[All Platforms] Option to have a true shuffle

[jonathanleyerle]

So I’ve been noticing more and more recently that Spotify’s default shuffle feature doesn’t fully shuffle your songs. It does some sort of grouping to try to get similar songs together based off of what I’m sure is dozens of factors. Every time I shuffle a playlist (the one I noticed this with the most is ~100 songs and 6 hours of mostly full albums) it will group the songs mostly or completely together by album/artist, and given the number of times I’ve re-shuffled and checked the order there’s no way it’s just a coincidence. They also generally seem to be in the same order as well. If I hit shuffle play on a playlist it’ll generally put the same artists at the beginning every time.

With larger playlists of albums I am really not a fan of this shuffling method. If I have 6 hours of music on a playlist I will hardly ever have 6 hours to actually listen through the whole thing, but when I do listen to it I would like to hear all of the music on it equally, and not just the artist or two your algorithm likes to shuffle to first.

Anyways, I’m a reasonable man, all I’m asking for is an option to have a true shuffle (take all songs in the list, put them in a random order, and once they’re all played reshuffle them and play them again). Make it premium only if you want. I don’t think you should scrap the current shuffle algorithm because it sucks. Looking at some of the suggestions on here it seems like some people lobbied hard to have it that way. Just add an option for a true shuffle for those of us that don’t care about potentially getting the same song twice in a row.

[zx6dude]

Four years later and over 3200 votes later, and still no true shuffle. How is this possible Spotify?

Do you actually care for your customers? Please stop playing the same songs on my playlist over and over again. 

[blondothenerd]

Another simple way to bring song discovery would be to play all the artists we listen to, but not the songs we normally listen to of the artists. 
So for example, if you listen to U2, then we've all heard of "With or without you" but what about one other random song that you may not be listening to from U2: "Heartland"

It's simple really!

[portisroads]

I'd be willing to be beta. I'm tired of it playing the sames songs in a massive playlist

[PeteyT19]

Please, please fix the shuffle feature to a TRUE SHUFFLE of the ENTIRE playlist. I have built a 79 hour and 22 minute playlist of a huge variety of songs for a reason. I want to hear different songs all day long. Not the same 50-100 over and over in the same order. Arrrghh! So frustrating! Even when I forward thgough the repeats it just keeps circling back around to those same songs.

[disc_count]

zx6dude, the answer to your question is that they don't care, unfortunately.

[jpm-178]

I'm gonna set up a navidrome server and use that. See ya spotify

[elin-y]

I am going to cancel my family subscription and move on to YouTube Music. What is so difficult for fxking shuffle feature, which requires only one line of code?? I'm fed up with**bleep**, which makes me angry every time I drive, and the same songs keeps playing. I'm not going to pay for such **bleep** and broke my mental health. Bye bye loser Spotify and their **bleep**ed developers. 

[rozeboosje]

Don't hold back now

[stevemcgowan1954]

I've over 1400 tracks how can I copy them over to something like you tube
music?

[elin-y]

I used soundiiz to transfer my playlist to YT Music.