Shuffle Play on Artist Page is Awful

[marcus00]

I've had a lot of issues with the Shuffle Play option on the Artist pages.  I use search to find an artist, hit "Shuffle Play" hoping to hear a good mix of their stuff and just get a continuous helping of tracks from one or two albums. 

Here's an example.  The band Front 242 has 23 albums in Spotify.  I hit Shuffle Play and almost every track that comes up is from Moments 1 or Moments from Budapest.  Rarely a track from an older/other album will appear (1-2 out of 25 tracks).

I'm having issues with Front Line Assembly as well.  It only appears to play tracks from playlists I have created for the artist and nothing else.  They have 34 albums and the only albums I get tracks from are their two newest (which I have created playlists for) and one or two older tracks that I have in other playlists.  I cannot get anything to play outside of what I have saved in a playlist.  It will play the same tracks, then, instead of going to any of the other tracks on the other 30+ albums, it immediately jumps into radio mode playing tracks from similar artists. 

This only happens on my iPhone.  I just tried to hit the "play" button on the web version on the artist page with shuffle enabled and got a good random mix of tracks from both artists' full discography.

Help?

[BRN75]

Hey,

Spotify on any computer will have more premium features than any phone running Spotify free, which I gather you are using. The only way around it is to upgrade to premium, otherwise if you’re exploring music, there’ll usually be some good playlists in “browse”. 

[marcus00]

Hi,

Thanks for your response.  I am actually a preimum user and have been for many years now.

[BRN75]

Oh, that’s pretty strange. I guess if you want to get a proper mix you could save the albums and play from saved artists, but that wouldn’t be convinient at all. Can’t offer much else unfortunately 

[marcus00]

Thanks for trying.  Hopefully someone at Spotify will see this and offer a solution.  I've thought about creating a playlist of all the albums, but yeah, that's not very convenient and kind of defeats the purpose of the shuffle play button.