[Mobile] [Other] Smart Shuffle toggle setting in settings menu

[LiamTems]

Smart shuffle is a fun way to discover new songs, but it comes at a cost. Want to reshuffle your queue? Bam, wait a few seconds longer. Want to unshuffle your playlist? Bam, no longer works, and goes to a completely random place in the playlist.

To me this is an unwanted complication, and I'd much rather be able to choose in the settings menu whether I want to enable the Smart Shuffle feature, or disable it.

[Chip88]

I hate this smart shuffle. I often listen to Spotify on airplane and whenever this “smart” shuffle stupidly activated, spotify wont allow me to play anything on that playlist. Hate, hate, hate this function

[stodd14]

Seconded!!! (After the 50 other people who liked this topic...) 

Smart shuffle is an interesting idea but having it come on with every second press of the shuffle button is driving me insane. 

[RobNL]

I really hate smart shuffle, i want enhanche back.

[chicks2022]

Just make it a kebab menu style, not a cycling button. The feature is a good feature, I think the team did a great job with the feature, just implement it slightly differently and it will be fantastic

[JPMLucero]

This option would be so great as this feature is messing with my app and makes it difficult for me to set the app to offline mode. I like having my shuffle toggle button just be for the normal shuffle for easy disabling/enabling quickly. Why can't they just add a separate toggle button, only for the smart shuffle. So frustrating that you have to wait a little bit just for the smart shuffle to be disabled.

[malus_01]

I agree, the current process of pressing the shuffle icon to cycle through shuffle enable > smart shuffle > shuffle disabled is problematic. If you just want to disable shuffle, then you will first hit Smart Shuffle (love this feature by the way). This can be problematic if you are in an area where mobile service is spotty. You will end up using data and waiting for Smart Shuffle to finish loading before being able to disable shuffle altogether.

My suggestion is to allow long pressing the shuffle icon which brings up a context menu allowing user to select Shuffle or Smart Shuffle (Image attached for concept). And a quick press of shuffle icon again simply disables either Shuffle/Smart Shuffle.

[Luan]

Updated on 2023-05-01

Hey! It looks like your suggestion is growing up fast and it's amazing! We are going to change its status to 'Good Suggestion' now and we hope it continues being supported by more and more users.
Thanks again for your suggestion. We really appreciate it 🙂

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[_georgemccombe]

Smart shuffle is so aggravating please give us a way to turn it off permanently from settings and stop telling people to tap shuffle again. God

[RD1010]

Spotify please listen to this, Im so tired of having to hit the shuffle button twice and it always takes 5-10 seconds to turn off smart shuffle. Its very inconvenient. please add a place where i can disable smart shuffle fully! A TON of others are feeling this exact same way

[AndyMac3]

So annoying, please remove. Seriously considering moving to Amazon music