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Plan
Premium
Country
Australia
Device
Echo
Operating System
Amazon Echo
My Question or Issue
The Spotify skill for shuffling my playlist, always plays the first song in my playlist and then shuffles the rest of the playlist beautifully. I’m sure this would be a small tweak to the Amazon skill to ensure it shuffles straight away when we ask ‘Alexa shuffle playlist’
Same here. Until December the Spotify shuffle functioned reliably on Google Home devices, but there are now also problems. It seems that Amazon and Google don't want the shuffle to work on Spotify. It works for Amazon Music and Google Music.
Since Spotify does not respond to user complaints I don't see any reason why I shouldn't change to another music provider.
Same issue here (in Germany). Very frustrating.
Hey everyone,
Thanks for reaching out and searching for the answer you need her.
We appreciate your reports of Alexa devices starting to shuffle playlists with the same song when using voice command and have passed them on to the relevant team.
We can't set a specific timeframe for when this issue will be fixed, but recommend that you keep your Spotify and Alexa apps up to date, so you can make use of all fixes, as soon as they are made available.
Hope this shines a bit of light on the matter. We'll be here if you have any other questions.
"We can't set a specific timeframe for when this issue will be fixed"
probably never. alexa is in the market since 2014 so if 6 years weren't enough to fix this probably the next 123456789 years also wouln't be enough
7 months later.. any news from Spotify?
There is a track called One Second of Silence by Quality Assured Hipsters. Put this as the first track in your playlist. https://open.spotify.com/track/4jaXxB0DJ6X4PdjMK8XVfu?si=cb2dbc525a684640
It's a hack, but it works.
I just got an Alexa and noticed the problem right away and found this thread. I have written radio automation software and know that this does not take much work to get right.
OK I take it back. It looks like they fixed the problem. I only recently got an Alexa, and Spotify for that matter. Saying something like "Shuffle 80s pop" now seems to work, whereas "play 80s pop" plays the same songs in the same order as expected. I don't want to speak too soon, but hopefully they fixed it.
I’ve cracked this if it’s any help:
New routine: Spotify liked (doesn’t have to be the same as mine)
When this happens : voice
When: A1exa play my play list, A1exa play my liked songs, A1exa play my liked playlist
Add action: music & podcasts
Play: My like songs & shuffle
Tick provider & select Spotify
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