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

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

Updated on 2025-03-03

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Comments
bradavon

It would be useful if the shuffle button would also changed the order of queued songs too.

I like to randomly add songs/albums to a playlist of songs I want to hear now but it's annoying shuffle is ignored when you add songs in this manner and having to create a playlist just to shuffel negates the point of a queue system.

modo_slapshot

I too miss the possibility to play streaming music in shuffle mode from queue. Please fix!

tchen79

Agree with Scott!  Queue == Playlist.

The play queue should not be treated any differently than a temporary playlist.  Random feature should work ALL of the time. Same goes for repeat.

Marco
Status changed to: Up for Votes
 

So this idea was sugest more than a year ago, and i'm still wondering why random/shuffle does not work with queue already. 😕

gabrielvdk

+1

nikobe

Boggles why this doesn't work, why would shuffle be a dead button while playing the queue

petergibbons

+1 This should be a standard feature. 

matijnweren

Really miss this too.

vanMartijn

+1 please

 

This can't be that hard to integrate