[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.

[Herleif]

Add a switch in settings that switch between normal and true shuffle.  please!

It's 2023 and shuffle still do not play all tracks in a playlist in random order. 

My theory why this is so:
Most of Spotifys millions of users do not play huge playlists, if they happen to put on all the old albums of Madonna they really actually just want a mix of the top tracks which is what the current shuffle seem to give, they never listen long enough to get to the lesser known tracks and they don't care. 

But for the love of god, for all the rest of us who have long lists and want to explore and be surprised by new and older tracks, maybe make a playlist of artists on a label we like and explore it with shuffle , just shuffle all tracks and play, ignore what is most played or when it was added.

[Herleif]

How I test if shuffle works in Spotify webplayer.

open a playlist with 150 songs or more
turn shuffle off
Press play
Enter queue list
it will have queued only about 80 of the tracks 

now press shuffle
Note that it has shuffled in tracks that were not among the 80 you just saw, so it does see the whole list.

Make note of a particular track

play or reload the list and turn shuffle off and on

you will see that from your long list of tracks your noted track will always be "picked" in the 80+ that it lines up.

That's not shuffling, if it was, new tracks from your list would have appeared as you activated shuffle.

[ReAkTrator]

creates a feature that allows you to randomize the order of the songs in a playlist.

[Absurd_Her0]

The fact that applications like https://shuffle.virock.org/how-virtual-shuffle-works exist is evidence that there is a demand for this feature.   I see some of the suggestions with many votes and yet a basic feature like this remains faulty.  Come on Spotify  - just because your awesome doesn't mean you can't be displaced if you ignore feedback about this kind of basic functionality.

[Mookpsu]

I just love reading all these posts while I'm enjoying my true shuffle w/
Amazon Music. Just finished up my Queen Favorites custom playlist, heard
every song in random order with no duplicates until the playlist was over.
Spotify will never fix this so if you want a true shuffle either use a 3rd
party program to randomly reorder your Spotify playlist and then listen to
it with shuffle mode turned off or give your hard earned money to another
company that actually cares about its customers! I chose the latter

[Moorehabs]

I work 8 hrs a day I can't be on my phone changing. I want to hear my full list. Why change???

[samfree1991]

But did you vote....

[Lungster]

Why hasn't this been fixed yet?

[rozeboosje]

Because Spotify doesn't care about its paying customers. Simple as that.

[jlesieur]

It won't be. To them it's not an issue. Why are consumers so brand loyal these days? Big companies like this could care less about what you want. Move on to another platform.