[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.

[Ryd]

Cannot believe it’s almost 2024 and they still haven’t implemented this… It’s called shuffle for a reason, I don’t wanna listen to the same 15 songs on repeat 😭

[Kung777]

Chiming in to say I also wish the "shuffle" didn't play the same songs over and over...

[Shiv71]

I just logged on to say the exact same thing and I see I'm not alone! Shuffle doesn't shuffle, it plays the exact same songs on repeat and I have 100's of different tracks. No wonder my 2023 Review was the same as last year....Since this is a paid subscription, surely there is someone who can make shuffle actually mean, shuffle. When I'm in the car it's extremely annoying - and dangerous - to have to skip virtually every song on shuffle as I only heard it yesterday. I now find myself being bored with those songs. Please keep us update with any progress. Thank you!

[armedzerox]

Welcome to the disappointed family. This problem has first stated on 2020 and it seemed to be ignored. Spotify wants to appeal to their real customers which is the artists. We are now discussing to leave Spotify and trying to find other alternatives here. I didn't find a good one yet tho, so will be sticking for a while.

[mullboy25]

Want to bump this thread. Particularly annoyed with how the lack of a true shuffle impacts large playlists. Hope that it doesn't take another three years for this solution to be implemented... especially since now there's already a new shuffle type with recommended songs.

[Mookpsu]

The odds are higher that you will hit the Powerball while living in your
house on Mars than Spotify implementing a true random shuffle

[irony58]

"Bump this thread"??? With 109 pages and a couple messages per day, this
thread has more bumps than an acre of jackfruit.

[rozeboosje]

"Hope that it doesn't take another three years"

If you're seriously considering throwing good money after bad on Spotify Premium for another 3 years while hoping for them to finally get the finger out you're nuttier than that brown place inside a squirrel where the Sun never shines.

[Levzowk]

I am very interested in this! Sick of having the same shuffle songs play over and over.

[barra240t]

I've been using the Spotify DJ since yesterday and its been really good, shuffles fav songs, deep cuts, suggests unknowns, I know its not what they thread is about but it seems to do what I want shuffle to do. Also, I'm finding my daily mixes are shuffling a lot better as well, has something changed perhaps? I haven't tried shuffling my liked songs yet but will give it a go to see if its improved.