[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.

[Sksss]

Approaching a year guys gals. If we dont get it by april... well actually just let get it by april. Keep posting here

[galvinsc]

We REALLY need the ability to disable the smart shuffle in settings. WE DO NOT WANT IT.

[RD1010]

COME ON SPOTIFY..... FUC*ING  DO YOUR JOBS AND FIX THIS ASS FEATURE ALREADY. It crashes my app every goddam time i try to turn it off. 

[strerd]

I'm fed up. I've set my playlist up how I like it. Your 'smart shuffle' songs that I did not ask for are popping up in my list when I've blocked them from playing. Further, your Spotify app plays the same 6 or 9 songs & then resets to another song ('Vampire' or 'Murder on the Dancefloor'). I have 5.000 plus songs in my list. You can't figure way to NOT play an artist once in 9 songs.

[hot_n_ready]

It is wild how many times over the last year of having this feature I've come to this board to see if disabling it has finally been added. I can guarantee this feature is still HOTLY in demand.

I am a developer myself and I just know how easy a toggle is to add. It's ridiculous. One little toggled boolean in the settings that lets you skip over the option in the shuffle rotation.

On top of it being intrusive, this feature lags the app making it even more intrusive! Sometimes when clicking through, there is a huge lag, honestly up to 5 seconds where the shuffle status is completely unknown and bouncing back to previous states.

There are better ways to implement this feature! 

Why is it loading songs for the entire playlist when it's turned on? It should only be loading in recommended songs when it's choosing to go to a recommended song. I have gigantic playlists and the upfront cost of adding in recommended songs to a 2,471 song playlist is not cheap.

Not only does this feature annoy me as someone who casually uses this app but it infuriates me as a developer.

I hate it.

[foolio1]

ok... I was on Premium for a long while, but had to go free for a bit due to a bunch of bills.  What is this Smart Shuffle "feature"? It's more irritating than your irritating ads have ever been.  "...mixing in songs" - BS!  It plays like 5 songs before going back to the playlist.  Even if it's an autogenerated playlist, why tf would you mix songs in???? Then the algorithm starts spiralling into different genres. Who the **bleep** thought this was a good idea?  Basically you don't get to listen to what you want without subscribing or fiddling with your phone after every song.  So much for a relaxing commute to work.

[hot_n_ready]

I am not kidding.

It has been 30 minutes since I wrote this post.

I have been listening to my playlist. I have turned off the smart shuffle SIX TIMES - I clicked it twice to go back to normal shuffle.

There's something attached to the next button right now that's moving it into smart shuffle:

https://staging.streamable.com/03scdm

If the smart shuffle is enabled at some point during listening too - If I can manage to turn smart shuffle off - the songs that are cached from the smart shuffle are staying in the queue. So even when I am no longer using smart shuffle, I can't get away from this feature:

https://staging.streamable.com/29xnnn

(If these links get taken down before I get a reply, please do not hesitate to reach out and ask for them again. I'm sorry if I seem upset but I'm trying to help everyone who uses your app.)

[Plazmex8]

I'm done with Spotify. The only thing holding me is Spotify Connect. But it's not worth it anymore. I'm gonna check out Apple Music. They have hidef audio quality (which Spotify was promising for at least 5 years now and still isn't here) & music locker to upload my own missing songs. Bye

[Jetz_Kiterr]

This needs to be fixed, especially for Playlists that are set to keep downloaded on the device.

While toggling between shuffle/non-shuffle, Smart Shuffle will add a new mix of songs and IMMEDIATELY START DOWNLOADING THEM! I don't want random songs I haven't specified to be clogging up my storage space and using my data when I didn't tell it to. To make it worse, Smart Shuffle cannot be disabled fast enough to prevent this from starting; it downloading new songs every single time I want to toggle shuffle on/off, making the program and phone lag so much that I have to toggle it off at least twice every time before it goes away. 

It goes like this:

Shuffle is off. Click to turn on Shuffle (so far so good). I want shuffle off. Click and it goes to Smart Shuffle. Click again, and it shows shuffle is off... for a second, then it goes back to saying Smart Shuffle is STILL ON, and there's a "downloading" alert in my phone notifications. Click again to disable, and it will eventually turn shuffle off and cancel the downloads (but sometimes, it needs to be done a third time).

If the program isn't fast enough to keep up with its own functions, there needs to be an option to disable it. I appreciate the feature occasionally, but the vast majority of the time, all its doing is causing annoyance and unnecessary delay of function that makes me long for the simplicity of programs like Winamp.

Stop trying to force-feed new features, PLEASE! Let us choose when we want to use them.

[Mo73]

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