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

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

Updated on 2025-03-03

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Comments
harald_h

How can this still not be implemented? It's like _the_ basic feature of any decent music player..

jsmrtz

 It's 2017 an this is still not a feature. Come on guys!!

detto87

What is taking so long for this? It's really the only thing that keeps Spotify from being useable to me. Apple Music and many others have this functionality.

rodehoed

2017 and i still have to make playlists to shuffle?!?! Come on Spotify fix this bug.

deathbatphteven

I agree 100% with this. This is my biggest gripe with the Spotify desktop and mobile App. I want to be able to add albums to the queue on the fly and shuffle them instead of listening to them in order. In older music software I've used this has been called "Add to Now Playing." 

Chingao

I use to be with Pandora and there their shuffle was okay. Many repetitive sings but at least you had a variety!!! Here $5.00 more and Daniel it! You're stick with only one album over n over!!! 

JakubWrong

3 years later. Obvious bug still not fixed 😄 What's so difficult about it? 

randInt

That's not a missing feature that's OBVIOUSLY a bug, I mean every music player works like that. It's clearly not intutive, and totaly user-unfriendly...

Filipedls

Well 2 years after and no shuffle?! needing help implementing it?! -> http://www.cplusplus.com/reference/algorithm/random_shuffle/

kyosho

Please for the love of god, let me shuffle my music!