Make Smart Shuffle A Secondary Option

[covjack]

I'm not saying remove Smart Shuffle, or even to add a toggle switch to turn it off.

Just undo whatever was done to make Smart Shuffle the default shuffle mode. We should only listen to Smart Shuffle songs if we deliberately choose to, otherwise the whole concept of a playlist goes out the window. Make it so we have to intentionally turn it on.

Amazing to me that people have been clamoring for over a year for somthing to be done about this egregious annoyance. Does Spotify care about its customers? If we pay for a Premium service we should have Premium-level control over the music we listen to.

[12165376033]

Put it back in the bin, where it belongs

[stickbomb]

Been saying this since they came out with it. It appears to be this way on PC, but not mobile. 

[ShadowWolfe]

I'd say remove it. When in Offline Mode, it's absolutely ridiculous that you have to press the Shuffle button, wait for it to (seemingly) loop in the background to realize it's Offline, and then it goes back to regular shuffle.

[tts42572]

Agree with this.

The smart shuffle is annoying.

If I'm listening to a playlist, it's because I made that playlist and that's what I want to listen to.

It get's annoying when I just want to shuffle and think that's what I'm doing.....and then songs start getting played that aren't in my playlist.

Just make smart shuffle it's own option or a setting you can turn on or off in main settings.

[sssethhh]

Could not agree more. Why would I deliberately create a playlist with certain songs that I chose only for the first shuffle option to just randomly add songs I didn't choose?? If I wanted to find a playlist that was curated for my by Spotify I'd choose one of the hundreds available to me on the Home screen. I agree that smart shuffle is a fun feature, and shouldn't removed entirely but it should only be a secondary option after a user has clicked past the original shuffle feature.

I'll add here that as a UI/UX professional that clicking on an icon that you've been clicking on for the entire life of the app only to have that icon change shape and function once its pressed is awful UX.

[888ismael]

They should make it like the enhance button they had before smart shuffle

[krucyfiks]

I am usually composed and it's very difficult to disrupt my balance or ruin my mood, but this issue manages to do so constantly. I have my own taste and don't need this junk, yet it turns on by itself and cannot be removed, it's a tragedy... I hope that whoever is responsible for implementing this garbage will atone for it in their next life!

In reality, @Spotify Team, please give people the option to completely disable this in the settings. I understand that some people like it because they have some music playing, but we don't pay for a subscription to listen to a radio that is universally free and equally accessible from anywhere on earth. 

Please, make an update and save humanity. ❤️

[Scarabouille]

I use shuffle a lot (most of the time actually). Smart shuffle by default is very annoying. I don't mind if it's active on the second tap.

[ohalistair]

@rikverstraete, what you just described is quite literally the opposite of communism.

[wizardtree]

We need the ability to disable smart shuffle.  Think about the users using your app for millions of hours a day.  The workers at Spotify will only be considering this issue for 0.0001% of the amount of time people are using the app.  Smart shuffle is in a bad enough spot it almost comes across as a bug.

Lags and takes about 3 seconds to change away from smart shuffle every time.  And suddenly the order in which smart shuffle comes up and regular shuffle comes up as you click shuffle has swapped.  Every single user will have gone through this issue and had to re-learn where smart shuffle is.  It also forces smart shuffle even more in peoples faces.