[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.

[AntZudan]

Please either remove the feature altogether or give us the option to permanently disable it. It is unwanted and breaks regularly. It also recently seems to have started turning itself on.

[JohnBarlow]

Smart shuffle is the worst. LET US PERMANENTLY DISABLE IT.

[goopie]

i 100% agree. i was happy when the feature was removed but now that it’s back in action i desperately want a toggle button. 

please spotify !! 

[goopie]

please spotify take a look at how many individual posts about this same feature have been made. the 50 likes within 3 months requirement has been met across all the topics. let us toggle it!!

[crnblover]

Please remove the smart shuffle option from the random/normal button, and change it back to like it used to be!

Before it was a separate Enhance button for inserting recommended songs, and it would not affect me switching between random and normal play sequence. But now, I always have to press one more time or even a few times more, as it doesn't respond instantly for long and download enabled playlists. It's like when I click on the shuffle button, it immediately downloads the additional unwanted recommended songs, which takes more than 5 seconds, I must be very patient to wait until it completes to turn it back off. This is extremely ANNOYING, I use this shuffle feature to my playlists everyday and many times a day!

Also, it doesn't work every time, when it shows smart shuffle recommended songs removed, it may not be the case. I find out when it plays a song that is not on my playlist, or when it is not playing songs in the right sequence, then I have to redo the shuffle thing all over again.

It's not that I didn't like this insert recommended songs feature, but honestly, I hate this feature now. As it is affecting me listening to my playlists everyday, and I don't know how much longer I need to suffer this ad I don't seem to see any follow up on this "Good Suggestion"!

Hi Spotify team, the Spotify app is a great app on Android and Mac desktop, I really appreciate the efforts put in building this useful and enjoyable app that I use more than any apps on my phone. And I always use the recommended playlist at the end of my playlists to find good songs. I just do not like that it is mandatory to have this smart shuffle mode between the random and normal play modes.

Thank you.

[user-removed]

Who's ready for the one year anniversary for Spotify ignoring this thread to remove their stupid idea? 🎉

[Progchamp]

I wish it was an account wide setting, so it would be disabled across devices.

A ton of my friends hate smart shuffle too, a major complaint being they've worked hard to create the playlists with carefully curated music that they want to listen to, and here comes smart shuffle to add music to the queue that just completely ruins the vibe. Especially awful if you're driving, or trying to calm yourself down before some big event. As a mate of mine has put it, it just "tilts your 'tism".

I feel like smart shuffle is just a symptom of the problem where companies are pressured into adding new (unnecessary) features even when it ends up taking away from the user experience. It wouldn't be much of a problem if users could elect to opt-out of certain features in the account settings in the first place. Maybe resources could better be spent installing infrastructure to aid in account preference customization, but that's just me.

[antho13]

I never use smart shuffle, and toggling between regular shuffle and non-shuffle is pain because of smart shuffle. Please give us an option to disable it.

[antho13]

I've never used smart shuffle, and it's a pain to switch between shuffle modes because of smart shuffle. It ruins the queue, takes forever, and sometimes glitches out all because of smart shuffle. Please let us disable it!

[jaco948599]

Yep. I don't like how it works so for me a disable feature button is needed.