[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.

[Bobbysunshine312]

Not having a reductive random is ridiculous - it just leads to some songs getting buried in my monster playlists and never heard. At least make this an option folks could select similar to smart shuffle a few years ago. If you like it, use it! If not, don’t worry!

[hela6]

Is there any update on this ?

This is a MUST, If I press shuffle, I want it to shuffle the playlist entirely, no favoritism for any popular songs.

[rozeboosje]

"Is there any update on this ?"

Yes there is! I have great news for you. There are other providers, i.e. other music streaming services that give you a shuffle that actually works.

Unbelievable, you may think, but it's true!

[imperialpint]

A brilliant idea! Perhaps we could start a Go Fund Me for an actual programmer to work out an actual random shuffle feature.
I doubt they're smart enough to make a random shuffle algorithm that selects songs based on their profitability.
"Never ascribe to malice that which is adequately explained by incompetence." -Napoleon Bonaparte

[dank13]

@imperialprint I have a working app I'm working on, it's not ready for distribution yet, but when I'm done, I'll upload it to the App Store 👍

[rednblu]

I assure you that you can assemble the incomplete and broken pieces of the 2025 Spotify player to shuffle perfectly-- such as, play for 90 days without even one repeat of the same track-- even with 20 of [9000 track playlists] shuffled under one Spotify folder.

(I can show you the spreadsheet of zero repeats over nearly continuous play for 90 straight days of Spotify play)-- but who cares?

Spotify knows. But Spotify will not connect the pieces for non-expert computer programmers-- Spotify will not give us even a good set of valuable and working manual instructions-- manual instructions that have to be corrected to work around the pitfalls that Spotify has left in every player update since 2022 after Spotify blocked every known Roadie from using the last fully functional Spotify player.

And ...The official Spotify vandals here won't let me tell you more

[rednblu]

Taunting the Spotify vandals to their face-- How dare you cut out the following text!!!!

And no-- There is not even one of Spotify’s competitors that do the shuffle of big 150,000 track playlists better than Spotify--

As of January 29, 2025-- None of Spotify’s competitors are better than what we can do with the broken pieces of player that Spotify has left us.

The expert programmer dad of the Spotify family accounts has to fix whatever the kids cannot-- The perfect shuffle is just that simple.

[Ameliearms]

La lecture aléatoire dans une playlist n'est pas optimale, souvent les mêmes titres reviennent

[TheHersh]

I like my large playlists. I have them large because I want to hear all music in it. I am not sure why this is even a thing. I did discontinue service a few years back with Spotify because I got sick of it. Came back because of the selection and I am close to switching to another service again. A good compromise would be a playlist scrambler. One of my work around is to play songs in alfabetical order so it's at least different artists. This however isn't work for me anymore.

[oddindeed]

hey spotify, can you stop repeating the same songs? kthnxbye