[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.

[desiree_gm]

Wow, rozeboosje. I DID notice the thread was four years old....I ALSO NOTICED that it was updated in May of this year. I was simply trying to bring more attention to the issue. Which is why everybody else commented, correct? So, what exactly did I do wrong here to warrant such a snide remark? You're right, I am a newbie to Spotify Community. However, I've been using the app for seven years. If you've moved on from Spotify, why continue to troll the comments on this post? Imagine not having anything better to do in life than argue with strangers on the internet over something you supposedly don't care about anymore. 

[rozeboosje]

Oh I DO care. I want Spotify to crash and burn. My comment wasn't directed at you, per se.

[rozeboosje]

Perhaps people might think it's "histrionic" to express the wish for Spotify to "die" as a business but it makes perfect sense.

Spotify was the first legal streaming service on the market and they still dominate it. But as is often the case, the original innovator becomes the later obstacle in the way of progress for end users. Imagine if IBM were still the only choice for personal computers. It doesn't bear thinking about.

I'm not entirely sure what larger problem this ridiculous failure to address such a trivial technological problem is indicative of, but I can only assume that Spotify somehow managed to contractually or legally paint itself into a corner, and I don't think Spotify can fix this.

So Spotify needs to die, so that other providers who aren't encumbered by such contractual or legal handcuffs can take over and give listeners the experience they deserve.

As long as Spotify keeps hanging on to its enormous and undeserved market share it disincentivises other providers to invest into real technological improvements.

Yes, the sooner Spotify goes bankrupt, the better.

[rednblu]

Not quite

[rednblu]

Maybe.

Do you like music?

[shotdeadfred]

I'm REALLY sick of hearing the same songs over and over in shuffle mode. Please fix it so it plays EVERY song in the playlist before replaying. No algorithm, please.

I don't care much for what happens to smart shuffle just fix the normal shuffle, I'm heavily considering switching streaming services over this and I'm sure many others are.

Please hurry we are suffering

[Bryan193]

I never get songs from the beginning of my playlist when I shuffle it. It only gives me songs from the last few thousand. It’d be cool if in the little menu where the organize by album and by duration there was another one that would shuffle the songs completely randomly. Then when you don’t want then shuffled anymore you just turn the option off.

[rozeboosje]

What do you think is going to happen to a request to "please hurry" in a four year old thread with 154 pages of complaints?

[lordhaakon]

Me reading increasingly angry and frustrated comments from people who expect functionality children can write to be included in the primary product of a $60bln company:

[zx6dude]

As it has been said many times before on this thread: If Spotify hasn't fixed it in over 4 years, they won't fix it no matter how many people beg them to do it. What they call shuffle must be heavily rigged to get them as much money as possible, otherwise they would have fixed it by now. It is not a difficult thing to grab a list of music and mix it up.

If shuffle is important to you, there are other providers that do it properly.

The only way for Spotify to fix this, is if they start losing money instead of making it, and that will never happen because people are loyal to a company that doesn't care about its customers. All Spotify care about is making money.

Greedify as someone called them.

I didn't think about leaving. I left. Happily hearing long playlists on shuffle and without repeats.