[All Platforms][Other] Button on play queue to shuffle current selections

[zardox]

Currently, in the panel "Playing from play queue" below "Now playing," if there are any selections queued, there is a listing titled "Next in Queue" with one option "Clear Queue".

My request - 

Add an additional button labeled "Shuffle", have it appear only if there is more than one selection in the queue. Pressing this "shuffle" button does a random sort of the selections currently in the queue.

Note : selections below in the "Next from" section are not included, no change is made to their order.

I need this because I routinely make a selection of singles and albums from several artists but I want then to shuffle the selections. This is kind of like building a playlist on the fly.

1. An alternate idea would be to have a button that transfers selections in the queue to a playlist. But that is less preferable because I don't want a new playlist to be added

[1241056665]

Typically when I add songs to my queue, I don't necessarily want them in the order that I added them to my queue. It would be cool to be able to shuffle what I've added to the queue so I don't know what's coming next.

[retronami]

Agreed. This issue was exactly why I came to this forum. It seems like a very basic music player feature. 

[burtron9000]

How many votes does this idea need for it to happen? Please add a shuffle queue option. Please please please. I don't want to have to make a playlist I'm only going to use once. 

[the-messenger]

This is needed.   If you could shuffle a queue, it would provide the same experience as shuffling a playlist but also shuffling multiple playlists.     It's a negative for me to add multiple playlists to a queue and not be able to shuffle them.  I forget that I can't do this and then have to go and remove everything from the queue and play a playlist, one playlist, so I can shuffle.  Basically, without the ability to shuffle, I don't want to be able to add a playlist to the queue.

[Kawaily]

I have been thinking about this for a long time so I'm glad someone suggested it. I often add several playlists/albums to my queue and I have to shuffle manually which is annoying, takes a long time and is not really randomized.

[pablolie]

Can I superlike this? I'd even pay $100 to support this enhancement to playlist shuffling, which is oddly dysfunctional.

[Stbyle20]

You should be able to shuffle the songs that you have put in your queue. I often queue a bunch of songs from artists, but then have to manually mix them all together by dragging the songs around in the queue. 

[Luan]

Updated on 2023-02-03

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[Yordan]

Updated on 2023-03-21

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[Luan]

Updated on 2023-03-31

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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