[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.

[sbfeinstein]

Hello, I'd like to ask not that spotify implement an actual shuffle feature but instead please just answer a question:  why won't you implement a random shuffle?  If it is for business / financial reasons, could you please state that plainly so the community can help with a solution?  What are the economics of making it work (i.e. if I pay an extra $1 / month would that offset whatever this means financially to Spotify?)

[dank13]

you guys want to know the funniest thing? This arvo I took on the challenge to develop my own shuffle player app for iPhone, and after 2hrs I have a working prototype, in no way it's any close to being ready for production, but I can connect to my spotify account, display all my playlists, go into a playlist, shuffle and play every song on it, I can even control how the shuffle works in settings creating custom shuffle modes.

And that only in 2hrs. So YES it is possible to do a true shuffle of songs, Spotify is just absolute dks that don't care about their users period.

[stevemcgowan1954]

Sounds good.

[marcdeye]

launch it!

[iluvyoukami]

Dawg fr, explain to me why I get the same songs played every day in a playlist with almost 10k songs. That shouldn’t even be possible. It’s so annoying having to rely on 3rd party websites to make a whole new playlist in random order every time i want to shuffle my songs. 

[Mason500]

Have they ever addressed this issue? I feel like it’s been going on for so long,  and I haven’t seen a single response from Spotify.. I’m really considering going to Apple Music or Tidal.. 

[Anatosuchus]

It's absurd that "shuffle" doesn't mean "shuffle". And this from at least four years ago!

[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.

[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.