Inconsistency mobile/desktop app: Shuffle vs. Play button

[e_ijk]

Plan

Premium Family

Country

Germany

Device

Sony Xperia X / Linux Laptop

Operating System

Android Oreo / openSUSE Linux 42.3

My Question or Issue

Hi!

I don't understand the rationale why the Android app most of the time shows a big green "Shuffle" play button atop every track list (even for albums which you (I) usually play in order) and the Desktop app usually instead shows a big green "Play" button that plays the list in order.

To me, it would make a lot more sense to make this a user preference and show the same button on Android and desktop apps. I personally tend to play albums and playlists in order. If I want shuffle, I can always enable that.

Or, if a user preference is too complicated to implement, just show both buttons side by side in both Android and desktop apps. It just feels very awkward to click the first track instead of the big green "Shuffle" button in the Android app in order to get ordered playback.

Regards,

e_ijk