Shuffle Play is broken

[JonHynes]

Either Shuffle Play is broken, or it was falsely advertised.

Shuffle Play for an artist lasts no longer than 3 to 4 songs before other artists are put it the mix. All Shuffle Play does is create a radio station based on artist.

Do you mind explaining this to me?

[Joe]

As the FAQ says......."When you press play you’ll hear a  mix of that album or artist plus similar tracks. You'll also receive some suggested tracks when listening to albums with less than 12 tracks". Take out a premium subscription and enjoy your music.

[JonHynes]

That's still incredibly disingenuous. Again, after the initial couple songs, it can take 45 minutes just to hear another from the intended artist.

[Joe]

If an album contains less than 12 tracks, pop those into a playlist and add some other music you like so that you have at least twelve tracks and play that. You'll reduce the added tracks that way.

[JonHynes]

My point is simple: don't advertise Shuffle Play if it is NOTHING more than an Artist-Seed Radio Station. Spotify already had the radio stations.

Advertising the same thing as Shuffle Play is simply bait-and-switch.

But it's not like Spotify is in the habit of being honest.

[Peter__]

Shuffle play and radio are different things.

Shuffle play will shuffle the tracks in a playlist, artist page or album page. To prevent people from abusing the system and shuffling a small number of tracks to get an almost un-shuffled mode, the system will automatically add tracks if there are less than 12 on the playlist, artist/album page.

Artist radio will always play around 20% of the selected artist (from my experience) along with related tracks.