[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

[michii]

Unbelievable how nothing changed in over three years. This is such a simple feature so many demand.

[skarnl]

My only concern is how do you determine when you want to shuffle the queued songs and when do you want to play songs in an order?

I often shuffle my playlist and then just want to add 1-2-3 songs on top of the queue, because I just feel like listening to them. And after that, the shuffled playlist just continues. So if the shuffle would influence my queue, that wouldn't be feasible for my usage.

So if not implemented in a transparent way, this would be a -1 for me.

[tedsolley]

I am astonished that I cannot shuffle the songs I drop into my queue.  

[denemedeneme]

+1

[tvgeekqueen]

This i why i never use spotify. i litterly made an account 2 years ago and i come back every 6 months or so to "give it another shot" and this is the sole reason that after 5 mins i go back to my primary music provider. Unfortunately grooveshark was taken down and now rdio has been bought by pandora son now i go to youtube. Why is on-demand music streaming such an uneccesary complication?

[vhaaren]

Spotify!!!!  Why does your player have to be difficult???  It's ridiculous how the play list and queue songs are handled, how added songs are added and not mixed in, how I can't put in 5 albums and shuffle them up (like I could 25 years ago on a cd player), how I pick an album from an artist and 10 more albums get added below.....I could go on and on.  I've been following posts on this site for a year and apparently, listening to your customers is not a top priority.

Take just about ANY FREE media player out there and the current queue handles things just fine.  But noooo, not Spotify.  I can't even say it's archaic, because no player that I've ever experience operated like this, EVER! 

Even a simply CLEAR THE PLAYLIST button would be nice. 

Media Monkey would be a good example of a player that works 'normally'.  It simple and concise, and I'm never surprised by how things are added or what order they are playing in. 

Make some progress on you customers requests PLEASE!!!!! 

[nightsky07]

Yeah, liike everybody else has stated this problem is beyond infuriating.....could it be that artists or ? demand that the queue work the the way does in order to create play counts/profits for individual artists?  I know this sound crazy as well, but surely it's not a technical problem, so what gives?

[saved]

Another feature we shouldn't need to ask (beg!) for. It's a basic function of any well designed music streaming site.

[RickNY]

It's also why I've moved on from Spotify and cancelled my paid subscription. Don't incorporate basic functionality that's requested, and I just go elsewhere.

[Djrayza]

Need to find something that has this feature cause without it this app is useless. Also annoying that the played songs can't be gone back to. An if you skip ahead in the "queue" all songs skipped disappear. Even making a playlist to shuffle songs isn't working because if you want to say add your discovery weekly playlist to a bunch of other songs then play on random you can't add the other playlist to the new without going through it song by song like its the 90's or something. If they don't fix these problems or revert back to the "way it was" I'll probably be switching to something that does what I want it to. Any suggestions really frustrated trying to figure it out when all I want to do is listen to music.