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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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By sheer coincidence, Meredith posted an update on shuffle today.
Yes I have read about these improvements to shuffle play in the past. The problem is I just used shuffle play in the last 24 hours and it is still awful
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Yeah, pretty sure they're not yet.
oh ok thanks
yes, same here. please get a new algorithm for it as soon as possible.
It seems that whenever I shuffle a playlist, the shuffler's logic tends to pick some specific songs, and they always come up for play as a 'priority' compared to other songs.
(this differs from the complaint that some people have, that they get the same songs twice on a single 'shuffle my playlist' run. As long as I don't press 'shuffle' again, I won't hear the same song. But the shuffle logic will always choose a few specific songs and throw them in my face very early in the shuffle run, which is very annoying).
It's almost unbelievable to me that such a simple process is broken.
The only remaining explanation I can give is that Spotify deliberately chooses the songs that are cheaper for them to pay royalties on.
Whatever the reason is, I hope Spotify cleans up its act.. millions of customers paying for a broken product that would take me 2 afternoons to fix, and I am an accountant whose greatest programming achievement was inputting cheat codes on my super nintendo - a, down, b, down, down, y a.
I have more than 1100 songs on my main list, a large part of them I havn´t heard since I added them.
It´s tiresome and irritating to keep hearing the some few somgs over and over.
same here
also the same ORDER
say i've song 1,2,3,4,5,6,7, 8, 9,10
first of all i mostly hear these: 2,1, 5,4, 3 and always in that EXACT same order
so thats shuffle at it's WORST
so the "at random" function cleary doesn't work, or is replaced by a second agenda of money making due to royalties
I'm a premium user and shuffle on pc and android is horrendous. This actually makes me question keep premium. I'm a bit tired of hearing the same songs in a 500 song playlist. The purpose of having such a large playlist is not to wear any songs out.
Yeah it's pretty noticible. The app should regenerate a randomized playlist each time the app is restarted, or each time the user toggles the 'shuffle' feature on/off. The frikkin thing ought to use a random seed.
This is still an issue (for me at least, as it's the one feature I use daily and still doesn't work at all), so today I have cancelled my Spotify subscription and have moved to Google Play Music All Access. Goodbye Spotify.
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