when i play my playlist it plays random songs

[riannaqqqq]

when i woke up i played music on my alexa and i was confused because when i controlled the music directly through the spotify app it would play songs not even in my playlist but say im playing my playlist but now that im not connected to my alexa it keeps playing random songs i’ve never heard of before between a few songs. i asked my friends and it’s doing the same for them too.

Plan

premium

Country

england 

Device

iphone se 2020

Operating System

ios 16

My Question or Issue

[riannaqqqq]

Sorry I should have updated this. Figured out what was going on for me although not sure it’ll help everyone.

This was occurring where I played a playlist via an Alexa device. It turned out that Amazon, in their infinite wisdom, had added a new Autoplay feature and defaulted it to on. To turn off you need to go More> Music and More> Settings>Autoplay from the Alexa app. Hope it’s ok to have instructions for Alexa on here as this solved the issue for me.

[Proctone]

Sorry I should have updated this. Figured out what was going on for me although not sure it’ll help everyone.

This was occurring where I played a playlist via an Alexa device. It turned out that Amazon, in their infinite wisdom, had added a new Autoplay feature and defaulted it to on. To turn off you need to go More> Music and More> Settings>Autoplay from the Alexa app. Hope it’s ok to have instructions for Alexa on here as this solved the issue for me.

[Calebb1]

I had this same issues. All of the above steps failed. What worked for me was to delete the app off my phone and redownload. It only affected my phone. 

[Trentw96]

delete app and redownload 

[thebsquared01]

I realised I\d accidentally added songs to my queue and it was insisting those songs are listened to, even though I had changed playlists. It hasn't done this before, usually it cleared the queue immediately when switching playlists. I wish this was more obvious, because it's been a frustrating couple of weeks. Especially the I hit the add to queue by accident. 

[jb21inCA]

I have tried all the above and can't seem to find a remedy. Has anything been resolved through Spotify?

[Lagerkos]

Disclaimer: This has nothing whatsoever to do with smart shuffle.

• Hello, two random songs were added to my playlist without me doing anything. I havent ever even heard these songs and they were on my playlist. One song was from Bruno Mars and Lady Gaga and the other was from Eminem, I dont listen to Lady Gaga or Bruno Mars, so its totally unexpected that the song would be there, however I listen to Eminem, so I may have added it and forgot, but it was garbage in my opinion and it seriously feels like I never even heard it before. Any opinions or experiences would be greatly appreciated. Thank you.

[Lagerkos]

Another song has just appeared on my playlist. Its by Joey **bleep** and I do listen to him and have him on my playlist, but I never added this specific song to my playlist. What is going on?!

[Dom29]

the same thing is happening to me. It is so confusing but I think downloading the playlist fixes it. Annoying fix but a fix nonetheless.

[Vini_itj]

It's ridiculous how Spotify tries to force people to subscribe to its premium plans. You try to turn off the shuffling thing and it's only possible for premium users, which means you don't get to listen to what you want unless you pay for a premium subscription. If you're a free user, you have to listen to whatever song they think you should listen to, even though it's in none of your playlists. I'll say it again: It's RIDICULOUS!

[New user]

I am a spotify premium user and when i click on an album, the album is showed not in order and random songs from the artists discography are showed. Its really annoying when you're trying to listen to the album in order. I was wondering can you somehow change this.

[New user]

I have premium.

Basically ANY TIME a song ends (whether it ends naturally or I skip it with the skip button or I skip it with a swipe) NO MATTER WHAT it will play a random song that's not in the playlist I'm listening to. it does this in my "liked" songs too. Any time I skip/a song ends, spotify just pulls a song from out of nowhere that I've never heard before. The other day I skipped over 20 times before I finally got to another song I had even HEARD before.

Happens in my liked songs AND in playlists with shuffle on OR off.

Additionally, when I go to my "liked songs" and hit the play button at the top, it will start playing a song from outside my likes. Automix is off.

[SubuBeATs]

Found a fix.

This happened to me. One random my Spotify would suddenly play random songs irrespective of which playlist I would select or add to queue. It wouldn't play the songs added to queue as well unless I manually clicked on a song. 

The Fix: Simple. I updated Spotify app. It still was acting the same

Secondly, I installed the app and reinstalled completely with all my offline downloaded music getting deleted. And viola,  it was back to normal. 

[Nikberg555]

I am having same problem and it just started right after the latest IOS upgrade.  I am a Premium member, shuffle is greyed out, Autoay is toggled off.  Please help as I curate playlists for my pilates and yoga classes and this is an issue as I cannot use my playlists now because it keeps playing random songs and not even songs of genres I listen to.

[gormtheold]

I have tried everything mentioned here and other places on the internet I am going to start looking at a different music service as this is super irritating. And clearly, I am not the only person who doesn't like getting their play list filled with random music they didn't choose. When I am in the mood for random stuff, I don't choose my playlist I choose a Spotify Playlist.