[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.

[user-removed]

I am done with this childish behavior. I will leave this forum because I don't want to deal with people insulting me or making accusations that don't reflect reality. It's truly childish! Just because you have a different opinion doesn't mean you should write insulting comments towards me!

[dank13]

@lukasangelo91 Bye!

I don't want to have to keep changing my playlists to have random music played when i shuffle. I have a playlist that i like with 600 of my favorite songs on it, I want Spotify to shuffle those 600 songs like a shuffle deck of cards and play the songs on the new order without repeating a song until all 600 songs have been played, simple as that.

That's how a true shuffle should work PERIOD!

Your method works for you because you only have 50 songs on your list, because the way it works currently is, when you hit shuffle, on a list that is bigger than 50, for example my list of 600 songs:

When you hit Shuffle it will create a mini playlist of 75 songs ramomnly selected from your 600 songs, and as they play, a new song is added to this playlist randomly from your 600 songs which may or may not be one of the songs tha just played, and most likely it will be as it will give preference for certain record lables.

So, yeah, shuffle is broken and it can be easily fixed by shuffling your entire list in a brand new order and playing that new order from top to bottom, instead of doing this stupid shuffle is currently doing... I'm glad it works for you, but for most of us that have more than 75 songs on their playlist it doesn't.

[user-removed]

@dank13 

1: We are here on a forum where solutions can be proposed. If you have an issue with that, then you don't understand the concept of a forum.
2: I didn't say that I have a playlist with 50 songs. Anyone who can read and use their brain will realize that this was just an example, as I don't know what playlist you have or how many songs are in yours.
3: I have a playlist with over 4300 songs.

I realize myself that it's pointless to make suggestions here because apparently there are people like you who make sure this doesn't happen.

[dank13]

@lukasangelo91 I thought you said you were going to leave this forum???

[user-removed]

@dank13 Just shut your mouth, you're so pathetic. No wonder there's hate in this world.

[Darth_GTB]

I love how Spotify is so terrible at this that they are even able to turn the customers against themselves on stuff both agree with **bleep**

[Darth_GTB]

I can't believe, they bleeped "L M A O" LOL

[rozeboosje]

R O T F L M A O P M P C F O O M P

[suumpmolk]

Got really excited when I found a 40h+ playlist, but when I listen for a couple of hours I keep hearing the same songs... How can 40h become 1-2h of songs based on the algorithm? This was very disappointing.

[Keenonatemyhaus]

>The problem can be resolved by removing songs from your playlist and adding new ones so that the shuffle function can play different tracks.<

The lie detector determined this statement was false. It doesn't resolve the problem, only removes frequently repeated songs.