[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.

[t3chfre4k]

This is a game changer, I'm lucky I'm an android user. Freedom to the people! Less profit to spotify!

[DrmWEaver]

This feels like a scam.  100 or so downloads and website doesn't even show this product. 

[rozeboosje]

It will be a very cold day in the Dominion of Lucifer Morningstar before I will entrust any of my credentials to a 3rd party developer, no matter how trustworthy they seem. Besides, it's utter madness that one would have to rely on the charity of a hobbyist to achieve something that a provider like Spotify itself refuses to implement.

[t3chfre4k]

• @rozeboosje

Here's how the authorisation process works.

https://developer.spotify.com/documentation/general/guides/authorization/

[bogatkev]

It's been almost 3 years.

There's no way this feature should take more than a couple of hours to code and go through a review process.

[teollo]

do you think it is dangerous for our data-payment etc?

[t3chfre4k]

@teollo

Me personally have been using multiple API-based services with token verification. I have never had a problem once, even if someone would try to steal your credentials they would need your phone number or such to confirm login from another unit, I'm using the highest security alternatives. For the ones worrying their content could be altered and deleted by someone with bad intentions, fear not, you can always log in to your pages on the website and restore deleted playlist way way back.

Hope this was the answer you were looking for.

[Reecekip]

Just coming back to comment on this one again.

Waiting for the day that spotify will let me shuffle all of my liked songs without using a weighted algorithm that favors songs that I've listened to recently. Would love to shuffle my 4.5k songs and listen in a truly random order instead of hearing the majority of my On Repeat and Repeat Rewind tracks within the first 30 songs.

[jdg072]

Quote from Qobuz:

"Apologies for the late reply.

There are no algorithms that choose the songs that are most liked or played, but all the songs should play at least once, before a song can be played another time.

We remain at your disposal for any further assistance.

Best regards,"

[Seffial]

I'm over Spotify tbh, you cant give us a feature that has existed for over 20 years, pathetic. MuseIQ is a new platform about to launch in the first quarter of 2023, they are gonna change the game for artist pay and Spotify will be a fart in the wind in 10 years.