[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.

[zx6dude]

@suumpmolk that's why I'm not with Spotify anymore 🤷‍

[BeechCedar727]

Update - I'm pretty close to completing the switch from Spotify to A.M. I have even convinced the family to try out AM and I am serving as the Playlisty playlist conversion guy. Odds are that in a few weeks we all jettison Spotify. The only downside my daughter identified so far is that AM apparently won't create a playlist for you the way Spotify does, but I'm thinking we just don't yet know all of the things that AM provides.

[StokedNomad]

So, like many others, I've been following this thread for several years. I finally installed Amazon Music and have been using it for a couple of weeks. I'm converted. Spotify for whatever financial, apathetic or other self interest reason is never going to fix this issue. It obviously works exactly how they want it to. There is apparently no app that does what I want it to do and that is add a bunch of artists to a playlist and then play me random songs from their whole catalogue. A bit like putting 10 cds in your stacker and hitting random. However, with AM, I liked a heap of artists and then hit "My Soundtrack". So far, just great music from the Artists I like and no repeats. And nothing like "Hey, you liked this female rock artist and your daughter once put on Taylor Swift in the car using your Spotify account, so here is every Taylor Swift song ever made and several other random female pop artists".  So, I can now stop following this thread and get on with enjoying a better streaming service from Amazon Music. Thanks for the memories (and frustration) Spotify!

[JamesDoesGaming902]

This is still a very annoying issue to this day. I am very much considering looking at alternatives to spotify

[rozeboosje]

"I am very much considering looking at alternatives to spotify"

Why wait? What are you waiting for?

[BeechCedar727]

Yes - why wait? I was hesitant, but decided doing a free trial on another service was no-risk, just some time spent. So far I'm pretty sure I've made the right decision, and 3 family members are about at the same conclusion. Then buh bye Spotify.

[m2nis]

Even an 84-year-old remarked to me on a journey of less than an hour that there was a repetition problem. On a playlist of almost 500 tracks. This shuffle mode is a nightmare. 😠

[rozeboosje]

Just goes to prove that you can take a horse to Spotify but you can't make it shuffle

[phantomile]

how is it 2024 and this still hasnt been done yet ITS SO SIMPLE BRO YOU HAVE TO ACTIVELY MAKE IT AN ALGOTRHTYM TO ANNOY PEOPLE

[Tiredofshufflenowork]

Please make an option of shuffle that is completely randomized like shuffle in the old iPod days. I am sick and tired of hearing the same songs over and over again despite having shuffle turned on because your algorithm knows what songs/artists i listen to the most and then play those more frequently when shuffle is turned on.