[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.

[raidu1]

i'm also interested of another app where they don't use this idiotic algorithm shuffle...

[bacom15]

Literally either fix this or give us an update soon or I'm walking and taking all of my close friends and family with me. This is ridiculous that after a year such a simple, well supported, and risk free feature is still not implemented. I want to give credit that it's not as easy as I may think it is, but without any communication or updates I default to being left to rot in a corner and I don't like that. I'm already looking into better performing alternatives, get it together and give the community what they want!

[Dunkinidaho]

As I’ve stated in the past no one monitors this user forum. You leave out
of frustration, a hundred new people join. Why would Spotify change?

[RMDaye17]

Même problème depuis ce matin 01/07/2022

Galaxy S21 android 12

[OscarDC]

Hey @RMDaye17,

Thank you for reaching out to the Community and welcome. Keep in mind that the official language used in the Community is English; the replies will be posted in this language. We appreciate your understanding.

We appreciate your feedback with the shuffle function. However, this is an idea that wal already suggested previously and is currently set as "Live Idea". We'd recommend adding your +Vote and subscribe here to be aware of any updates about it.

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[Paquitito]

Yeah. I can pretty guess the first 10 songs of a playlist of over a thousand 

[seekingstars]

Would love for this to happen! I have background in data science, please have a look at my substantial intern experience. I'd love to get involved in this as much as possible. 

[defr]

Hi @Seekingstars,

Although your CV is impressive and could be useful to Spotify, we all have to accept that their fake shuffle is not due to a lack of expertise and it is totally done on purpose. The question is why... I've seen various hypothesis on this forum but I'm not sure exactly which is one the right one...

[BluntBetsy]

I always thought the lousy shuffle was intentional to boost sales for artists. Every time a song is played that’s another cent in the labels pocket. I wouldn’t be surprised if artists or labels have some sort of deal behind the scenes. Same goes for Instagram, they really didn’t care to make the feed chronological because they want you to experience the posts that are most looked at instead which makes their platform more intriguing. I hate that companies don’t give us the steering wheel on most things.

[sammond7]

Very happy to participate in this testing. This limitation is causing some dramas for us and we have some excellent playlists on which to test improvements