[All Platforms][Other] Button on play queue to shuffle current selections

[zardox]

Currently, in the panel "Playing from play queue" below "Now playing," if there are any selections queued, there is a listing titled "Next in Queue" with one option "Clear Queue".

My request - 

Add an additional button labeled "Shuffle", have it appear only if there is more than one selection in the queue. Pressing this "shuffle" button does a random sort of the selections currently in the queue.

Note : selections below in the "Next from" section are not included, no change is made to their order.

I need this because I routinely make a selection of singles and albums from several artists but I want then to shuffle the selections. This is kind of like building a playlist on the fly.

1. An alternate idea would be to have a button that transfers selections in the queue to a playlist. But that is less preferable because I don't want a new playlist to be added

[kimbiep]

+1, agreed! This is driving me crazy and would be a very useful feature as I often use the queue to listen to new music before organizing it into appropriate playlists.

[kjbaumga]

+1.      Sometimes I've moved songs around manually in the queue to simulate the shuffle feature.      The queue really ought to have the same functionality that playlists have.

[SearchBuzz]

+1 on this. I love having a large playlist to take me through a day of work. Thats an 8 hour shift and at least 150-200 songs depending on length. Having to manually re-order them so they don't play in alphabetical order is a time consuming process I don't have time for when I come to work. I want to be able to press play like I do with any playlist, and get right on with my work with my headphones in. 

Please do add this feature. I don't really understand why its not there when it is easily implemented in a playlist in any music playing software. You can of course shuffle your play queue on other music playing software, and dare I say the competition... 

[DexelsNL]

+1 I really need  this, I use the it almost every day at works and it annoys me that something so simple is not available.

[BillRyderNZ]

+1 - I really need this.

[EngelbertSans]

You are right but it can be solved in this way:

Here comes the "solution"...

 1) create a playlist (for ex. TEMPORAL)

 2) drop the list (not the song it contains) into the "Play Queue" ("cola de reproduccion")

 3) now you can randomize all your Play Queue (because it comes from a playlist...)

 4) you can add or delette songs in your TEMPORAL ant it applies directly the "play queue"

Bye.

[mcoghillxx]

The ability to shuffle all tracks in the queue is a fundamental requirement for all media players.  Spotify is the only player / service I have used that does not support this feature.  What's the problem?  Your customers have been pointing this out for over a year.  I am  new to the premium service and find the lack of response to this request  (and many of the basic flaws) a joke.

The more I search the request forum the more I see that customers are being ignored.  Customers will ultimately vote with their dollars.

Regards,

MC

P.S.. You might want to add Spotify to the spell checker. But then again the "spotty" suggestion may be appropriate.

[dorkboy42]

+1

[purefan]

Original request was filed in February 2012, its now March 2014 and this is still not implemented.

Wonder what it takes for Spotify to react... because 2 years of requesting this have not paid off

[dedekjr]

It looks like spotify simply consider this way of queue better than the one proposed by many. Pitty. New version of app is actually pretty good but this is a huge minus. Wish I did not have to 'hacking it' through temporary playlists to enjoy properly listening.