[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]

"the shuffle is a great feature" 😂😂😂

It should be, but it really isn't and will never be, it would cost a greedy company like Spotify too much money. Profits over customer service. Disgusting. 

[Justookurloot]

I will start a playlist and then search a new song. Then have to start playlist over and it seams to play the same songs over again. With over 10,000 songs would think shuffle would move around enough. But a continue playlist feature would be awesome

[oddindeed]

hey spotify, why are you trying to play the same song i just listed to? are you stupid? ffs

[rozeboosje]

"are you stupid?"

Now that's a good question. One I'd like to ask those of you who are still parting with your hard earned cash for this pathetic excuse for a "service".

[Rhakete]

Oi, Spotify-idiots! Why do you show other meaningless ideas with a mere 70 votes as "trending ideas"? This idea right here of implementing a true shuffle feature, that's what's trending you **bleep**! No update from you since May last year, are you actually for real? If your engineers are too bad at their jobs to code this, just say so (we already know you won**bleep**).

Just pure **bleep**in silence on this issue from this shitty company. Spotify employees don't give a flying **bleep** about either music OR their paying customers. Must feel like ass working for this incapable pile of manure. 

[brentb9193]

Finally became fed up enough to come here to complain and, surprise, Spotify clearly does not care about this topic.

Your "shuffle" does not work.  You already have a "smart shuffle."  Why would your regular shuffle do kind of the same thing?

If I turn on shuffle I expect to hear my songs play in a completely random order.  This is very easy to do from a programming standpoint - no algorithm is even needed. 

Shuffle = random

[Mookpsu]

brentb9193 back in the mid 90's my 5 disc CD player was able to play every
song in random order with no repeats. This is clearly a calculated business
decision on their part, not a technology issue. As I type this I'm
listening to one of my custom playlists in shuffle mode on Amazon Music and
guess what. It will play every song in a random order with no repeats. You
will own a house on Pluto before Spotify corrects this glaring problem

[djaxx22]

I thought I was going crazy. Same 10 songs over and over on a 100 song playlist. I love Spotify, but this has been really irritating. 

[imy0br0]

can you add an feature to the playlist settings to completely shuffle every song in the playlist 

[zx6dude]

imy0br0, welcome to where all Spotify shuffle ideas come to die.

This "live" idea is live just in name.