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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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I'm pretty sure it will never be fixed, and here's the reason why:
Shuffle is such a simple feature to program, it should have been right in the first place. After all those years, nothing has been fixed, which i'm sure is intentionally.
Then why is it as such? To know that, we must look at the sole primary purpose of any business, money!
I'm convinced Spotify has an incentive in prioritizing some songs over others. This could be due to a difference in royalties to be paid, or because certain artists or publishers promote their work by paying Spotify to prioritize it in shuffle.
The fact is just so very obvious and really frustrating. For example i have a playlist of a couple 100's of songs, where i once added a whole album to by mistake. When i play the list in shuffle, the songs of that album were constantly playing, time after time! It was driving me nuts and I got so fed up by it that i removed the songs as they came.
The shuffle just doesn’t seem to work at all any more. I have over 2,600 songs and I only hear about 50 of them. The shuffle just keeps playing my recently saved songs just in different orders? Please please fix this, it’s bringing down my love for this app & I’ll have to move if this continues.
So it wasn’t just an impression!
I have a playlist with new releases (from 80 to 90 songs which I add and delete weekly according to new releases), but it seems the app only plays the same 15-20 songs!
i just played the same playlist on shuffle 2 seperate times today and both times they played the same first 5 or 6 songs. what is going on over here?
So it is incorrect to hit the “Shuffle Play” button to start the listening of a playlist?
Thanks for the advice, I haven’t read anything similar so yet.
My first post to this thread was Jan 2015!
I listened to A LOT of Spotify last year....something like 37, 000 hrs as we were restoring a house that took about 6 months; with Spotify as the music for most of the project.
The only way I found to hear every song in a playlist with hundreds or thousands of songs/tracks is to NOT USE SHUFFLE.
Read back a few pages on this thread and you will find Spotify SHUFFLE essentially holds a "buffer" of 100 playlist entries. If you use SHUFFLE, you will get that buffer of 100 songs; you will continually hear the artists and tracks you manually queue up most frequently. The algorithm is not correct in its assessment that "if a listener listened to "X" then said listener wants to hear "X" every 3 tracks played".
The best way I found to hear all the songs/tracks in a playlist is by filtering by Title. You will get repeats when the song titles are the same; different versions or mixes of the same titled song/track....BUT you will hear evrything. Same if you filter to ALBUM...but then you don't get that "radio" kind of "randomness" of different artists.
I doubt Spotify will ever make their SHUFFLE algo work as many of us suppose it should.
It's now 2019...and still doesn't work!!!
I have been lurking on this form for a while, and I have experienced all the same things with Spotify playlists seeming to stick to the same bunch of songs, and songs repeating too often. I've recently found a semi-solution though, and I would like to verify if it works for everyone. When I navigate through Android Auto in my car to Spotify, select Library then select songs and play that way, it seems I actually do get a brand new list of songs every time, with deep tracks from my library. If I select the shuffle and repeat icons from the Spotify Android Auto interface, it appears I'm good to go with a brand new shuffled Spotify playlist.
Seems to work for me, and would love to hear if others experience the same. You can just load Android Auto on your phone, you don't have to use it from your car dash. Let me know if I'm full of it or not.
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