[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

[Luckyscar]

5 years, still not implemented :0

[Filipedls]

no shuffleshuffle

Someone did it!!!!

[immts007]

Still can't shuffle the queue. Such a simple, obvious function... why can't we do this?

[Filipedls]

Because they made an executive decision not to implement it... Executives
just do what **bleep** they want...

[Derots]

please implement this, my vote is registered.

[immts007]

Yeah, as Filipedls notes above - Google Play Music has this feature, it's important enough to me that I'm trying the service out. The pricing is the same. Please, Spotify, listen to your customers! I've been a paying premium (now on Family Plan) customer since you became available in the US. I'd don't like the idea of rebuilding playlists on another service, but if you can't do this obvious, obvious, feature - I might be tempted to defect.

[IntrinsicRhythm]

new to spotify and premium. just added two albums to the queue. then pressed the shuffle symbol but nothing happened. queue is playing in order. as a long time google play music user, I'm shocked to discover that my queue can't be shuffled like all other players. what is the shuffle icon even doing? I can't figure it out... people have been asking for this for over 3 years??? what is going on? I like to queue like 10 albums and then shuffle them. is the only way to do this by making a playlist? weak. the competition has your functionality beat. this and not queuing to the end of whatever is playing when adding to queue. I don't get it. How can your dev team think "yeah this is great"??? mind boggling.

[thundernixon]

I'm DJing a spur-of-the-moment christmas queue for a party with my classmates, and I reeeally wish that shuffle could work on the queue. I now realize I could have put things into a playlist, then shuffled that, but I didn't think of it until coming here and thinking about why the product team might argue against the idea. But, I started playing when people asking for music, then adding from various christmas playlists ... so now I don't want to change it over to a playlist. 

Anyway, thanks for a good product overall, but this would be super nice-to-have. Also, thanks for finally letting us remove songs from discovery weekly! That started here, and I am so glad to have that ability now. 🙂

[mannte]

Why has this good idea not been implemented, after 3 years?!

[meahtenoha]

Updated on 2018-01-04

Hey everyone, thanks for continuing to bring us your feedback on Shuffle working with Queued songs too. Right now we don't have this in our timeline so we're marking it as Not Right Now. Please know I've personally brought this to the team behind the Play Queue so they can factor in your 454 with future decisions. If I get an update I'll let you all know here.