[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.

[oddindeed]

WELCOME ROBERTKAY! here you will be completely ignored by Spotify, but not by us! the dreamers, indeed

[Undeterred]

Hey, Robertkay. Welcome! And congratulations for your very sensible idea!
Now please take a seat, grab the popcorn, and enjoy life as an eternally damned spotify consumer.
Or, you can read through the thousands of comments here and find many options to explore other music streaming services... brought to you by companies who actually give a shïït about their customers.

[Dmitrу]

Let's all move to a competitor. We have to make them fix this stupid issue. Otherwise, there is no value in this shitty service.

[rozeboosje]

"move to a competitor"

Did that years ago. For some funny reason, morbid curiosity perhaps, I decided to stay subscribed to this issue. At first perhaps in the hope that Spotify might fix the issue and I could return to them. Now, I'm merely a bystander who can't stop himself walking past a train wreck to gawp at the body parts to see if any of them are still twitching

[zx6dude]

As it is plainly demonstrated by 164 pages of comments on this topic, the number of votes and the amount of time no amount of begging, threatening or even doing is going to change Spotify.

For unknown reasons they will not fix this. Personally, I believe this makes them money, so they don't see it as something to be fixed. 

If you care about shuffle and customer service, you need to go elsewhere to get it. 

Like others, I've moved to another provider, I don't regret moving, and I'm just here out of curiosity. 

[colinfurlong]

Hey, here to scream into the void with you all. I hope our pleading and collective agony will produce a harmony so beautiful, a perfect vibration, a tone in line with some higher truth so that we may compel the talking heads at Spotify to make a simple change. Amen.

[colinfurlong]

P.S. - may the Spotify algorithm aggregate the multiple other threads suggesting the same thing into this major thread, so that this forum's apparent goal of gauging community interest be fulfilled. Amen.

[Darth_GTB]

I would just like to add that my proposal for a change in the algorithm was deleted without a reason. Not even a "get lost" from Spotify's team. That post linked to this one, so I just hope this one isn't taken down too

[rozeboosje]

"hope this one isn't taken down too"

That would truly be the end of an era 🤔 😁

[user-removed]

The problem can be resolved by removing songs from your playlist and adding new ones so that the shuffle function can play different tracks. Alternatively, if you don't want to add new songs or remove existing ones, you can use online tools to reshuffle your playlist, allowing the shuffle function to play different songs.