shuffle playlist seems to play the same songs

[hypergreatthing]

Whenever i'm in the car, i turn on android auto and play a playlist that's already on shuffle, but on the way home i hear the same songs. I have 809 songs in the playlist, i don't think in a 15 minute drive i should be hearing the same sequence of songs.

[PichPoch]

"We can confirm that the shuffle option prioritizes the songs that Spotify perceives you listen to most, that's why some songs can come up repeatedly."

The heck are you taking ? Do you understand how that creates an effed feedback loop ?

"We think you listen to these song a lot so we will play them more".

A week later "Since you listen to these songs so much, we'll put them in the rotation even more"

Another month later "Wow you really listened to those songs a lot, better keep spamming you with them"

Do you even begin to understand how dumb that sound ?

[clownfragment]

@spotify people:

The reason I have a playlist is to listen to a variety of songs I put on the playlist. I don't need you to prioritize that for me, I already prioritized things into a playlist. That's a really terrible feature if you think about it.

[clownfragment]

Right? It's such a ridiculous assumption. I literally want to listen to my playlist randomly when I hit random. Otherwise I wouldn't hit random. What are these people thinking?

[Scionman]

Plan

DUO

Country

Canada

Device

All my devices

Operating System

All my systems

My Question or Issue

I find my playlist, while on shuffle, playing the same 100 songs while I have thousands of songs. Somehow, randomizing my songs dosen't randomize them.

[saravitoriafilizzola]

The same order of music playing correctly, I have already uninstalled and installed it again and the problem still persists. It's annoying to listen to music like this, please solve the problem because I only listen to this playlist because it has what I like  

[DeerMilky]

The fact that this issue still persists in 2025 is mind-boggling;

Same problem for me, 1000's of songs in the playlist and it plays the same 50-100 songs every damn time, to a point where take these songs out of my playlist because i can't hear them anymore without it being grating to my ears and brain.

Spotify please remove this STUPID algorithm, it's not working. just go back to ye olde MP3 player random days where the random function ACTUALLY RANDOMIZED THE ORDER OF THE SONGS, it's not that complicated.

[lg95]

How on earth is a true random shuffle a novel concept for an 8000-person company? Why on earth do you think your users want to listen to the exact same order of songs? How are you actually helping them discover new music?

This is a sham, and this problem is not "solved" as the moderator has proclaimed.

[zx6dude]

This is far from being "solved"

I got so tired of listening to the same songs over and over again, I moved to another provider. 

Spotify, ironically for a music streaming service, made start to hate certain songs used love as they were repeated so much. 

[#10]

Hello,
Since a longer time I have the Issue that in my Playlists the shuffle function is always playing the same songs. I tried to Re-Install the app and as well I tried to clean the cache of the App without any Improvement. It's really annoying that I have to skip so many songs to hear something I didn't listen to a few hours ago.

[wendyj]

It's 2025 and I'm having the same issue. Same with low volume in Spotify App on a new computer. 

This is some BS. For what we pay monthly. If Spotify starts making us listen to ads in paid subs, I'm just quitting all together and sticking with Youtube Music.

[zx6dude]

@Eni I know you are only doing your job, this is not a solution, it's a description of why this happens, but doesn't fix anything. This issue has made me leave Spotify (aka Greedfy).

At least call it something else rather than shuffle, whatever Spotify does is not shuffle.