[Mobile] [Other] Smart Shuffle toggle setting in settings menu

[LiamTems]

Smart shuffle is a fun way to discover new songs, but it comes at a cost. Want to reshuffle your queue? Bam, wait a few seconds longer. Want to unshuffle your playlist? Bam, no longer works, and goes to a completely random place in the playlist.

To me this is an unwanted complication, and I'd much rather be able to choose in the settings menu whether I want to enable the Smart Shuffle feature, or disable it.

[DJMcGoven]

Lol a moderator finally jumps into the chat just to talk to us like we're dumb. 😭

How about an actual update to what spotify is going to do about this? If you're not interested in removing it, just say that so we can move on. I hear Apple Music is pretty popular.

[5dv8xy6xt2eezzex1ixp]

Hello Ivelina, glad to see you in on this topic. Small bit of input: your post, speaks to an issue, that fewer than 5% of the posters in this thread have merely hinted at and NONE of the 95%+ of the others have asked about. So your post is most certainly not in the right forum/thread. Nobody is asking 'how to use' this 'feature' that people seem to actually hate. They are asking Spotify to either: put this feature somewhere else in the app, like "please make reccos for me" area on the first, splash screen, OR to completely remove it from peoples personally created/curated playlists - and under EVERY circumstance, disable it is the 'default' setting. Make sense? If not, please let me know. Cheers.

[BlueNote12]

The best solution to this ridiculous problem that Spotify obviously does not care about at all is to leave Spotify. I was with them from the beginning, have been a paid subscriber for years and finally cancelled my paid subscription and moved to Apple Music. No Smart Shuffle shoved down your throat and the lossless audio quality is infinitely better than Spotify.

I'd be happy to pay again for Spotify when the Smart Shuffle feature has a permanent off switch or is removed completely from the app.

[oreodoh]

Finally moved completely from not using Spotify (currently still exploring Amazon Music Unlimited) to deleting the Spotify app from all my devices. Such a shame, because there are lots of features I miss, but I can't go back to a company that doesn't listen to its paying customers.

Not saying Amazon is much better, as I have had challenges reliably finding my playlists after using TuneMyMusic to migrate them from Spotify, but hey, at least the shuffle button works! And that's enough to take me from free trial to paying customer.

My family (2 adults 3 kids) also doesn't miss Spotify much. In fact my kids were already using Amazon Music more frequently than Spotify so they've loved the change. My daughter likes Hamilton and was pleasantly surprised that she could play the entire album from the start instead of having to shuffle a bunch of "similar songs" to get to the one she really wanted to hear.

So yeah, the fact that my wife is cool with it AND the tween? Highly unlikely to go back to Spotify unless the company starts taking us seriously on this issue.

[oreodoh]

Ivelina,

Most of us know how the feature works, and we don't like it the way it's currently implemented. Personally, this is what I hope Spotify will do to fix this debacle:

1. Restore the functionality of the shuffle button to ONLY toggle shuffle mode.
2. Give $mart $huff£e its own dedicated button.
3. Allow paying customers to completely disable $mart $huff£e throughout the app, regardless of platform (android, iOS, PC, Mac, PlayStation, Xbox, etc.). This would include removal of the dedicated $mart $huffle button.

Please let us know if Spotify plans to address any of the above. Until then, I'm sticking with Amazon Music Unlimited or another service such as Apple Music.

[96037]

This overrides in my car constantly and I can't turn it off. I hate any feature that forcibly adds music to my Playlist. Every iteration of this is sucked. May as well go back to Pandora

 I switched to spotify to get away from this. 

[Sksss]

87 pages of comments.... still a "good" idea after a year and a half...

[AtHeartEngineer]

So its been over a year since this has been proposed and it still pisses me off on the daily.

Shuffle has been the same for DECADES as a TOGGLE, now there is a 3rd option that somehow comes up first (what kind of UX decision is that?!?). This is seriously a terrible UX decision, if anything it should be a separate toggle button, and the fact that it can't be disabled makes me want to cancel spotify. Youtube music isn't that bad, they just don't have a decent app, and your app is starting to get filled with stupid features and obnoxious popups.

[jobuthepirate]

Please add an option to disable this feature. This is the 10th highest voted feature request and has gone unimplemented for over 15 months. The entire scope of the feature is to add a single checkbox. An intern could do it for you in 2 weeks. The feature can stay on by default. Just make it possible to opt out.

The current approach is incredibly heavy-handed. *Every* time I enter or exit shuffle, I have to skip over this unwanted AI slop. Just make it possible to opt out.

There are 615 million monthly active users of Spotify. If each of them spends a single second per month skipping over this "feature", that works out to about 7 billion person-seconds of wasted time per year. For reference, there are about 3 billion seconds in a human lifetime. By forcing this AI slop onto everyone, you are plausibly consuming 2 human lifetimes worth of time per year.

Let me be clear. This feature sucks. I didn't ask for it. I don't want it. It's very obvious that this feature is not for me, but for Wall Street. I resent that as a paying customer, I am being manipulated like this.

Do not manipulate me for engagement. Do not force unwanted trash down my throat. I'm already giving you lots of money. Just be a good MP3 player and stay out of my way.

Add the checkbox.

[FloW503]

It would be a good idea if it wasn't constantly defaulting to it... I cannot tell you the amount of times I have turned it off and it reverted to smart shuffle. I never choose to use it, I like my playlists, that is why I made them....