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Shuffle play was bad before the update and now its worse. On my 442 song playlist, the same 30 or 35 tracks play over and over again and the other 400 songs I have barely heard once. I have had to delete songs because shuffle play was choosing them everytime I would listen. Spotify developers say shuffle play is random but how is repeating the same 35 songs over and over random. For some reason there is a higher probability of certain songs playing than others. This is a major flaw in the system. The shuffle play programs needs to be totally overhauled, it is awful
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Spotify LOVES supertramp.. Loves. Those are pretty much the go to songs for my app. Once it starts playing one, that's all I get when I skip for the next half dozen songs. Drives me mad. Sometimes you're just not in the mood..
Same problem. Now it jumps out of playlists!
Mines semi-shuffle! Plays a whole bands songs in a row (ie. all my AC/DC in a row) then shuffles bands and goes through all their songs in a row haha
Over a year later and it still does the same thing. Playlist of 150 and it plays the same 30 songs every time I turn on the playlist.
I have the same issue we created a work play list with 100 songs and in 2 hours we herd the same song 3 times
surely its simple to just randomise the order and play all of them then do the same again and so on
would not want to hear the same song until all songs are played.
Attached is my current queue.
I can not listen to Orgy anymore now.
Ok sure I have a lot of songs by them in my folder, but the far majority of my folder is not by Orgy.
The majority of the queue is by Orgy though (even if I scroll down as far as I can go).... In fact... I just noticed that all of them -ALL OF THEM- are songs I added in the last two weeks or so.
This is on PC. On mobile I seem to get more songs that are older as well, but a lootttt of songs are still repeated again and again every time I shuffle play. Once I just pressed the shuffle play button 10 times and 4+ of those presses resulted in the same starting song.
[EDIT: I just realised this is apparently the iOS forum but whatever, found this through Google and my answer is still relevant to the topic even though I use Windows and Android]
Currently my play history and next tracks:
If you check my history (history.png) and then the next tracks from #18 (next track further.png).. It's exactly the same songs in the same order..
How is that a shuffle?
My problem is that certain artists/albums never play while others play constantly. Fortunately I don't have the repeat songs problem. However I just added about one hundred songs by two different artists that have not played once in the last three days! I keep restarting shuffle to refresh the queue but no dice yet. Sucks.
Happened again... Same songs playing again in the same exact order... On both of these occasions i queued some random songs in beetwen these repeats.. Maybe that causes shuffle to mess up..
Had this happen during this week as well. I tried closing & reopening the app (android user) and rebooting the phone, only to see the same songs in the queue that I had just heard.
I ended up uninstalling & reinstalling the app, which appears to have solved the issue for now.
I thought I was the only one. I also have a lot of songs on my playlist, but it only plays about 25 of them throughout the day. This really sucks. Especially at work work where I have to use my phone's data and I hate wasting data on songs I've already heard 3 times already. I like many different genres of music and my playlist refects that, but its nothing but the same songs all day with Spotify "Shuffle" play.
I'm also a Pandora listener and I do like the randomness of it at times. But one thing I like about Spotify is that it lets me choose the songs I want to hear and sometimes I just want the hear the tracks I choose, but Spotify is useless if it continously plays the same songs over and over.
I don't understand what is so hard about making it completely random.
This is bull crap...
I have a masters degree in statistics and I'm well prepared to show that a trial of 1000+ rotations in a song list of 200 is not random using statistical methodology.
I can't believe this has been going on for so long, I want to listen to something else other than the same 50 songs every day.
when i shuffle my playlist it plays them in the exact order every time
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