[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.

[Trevlinge]

I agree the Spotify shuffle feature is still not working at all. Same old songs all the time in the shuffle mode. Probably no fix of this issue from the Spotify team in near future, no?

[novadopa1979]

Spotify's shuffle option is very repetitive, even playing certain songs in the same order every day. I've been a premium user since the beginning and have playlists with over 7,000 songs. The annoying thing is that, to improve randomness, I have to use the app on three different devices (two phones and one PC) and also have to clear the cache and reinstall the app almost daily. Isn't it possible to create a truly random shuffle option?

[Octocult]

Just adding on to the pile. I have over 3,600 songs in my playlist and shuffle keeps looping the same ~30 eventually. I follow online suggestions to turn off automix and clear my cache once in a while, but it very quickly goes back to doing the same thing and it's becoming infuriating.

[thesugarclouds]

There are services like soundiiz which I’ve used to transfer playlists successfully.

[GrumpyListener]

This is ridiculous.  It's very simple to create a shuffle button that...you know...actually shuffles the music instead of repeatedly playing the same handful of songs over and over.  It's actually making me consider cancelling my service because this is just shameful.