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

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.

Updated on 2025-04-29

Hey folks,

 

We're excited to announce that you can now toggle whether Smart Shuffle is available on your mobile apps!

  1. Tap your profile picture at the top.
  2. Tap Settings and privacy.
  3. Select Playback.
  4. Switch Enable all play modes off and you're good to go!

Cheers & many thanks for your input 🙂 Stay tuned for new updates 🙌🏼

Comments
s6dekwj38xerx1nga07y

So annoying! I am enjoying my playlist Spotify plays a song I don't know and I didn't added U_U
after 2 years with SPOTIFY yesterday started happening

TorvaFirmus

Is smart shuffle used to generate ad revenue? Or do you just go out of your way to put songs on that I don't want to listen to? I really just want to just listen to the music that I have chosen.

 

Please, please, please let me disable it permanently on my account. 

SpookyGoof

And while we're at it stop turning these rejected features back on when you update. 

djh1995

This isn't a new idea, people have been asking and you have been ignoring them for years. I want to listen to what I want to listen, not what your dickhead algorithm has in store for me.

 

You know what was helpful? The ability to quickly reshuffle your playlists, which you can't do anymore, why? Because it five seconds for smart shuffle to infect my playlist**bleep** I won't be listening to and then another five seconds to remove them. You killed a good function to push your algorithm**bleep** onto people that don't want it.

 

Sksss
**bleep** spotify
UsedAtomicBomb

Please God add this already. It's been long enough

ewqua1

Hello there, 

Another user annoyed by the smart shuffle feature here! 

Even when it is disabled, it still adds smart shuffle song to my playlists 😞 This is evil. For public playlists created by Spotify, that's okay. On the other hand, there is a private playlist, created by me - it still add smart suffle (even when it is off!!! ) 😕

Please, I am not paying for this. 

JahPunK

This sh*t IS so boring! How can anyone admit that they haven't done anything yet? For such simple line code to be implemented? They're hiding something from us

Cedd12

Turn it off, no one wants this feature.

agonih

If I'm paying premium, I will not have your **bleep** shoved down my throat and pay you for it at the same time, I ain't into that.

 

I don't want to go and pirate all the songs and rip them from your app, in order to create my own playlists locally and use another player to actually play the music I CHOSE.

 

I really don't want to do that. But you should be aware that I fully can. And there's plenty of methods to do that, which work damn well, mind you. By adding **bleep** like this and let's be frank, FORCING YOUR PAYING USER TO**bleep** THEY DON'T WANT, you will damage your income early or late.

 

You could do the |=uck1ing right thing and actually listen to user input - thousands here, thousands in your app reviews, thousands in other forums, and add the option, something which even a junior engineer would need less than half an hour to add, but yet you CHOOSE not to.

 

Using those scripts to rip your playlists and download them as m4a/mp3, is getting more appealing by the second, and I'm sure I'm not the only one who feels that way.