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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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Yes, this is ridiculous. Guys are running multimillion dollar solution, but they can't do same thing that was possible with CD's already 30 years ago.
I have been really happy generally with Spotify, but that awful "shuffle" has made me to look other options and also forced to switch partly back to old "upload the mp3's to my phone"-solution. Even phone's music player can do the thing what has been requested from spotify for several years.
They are trying to invent something "really fabulous and new" when people are just requesting that basic old and good solution. Wake up!
Amen brother...in same boat...
Frustrated with you guys....
Please fix this....
I've always had the same problem. Same songs, most never, repeats before others are heard, etc. I WANT TO HEAR ALL OF THE SONGS IN THE PLAYLIST BEFORE I HEAR THE SAME ONE TWICE. THAT IS WHAT SHUFFLE IS. ALSO, IT SHOULDN'T RUN THROUGH THE SAME SONGS OR SAME ORDER EVERYTIME, NO MATTER WHERE I START. Please let me know if there is a way to fix this. I have had so many problems with Spotify that as soon as I can find something else, I WILL DEFINITELY SWITCH. This shuffle is just so ridiculous. Like so many people have already said in this thread. It should be so simple to fix.
My solution has been to use a randomizer website (don't want to post a link but search for "thoseannoyingdupes randomizer"). I used that to make a new playlist, and I just play that playlist in order, deleting songs from the top as I hear them. For a short playlist you should be able to use the site to generate several random variations and add them all to the same playlist. It's not a great solution but it works.
I posted something on this a couple of weeks ago, and it was marked as a duplicate of a completely unrelated topic. Very annoyed as a paying customer.
I agree, that shuffle is a problem. In fact, the actual problem is that rather than randomize the playlist, it just rolls the dice each time a song plays, often repeating songs, and never makeing through the whole list.
What we really want is to have a given playlist randomized, then actually play that list beginning to end. There are several websites that show how to do this manually, but it's a hassle. Spotify, please add a randomize playlist funtion.
This is absolutely true and it would take VERY LITTLE EFFORT on Spotify's part to fix this lack of randomization. The fact that THEY WON'T DO IT is very dissatifying and
makes me want to quit.
Why is this saying 'solved'? That is rubbish!
For those of us still paying and using SpotIfy 'Just Leave' isn't a soloution.
How can we mark this thread as NOT SOLVED?
Hi Elmerb,
I also thought about it.. (And, the slience of the spotify product team on this specific enhancemnt request is actually very loud.....)
Would be interesting to test it, we can choose a public playlist and see if we all get the same songs playing again and again....
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