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

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.

Updated on 2025-03-03

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Bree2224

It won’t even let me vote. I can’t go on with Smart Shuffle anymore. I want to TURN IT OFF

luckytoknowyou

How many votes constitutes "enough"? Given how many votes this already has, this sounds like another avoidance tactic. You're just proving what users want doesn't matter.

-Karma-

Yeah they don’t care what we paying users want. They’re too big too fail, the only thing they care about are advertisers, shareholders, their business partners e.g. record labels etc. 

 

This forum is just a psyop invented for people to vent into a void, you can „vote“ all you want, the most basic sensible things to add/not to add flies over their radar.

Unless suddenly 50million users cancel their subscriptions at once and refuse to return, that’s when they will start to care and slowly start to fix and improve the service, because otherwise there will be less people they can advertise to.


(Yes they even advertise to Premium users with „Recommendations“ and paid for by record labels promoted albums/artists forced on the homefeed, lots off other subtle and obvious ads plastered in various places all over the app. Smart Shuffle is just another way for record labels to promote/force their way into people’s playlists)

 

Again they don’t care and don’t respect the paying users.

musicpls1234

please god this is the most annoying feature let me turn it off

GimmeTogglePlzSenpai

I hate smart shuffle; it’s bad. I liked playlist radios, but those are gone. Now I rely on individual song radios, which is all good. But smart shuffle? Nope. The amount of times I’ve hit the shuffle button to turn it off, only to have it cycle and go right back to smart shuffle has brought me here to complain. I almost never do this with products haha. I just want a permanent off toggle. It’s insane I’ve been waiting the better part of a year for y’all to implement this when this is one of the top upvoted ideas. Jfc.

 

Pair this with lack of higher bitrate / anything beyond stereo support aaaaand yikes. Y’all are kicking yourself in the teeth for no good reason.

Soundcloudisbetter66

How much is enough votes, i’m sick of**bleep** feature and i’m about to cancel my subscription and move my years of music to soundcloud. That’s how sick of**bleep** i am. **bleep** spotify get rid of**bleep** laggy feature you money hungry freaks

Cclement

Hello, on the free package, remove the limits for playing music, for example: we can play unlimited music but there will be advertisements..

bulldog010

If it worked as intended, that'd be one thing. On desktop, it doesn't remove the smart recommendations from the queue. It automatically turns on after a few seconds, so even if I click the shuffle button to toggle between smart shuffle and shuffle, it just leaves its extra songs in the queue and turns itself back on. It should take an intern an hour to build a setting for this, global or per-playlist. It's an unbelievably poor user experience. I just want to shuffle my personally curated playlist without anything else added to it. 

johnometalman

I HATE the smart shuffle feature!! WORST feature ever.. really annoying!!!! 

appalling

what would be sooo easy for you to do, and is so annoying that you don't do already, is to just take the input before doing the work. It's so so so so so so so so so so so frustrating to have to wait 3 seconds everytime between taps, knowing that the only way to take it away is to tap again, and it would be so easy to just let me tap it immediately. It needs to be instatnt. it feels broken and awful. Idk how it's possible that it doesn't work like this w all the designers u have