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[Discover] Play random Songs from complete Spotify Catalogue

The idea is especially for people who love music, without focusing on a special genre. An "Ultimate Shuffle Button" will pick random songs from all songs available on Spotify. You can explore songs, you might never get in touch with and learn new music - or just skip if you don't like it. This function helps you to just try out something new and find out about varieties in music.

 

Edit: All Audiobooks should be excluded from this function!

Updated on 2019-10-31

Hey folks,
We really appreciate so many of you coming to the Community, adding your votes and comments to this idea!
We're keeping this idea on 'Not Right Now', as this isn't something we have any immediate plans to implement.
If we do have any new info to share, rest assured we'll check back in here with a new status.
Thanks .

Comments
Weinerfaty69

It can't be that's hard to do.... Get us a new feature this cost has risen so much with nothing new 

dominikantoni

It's really sad that Spotify can't provide people with such an option. Then at least: offer it as an extra if i pay a dollar more or something. Spotify is a library, why am I always stuck in my own algorithm bubble? It would be easy for Spotify to offer such an option. But unfortunately not interesting for the big labels, because then we would also consume a lot of independent music. Very sad. Why don't you finally open up your archive and let people discover music fairly?

 

bestofcomputer

i need a function to use spotify as a radio station playing random songs either from :

- all spotify catalog ;

- or songs from specified genres or styles (either i specify those, or an AI would recommend some, based on my tastes and preferences) ;

- or songs from all my saved playlists (mixed) ;

Hi,

Spotify needs better discovery features to take you out of your comfort zone.

The current systems (daily mix, dj, song radio, discover weekly) easily turn into an echo chamber and feels very stale. Your other options lead you down a narrow selection of curated genre playlists. there are not many avenues for discovering new or less mainstream music currently.

 

Spotify needs to add more discovery features. One simple idea for such a feature would be to add a "surprise me" button to the interface or a dedicated radio (like DJ) that would play a completely random song from the entire spotify catalog. This would reduce the amount of feedback loops and gatekeeping in the spotify ecosystem and remove middlemen that stop smaller artists from being discovered.

felipealcantara

This feature would be amazing! It could even be a button, or even an automated playlist, called "SURPRISE ME!".

And if playing from the whole catalog is too expensive, this sort of playlist could be filled by a random sample from the catalog periodically, similar to Release Radar's behavior.

Perhaps it could even use vector distance to stablish a threshold, but instead of setting a MAX "distance", it should set a MIN distance from what you usually listen to...

larauerc

a button like Netfl1x does, where Spotify can suggest a random song from literally anything. maybe we're introduced to new artists and genres like this. it could be on the home page maybe. sometimes I just don't know what I want to listen to, and I know we have the playlists made for ourselves but those are genre organised. I mean a button that can literally take us ANYWHERE in the spotify catalog, even unknown songs and artists.