[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.

[andrei_btz]

Hi team, Please add this feature. As much as smart shuffle is liked by some people, most people have a poor experience with this feature. We would like to have the option to permanently disable it so it won’t “cycle” through when toggling shuffle on/off. Thanks!

[frajolaspotify]

Incredibly annoying idea. Whoever came up with this? It's about time that Spotify either did away with this altogether terrible idea, or at least let users disable it in their settings. 

[ngowerjo]

Yet another example from Spotify of "we want to choose what music you want to listen to". I think I'm pretty capable of making those decisions myself. 

[vdheijdentom]

Smart Shuffle is useless and unwanted. Please include a setting to permanently disable this.

[Ivelina]

Hey folks,

Just jumping in here with a new image to better understand what each of the playback buttons mean:

Cheers 🙂

[Ivelina]

Hey folks,

Just jumping in here with a new image to better understand what each of the playback buttons mean:

Cheers 🙂

[0C3]

@Ivelina we know how it works, we know what it does. We do not want it though.

The shuffle icon/function is a universal long-time function on physical devices and apps, for tens of years. It works like this: shuffle on, shuffle off. It does NOT have a third function. It should NOT have a third function.

The difference in normal shuffle and smart-shuffle icon is very minimal, often not noticable right away on small screens and/or while for example driving. The UX is horrible!

On top of all that, it's often not working properly; enabling or disabling smart-shuffle is slow and bugged. It seems to randomly activate itself often. It takes multiple seconds to enable/disable. It's frustrating.

So PLEASE let us have an option to disable smart-shuffle. Or give it it's own button.

The current way is not the way and all these upvoted/replies here should prove as much. Start listening to your (paying!) customers!

[Talos1]

Hi Ivelina,

Thanks for interacting in the topic, it helps to show that Spotify does have a presence here. Confusion over the similarity of the graphics chosen to show the linear, shuffle or smart shuffle arent really the issue presented by the original poster and the vast majority of comments. We are asking for a toggle to be added to the settings to allow the shuffle button to function in 2 modes, linear and shuffle instead of linear, shuffle and smart shuffle.

I hope this helps clarify the idea better.

Thanks again for responding and please reach out if you have any questions.

[DJMcGoven]

That is not helpful @Ivelina

[Sksss]

This situation is just beyond any critique. Spotify wants holocaust to look like a minor inconvenience. 

Support stopped responding to my emails long time ago because id keep asking about the shmart shuffle. Why cant we get the simple fix of being able to disable it, not see it popping up. 

It made me despise this whole company and app, even tho i used to really love it.

But today? 

Screw spotify. I wish this company fails