Smart shuffle bug

[Aikewoody]

Plan

Premium

Country

Europe

Device

iPhone 13 mini

Operating System

iOS 16.3.1

My Question or Issue

Smart shuffle messes up the order of the playlist of Liked Songs even after being turned off. The following behaviour explains this:

- play the playlist of Liked Songs on normal shuffle

- say that it randomly plays the 123th song in this list

- now I want to turn off shuffle BUT the button has this weird counterintuitive behaviour that it toggles to smart shuffle first and only then can you toggle shuffle off completely 

- when the 123th song finishes (shuffle is off right now) not the 124th song is played but a random other song

- this is either a bug or in my option not expected behaviour by the app 

[MihailY]

Hey @Aikewoody ,

Thanks for reaching out.

We've tested this on our end, however, we couldn't reproduce the behavior you're describing. Would it be possible to send us a short screen recording and check if this happens on another device using the same account?

Looking forward to your reply.

[Aikewoody]

Hey @MihailY,

Thanks for the fast reply!

The screen recording was more than 5MB so it couldn't be uploaded on this forum, that's why it's uploaded to youtube: https://youtu.be/fpo2fzbs3yM

The bug seems to only happen when the song is fully played without being skipped, that's why the recording is almost 4 minutes long.

Following the recording the steps to reproduce are:

1. play the "Liked Songs" playlist
2. enable shuffle
3. click on the "next song" button
4. click on the "shuffle" button, smart shuffle is enabled
5. click on the "shuffle" button, shuffle is disabled completely
6. wait until the song is finished and the app goes to the next song
7. observe that the next song that's played isn't the correct one

- in the recording you can see that the song that is played is: That's Me from ABBA

- in the playlist the previous song of that one is: Me And I from ABBA

- while the song that was playing before this was: Sexy **bleep** from David Guetta, Akon

- shuffle was completely off so this should not happen

ps: I have tested this on an iPad Pro (12.9-inch) (3rd generation) running on iPadOS 16.2

[Lyubka]

Hey @Aikewoody,

Thanks for getting back to us and providing the screen recording.

We appreciate you taking the time to report this and share your feedback with us.

The Smart shuffle as a feature is still new and we're working on finetuning it and this report will help with us. We'll make sure to pass the info onto the right team and we'll work on improving it's functionality, as Spotify constantly strives to refine the user experience.
 

However, we can't promise that this specific issue will be addressed. In the meantime, we advise that you keep your Spotify up to date with the latest version so that you don't miss out on any fixes.

Cheers! 

[Elia31]

Hey, I've got the same issue. It's really annoying. Heres a screen recording https://imgur.io/a/ThLWFvL

Please fix this