[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.

[rmccurley]

Add me to the list of users who'd like the "shuffle" feature to actually, you know, shuffle! Like some of the others, I have a long 1000+ song playlist that I like to listen to like a 70's style college FM radio station. I don't want to hear the same 50 songs over and over again that Spotify thinks are my favorite. And I suspect by listening to them, they become more "favorite" to Spotify's algorithm! Please fix this!!!

[zx6dude]

As much as I would like Spotify to fix this, I don't believe they will - they've had years to do it, and haven't.

Spotify are arrogant enough to ignore their customers and do whatever they want instead of what their customers want.

Coming to this forum to request this change seems completely pointless - I think this forum serves to bury this idea whilst  Spotify pretends it cares.

As someone was saying, this isn't a feature that is needed. It is a bug that needs to fixed.

Spotify can't or won't fix it. They aren't even courteous enough to come clean and say why it works the way it does, and why they won't fix it.

Using another provider, so far I've heard more than 6 hours of music of my playlist in shuffle mode without a single repeat - it makes me happy that I achieved what I wanted, and I'm not paying Spotify anymore.

I'm only on this forum out of curiosity to see how this develops, its like watching a crash in slow motion.

[oddindeed]

they will most definitely not fix this, simply because they don't care about the user only about the money. plus, the decisions are made mostly by they algorithm, by learning the song you play / listen to. and it does not learn form the songs you don't listen to / skip. i think this is so dumb because why would you teach your algorithm with only half the information from a user. anyways, here's the same song you just listen to in the last hour, CAUSE YOU LOVE IT SO MUCH RIGHT?!???

[whencehecame]

This needs to be fixed.  What's the point of shuffling if it doesn't truly shuffle?  I am tired of the same songs over and over and in reality, playing a list of a user's most popular songs makes it even more listened to and thus played more!  This is a HUGE flaw.  

[MLxyz]

Shuffle plays some songs twice before having played the entire playlist. Shuffle should play all songs once in a random order, not any random song.

[Surfer8349]

What a piece of junk this platform is. Been paying premium for a decade to listen to the same 50 songs over and over again 

[toyvvti]

Shuffle needs to be fixed. Keeps playing all the same songs over and over again. Ever worse it doubles up on different devices. So listen to 3 songs at work get in car and it plays the same three songs again in same order. Really bad shuffle.

[INeedRandomShuffle]

Please.....It's been so long. PLEASE. This feature makes me not want to use spotify any more. I can't handle hearing the same songs OVER and OVER and OVER on my playlist of 6000+ songs. I am in statistically impossible **bleep**.

[pdinasaurus]

Will finally be moving to a different option for my music. The repetition in random mode from each playlist has gotten unbrearable. I can't belive the greed and condescension. Just let me shuffle my songs on random. 

[zx6dude]

Spotify hasn't fixed this in many years.

Spotify arrogantly doesn't engage with its customers.

Spotify will likely never fix this, no matter how much customers ask for it.

Spotify is no longer the only provider with extensive music catalogues.

Spotify doesn't deserve misplaced loyalty.

If shuffle is important to your listening experience, maybe its time to move on.

Shuffle was important to me, so I moved on to another provider. I miss some Spotify features, but I can play a playlist on shuffle for hours and hours without repeats.