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Shuffle should not repeat a song until X% of the the rest of the playlist has been played

Submitted by on ‎2014-12-23 04:16 PM
Status: implemented

My starred playlist is 250+ tracks, yet when I shuffle play I hear some song all of the time and others never. Spotify should keep track of the play history across sessions. Once a song has been played, it won'tbe put back into the sample pool until half (or some other percentage) of the other songs are played.

 

Example: Playlist X has 100 songs. When on shuffle, as soon as song Y is played it is put "on hold" and won't be considered for play until at least 50 other songs have been played.

 

I get sick of hearing the same songs over and over and this is easily a fixable problem. I would also hope that this is a duplicate suggestion, but I didn't see anything.

 

Bart

Updated: 2016-03-29

Hey everyone! Recently we updated this idea: "Implement an actual shuffle function". 

 

With this new algorithm you should see songs played in shuffle move to the bottom of the play queue between sessions. We'd like to collect feedback on this algorithm so if you have any comments please post them here. Thanks for your feedback everyone!



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Kevincraigmagic
Casual Listener
2025-10-02 10:50 AM

Shuffle still playing the same 20 tracks. 

tried the “new” mix function with absolutely no different. 

I try sorting the order from artist to title and it works for about two tracks. I’m so fed up with this. 

why even have the function of it’s not functioning 🤬

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