my Windows 10 Spotify player, I have to initialize the shuffle to On-- by shuffle playing from just one single 9000 track playlist.

* Then I click on my Huge Playlist folder containing 10 of my 9000 track playlists-- Then I click the Green Play button-- And then my Windows 10 Spotify player does not repeat in any fashion that detracts from my hearing a gorgeous sampling of the wide array of impressive performances of music from all over the world and over all time-- playing for days without stopping and without any repeats that bother me.

Has everyone here found a way to make the shuffle on the Windows 10 Spotify player work perfectly by never using the Connect feature?

[PennySpeaks]

​How do you turn Off the connect feature?

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[kbartley8]

Shuffle STILL doesn't shuffle very well. If i shuffle all of my songs, I get the same 4 artists or albums on repeat. I have thousands of saved songs. I shouldn't hear the same album for a long time between songs. Today, I'm actually getting ONE  album shuffling for the past 8 songs!!! Nope just changed songs, make that 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14... Please make spotify actually shuffle ALL of my music.