"Shuffle" does not shuffle entire playlist, only plays 50 or so songs over and over.

[northnodes]

This seems to be a similar problem as here:

http://community.spotify.com/t5/Desktop-Windows/Shuffle-repeats-songs-too-often/td-p/22413

But, I wanted to post it here as it's happening in iOS and not just on the Desktop client.

I have a playlist with 300+ songs, but when I listen to it on shuffle, I only hear about 50 songs shuffled over and over.  This is a major problem for how I listen to music and why I got Spotify.  

Is anyone else having this issue?  I may have to drop Premium if this continues.

[jimmut]

I thought it was just me...I agree I have a 500 song playlist and I can hear the same song more than once on my drive to work...and it does seem its like the same songs alot...I think I will just have to leave shuffle off since it doesn't seem to really work..Seems like it would be such a easy thing to program...don't repeat any songs in a single lsitening period and if it was truely random you would hardly ever hear the same song more than once in a long time with a big playlist. Come on Spotify...You can do better with all our money we all are paying you!!!!

[clapau06]

I have the same problem. Has anyone found a solution??

[northnodes]

My solution was to stop paying for Spotify and just go back to downloading music.  Shuffle works like a charm now!!!

[dragon2611]

I've had to do a number of lengthy drives recently and have come across this to, it's really irrirating.

It should be more randomised and use the entire playlist

A good starting point for a random seed would the the current time of day and maybe even the approximate location of the device.