[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.

[kevinswoon]

More than 10 years of making money and they can't
 generate a decent random selection.

[Fams]

When I play from my liked songs, when I click a new song I was expecting a randomized song list for all songs after that in the queue. Every time I play a new song I end up with a very similar queue as before, so I cannot truly randomize my playback of songs. This used to happen this way, but something changed and it now sucks.

[dank13]

I've been a subscriber of Spotify since they launch in May 2012, and last week I cancelled my family subscription and moved to Apple Music. When they asked why am I cancelling my subscription:
- Lack for true shuffle
- Lack of HomePod support
- Never listen to their users
- Constant price increases 
And a few other reasons.
But i'm glad I did it, I guess its the best way to tell them something, is by giving your money to someone else. Since I've added HomePods around my house, i've been paying for Spotify and Apple Music, and ended up getting better service from Apple Music than Spotify.
- Better shuffle (doesn't repeat songs on big playlists)
- HomePod support
- Lossless Dolby Atmos music
- Pays artists more per stream
So, long story short i'm glad i'm not paying AU$28/mo to a company that is greedy and doesn't listen to their customers.