I've been wanting to talk about this for longest, since this has kind of been a problem for me within the past few years of me using Spotify. This may not exactly be an idea, but I just really want to talk about it.
For context, I mostly use Spotify on my PS5 when I'm gaming and I think it's really great to use as it is free to use on there and doesn't require a subscription like Apple Music does, and I hope it stays that way. My main issue is with the shuffle option and how it does not actually shuffle the songs that are in queue.
Mind you I have over 1,092 songs saved on my 'Liked Song' list, and it feels like I'm constantly getting the exactly same songs or songs that are similar to them, which is strange because I thought that 'shuffle' was completely random, but apparently shuffle the feature might run off of some kind of statistic, like songs that you play the most or something like that, which heard on either here or, and it probably explains why I wouldn't hear a song from an artist for months on my list and IMO completely defeats the purpose of having shuffle if it doesn't actually shuffle. There would be many times when I would even get the same exact songs in one session, and I'm like “did I not just hear that song?”. Like yesterday and the day before, I got the exact same queue of shuffled songs, it's that bad.
Please fix the other bugs that may be plaguing Spotify, such as after an advertisement finishing. It just completely freezes, and it doesn't play the next song or next advertisement, and I would have to completely exit Spotify and replay my playlist, and it may not just be Spotify itself or just the version of Spotify that's on PS5. Maybe it could be different; I'm not sure, but I really hope this gets fixed.
Thank you for reading.