[All Platforms] Option to have a true shuffle

[jonathanleyerle]

So I’ve been noticing more and more recently that Spotify’s default shuffle feature doesn’t fully shuffle your songs. It does some sort of grouping to try to get similar songs together based off of what I’m sure is dozens of factors. Every time I shuffle a playlist (the one I noticed this with the most is ~100 songs and 6 hours of mostly full albums) it will group the songs mostly or completely together by album/artist, and given the number of times I’ve re-shuffled and checked the order there’s no way it’s just a coincidence. They also generally seem to be in the same order as well. If I hit shuffle play on a playlist it’ll generally put the same artists at the beginning every time.

With larger playlists of albums I am really not a fan of this shuffling method. If I have 6 hours of music on a playlist I will hardly ever have 6 hours to actually listen through the whole thing, but when I do listen to it I would like to hear all of the music on it equally, and not just the artist or two your algorithm likes to shuffle to first.

Anyways, I’m a reasonable man, all I’m asking for is an option to have a true shuffle (take all songs in the list, put them in a random order, and once they’re all played reshuffle them and play them again). Make it premium only if you want. I don’t think you should scrap the current shuffle algorithm because it sucks. Looking at some of the suggestions on here it seems like some people lobbied hard to have it that way. Just add an option for a true shuffle for those of us that don’t care about potentially getting the same song twice in a row.

[APM00]

Moi aussi j'ai ce problème et c'est pénible

[AndresM]

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[duel007]

This isn't what we want! Give us a REAL shuffle!

[BluntBetsy]

Define ‘real shuffle’ so you can help Spotify.

[rozeboosje]

Define 'real shuffle'?

That's hardly a head scratcher now, is it? It would basically be what Amazon Music calls "randomize playlist". It randomizes he order of an entire playlist, so that you can then proceed to listen to the entire playlist and hear all the songs in it exactly once but in a fresh, new, order.

This isn't difficult. Except, apparently, for Spotify's "top developers".

[ThatMouse]

Bonus if it remembers where you left off. So it should not randomize again,
or start over, if you switch to a different playlist.

[kcb1717]

Please do this. I love making huge playlists for parties or long drives or work days, but I'm tired of hearing the same songs. 

[htdeen]

I have a slightly different experience. Up until a few months ago I thought the shuffle feature worked fine for the most part. But recently if I listen to a song by an artist all the way through I’ll get several more songs in my 1200 song shuffled playlist by that same artist immediately following the one I listened to all the way through. It’s like they pick up on the fact that you listened to a song by an artist all the way through and so they think you want to hear a bunch more songs by that artist instead of hearing the rest of your playlist. If I want to listen to a bunch of songs by that one artist, I will go listen to one of their albums. I would love a true shuffle feature for my playlists.

[teollo]

dream on dreamer!!!

[Dunkinidaho]

Recently someone posted that “true shuffle” had been implemented. What happened to that thread? Let me guess, false alarm lol.