Why is shuffle playing the same songs repeatedly on a 48hr+ long playlist

[FlibertyGibbit123]

On Linux Android and Windows the app just does not shuffle It only plays about the same 15 or 20 songs occasionally throws in one more and just repeats. I don't know if this is tailored content that's getting ad revenue or what. If I can't shuffle a 40+hour playlist and not hear the same song four times in a day I'm canceling the service. This is ridiculous, there's no answers from anywhere, no help chat. Go ask the community, give us 10$

[Tr1ggsy]

I'm glad it's not just me, my main playlist is over 7000 songs, 433hr long. When I use smart shuffle it "latches" on to a specific album and will play shuffled songs but every 2nd or 3rd song will be from that latched on album. I find it happens less with standard shuffle but even then it still plays the most popular songs and ones I come to recognise as common ones. There are 7000+ songs, I should start to notice the same songs coming on!

[L0Luk4s]

Plan

Premium

Country

Lithuania

Device

(iPhone 15, PC)

Operating System

(iOS 17.4.1, Windows 11,etc.)

My Question or Issue
Everyday I play my like song's playlist on smart shuffle or normal shuffle and it does not change the queue of my songs. Yes it plays in different pattern but everytime i want to hear a new song I press my play button with shuffle feature and it plays the same pattern over an over. As for example: I press play: 1.SONG 5 2.SONG3 3.SONG 7. And when i press play again it goes like 1.SONG 5 2.SONG3 3.SONG 7. Why on every playlist is the same thing ?

[#4]

Only playing a portion of my 554 songs in liked songs playlist. Getting to point where I want to delete repetative songs!

[tupperface]

any solution yet? seems to be a desktop app problem primarily. smart shuffle through favorite songs isn't working / always repeats in the same order. would be nice and appropriate to get some support for this!

[Tr1ggsy]

Mine is on the Android app, I should have added that 🤣🤦‍♂️

[Kath15]

Doesn’t work.   I’ve had this issue ongoing for years. Ridiculous. 

[thedaver]

For last 9-12 months on Android a bias to play the same 30-ish songs from a 400 song playlist.  Some fixes to break the loop have been to delete cache, reinstall app, and sometimes click a song from the playlist while in shuffle loop.  Each of these seems to be a temporary fix for the bias to return to the same subset of songs.