Shuffle play repeating songs too often

[ws1482]

I have a 290 song playlist that I just recently totally randomized because I was having the same problem of songs repeating too often. Then today in a span of about 25 songs, I heard the same song play twice. A song should not repeat until every song in the playlist has played at least once. Shuffle play is still repeating songs too often. Can we get this fixed?

P.S.. I'm using the latest version of the mobile app on an iPhone 4

[rlsundberg]

There shouldn't be any odds of repeating. I'd an online poker game can handle not shuffling the deck after every deal, then they should be able to fix this

[rlsundberg]

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[uAlrdyKnoWaItIz]

complex programming problem lol

no its not, its prolly the simplest problem ....think for instance shuffling cards before we play a game....yea there are overlaps, but not to the extent spotify repeats itself.....

I am a premium user and must admit, the last few months, i am questioning whether its worth extending...quality issues and this suffle is annoying as hell....

if you are from spotify and u are seriously struggling coding...then here is a hint.......set random number generation based on the count of songs in the playlist, create a couple of variables, so you can loop through and check if the number has been assigned to that song previous 3-4 times....

[audiophile_geek]

I agree. This is a simple problem to fix. In my first C++ programming class one my the assignments was to create a shuffle agorithm. Guess what? It worked a whole lot better than this crap! I am very tired of the bugs Spotify. Get on your game!

[Nelson_rich]

Peter. Did they really expect anybody to read all of that? I don't think anyone is really interested in randomness. What everyone is saying is when they hit the shuffle button they want to hear every song on their playlist before one of them repeats. Unless they close or switch off the app, of course. Maybe its not possible to code something like that. I'm no expert...

[Duckdammit]

I have premium and suffle still repetes the same tunes

[jhon]

There is a database of your song lists,

when you use shuffle, they get the songs on that list and play on random order,

just add a new column with the name "times played" or simple "played" with type number/integer,

and everytime the song start increase by 1, now on your code just make it order/select and give priority to the ones with low numbers.

It is that simple

[jopincar]

It doesn't even have to be that complicated.  Just generated random number between 1 and the number of songs in the playlist and play the song.  The number of repeats that Spotify has is ridiculous.  They aren't using a good RNG or their selection algorithm is broken.  Either way, little kids that program after school could fix this in their sleep.  And it would be dead simple to test this and see how horribly broken it is.

[KyleK29]

Agreed.

I don't think they care or there's some monetary thing involved. Maybe if a song is replayed within a certain time period they don't have to pay the royalty on that play? 

Truthfully, it's not so much a randomization issue as it is a "Repeat" issue. The repeat button, even when switched to "no repeats" does not function as designed (or it functions exactly as designed which would indicate some monetary reason for doing it). It should not repeat a song until the application is closed or the user navigates to another playlist - this is common functionality going back a decade of MP3 playing software.

I'm considering digging it to the user stream API and possible setting my computer to just run a playlist, that would allow me to tabulate the data on how each song is utilized in a "random on, no repeat" list. Mentally, I feel a lot of songs go underplayed while others get hit a lot.

[airpilikia]

Still doing it. Just became a premium member. Looks like I might have go elsewhere. You can't even oganize or delete duplicates without driving yourself crazy!

[hanaudrey]

I have PREMIUM and have the same Shuffle problem.

Please fix it Spotify team !!!! 

[Verilee]

I am on a trial-to-premium account for the next 3 weeks or so. I only use Spotify to shuffle songs while I walk; my playlist has 50 songs on it and in 30 minutes time I hear 2 songs twice.

This is unacceptable. If I don't discover or am provided a solution, I will prevent the trial from becoming an actual premium account.

3 weeks.

[Verilee]

I forgot to mention that all the songs are offline.

[fkstupid]

It's crazy. I am a premium member and I have nearing two thousand songs on my list. I hear only a small section of it over and over and it's driving me to insanity. Just today one of the songs that was played at my father's funeral was played 4 times! This thread is years old why is there no fix!

[zardox]

I have Spotify and pay for a premium subscription. I too feel that this is a major drawback to Spotify. That, is, if you have a selection of songs set to "shuffle" it does a random selection each time the next song is queued. That does not ensure that all songs are played. What should happen is either:

1) Repeat is not selected, shuffle is also:

The entire playlist (or album) is queued and placed into random order. Each song is played at least one time (in a random order). Then, Spotify is to stop playing (unless more has been queued).

2) Repeat is  selected, shuffle is also:

The entire playlist (or album) is queued and placed into random order. Each song is played at least one time (in a random order). Then the set of songs is queued again in random order. When completed for the second go around, then  the set of songs is once again queued in random order , and so ...

If your player is offline and a song is not available, it just does not get added to the queue at all.

[Duckdammit]

Spotify is aware of this problem for years and has yet to fix it

[Vonny5761]

Me too I have family premium with 6 accounts!!!! It's getting me I think I'm going to cancel if it's not sorted soon

[TwistyMcNuts]

My solution is to sort my playlist by Title and then turn shuffle off.  Works pretty well on a large playlist.