[Mobile] [Other] Smart Shuffle toggle setting in settings menu

[LiamTems]

Smart shuffle is a fun way to discover new songs, but it comes at a cost. Want to reshuffle your queue? Bam, wait a few seconds longer. Want to unshuffle your playlist? Bam, no longer works, and goes to a completely random place in the playlist.

To me this is an unwanted complication, and I'd much rather be able to choose in the settings menu whether I want to enable the Smart Shuffle feature, or disable it.

[wschmidt22]

come on let's go! why launch this without having the toggle? you knew it would **bleep** a ton of people off at least let us disable it.

[Atroxity]

Yes we need this "feature" to be highly optional, or even completely removed. There's been SO many times I've played one of my playlists and some shitty tune comes on and I'm like "wth is this? I gotta remove it from the playlist instantly" and I keep scrolling but don't find it listed anywhere, thinking there must have been a bug and it doesn't show up in green letters... And now suddenly I understand what's happening here.

Let "random" be just that!

[zpoigjdaf]

Smart shuffle is the worst feature I have ever encountered in any software I've ever used. It sucks so bad and it slays me that is has been around for so long. Please give me the option to disable this awful feature. Please God

[startouched]

This feature is such an annoyance to me. It's automatically on when I set something to shuffle, and then it keeps going back to smart shuffle. If I wanted related/similar music I would just listen to the daylist. It's so much better to hit shuffle and know you'll get Just the songs on the playlist. I'm not here for a radio, I'm here for specific songs. 

[Enigma]

It's interesting that I can bypass the smart shuffle function entirely by simply using Ctrl. + S in the desktop version. Would be wonderful if they simply allowed us to disable the function altogether in the settings.

[seawards_]

Yes, add a way to disable this in the settings, it's just an irritant and I cannot see why a simple menu toggle to disable the feature couldn't be added. It could even be off by default - what does Spotify Corp stand to gain by denying this extra settings toggle?

[Cloudrifter]

It grosses me out every time I have to click through "smart" shuffle knowing that some weird algorithm is putting their creepy paws all over my lovingly curated playlists. It's like when Apple put U2 on everyone's phones. Have some decency. Stop being weird. And if you insist on being weird, at least give me the option to enjoy my music unmolested.

[nolaurious]

It’s been over a year, any progress? Smart Shuffle is annoying and not user-friendly. It creates friction for no reason

[acrookedsmile]

It literally took screenshots of the Shuffle / Smart Shufle icons on the Desktop app and then doubling them in size to discover that they were in fact not identical. The Smart Shuffle icon has a diamond in the upper left corner insteead of a line. On a smartphone screen, the icons are tiny and look identical.

Also make the Smart Shuffle icon blue, this interface is simply misleads the user into thinking ordinary Shuffle is active, when it isn't.

[MrsMcGibblets]

How is this at almost 7,000 votes and not under consideration?!