[Music] Shuffle by Album

[glassFractals]

Simple enough concept:  Shuffle by albums instead of by tracks, for those of us who prefer full-album listening.

Should function at least within playlists and the play queue.  Perhaps it could also work in radio mode.

[kalvinkleenex]

Not just on the desktop apps, but also on the mobile apps.

[Lea]

I think I wrote the same things a while ago, because I couldn't find anything on it, but please Spotify! Just make this happen!

[zcallen1]

Yeah this is really kind of absurd it's not implemented yet.

[NotMitchelBade]

I would love this! Many other music players do this. I often listen to music while I work (desk work, involving lots of nitty-gritty algebra), and I like to listen to less-catchy music while I work- generally stuff that's more ambient, has a fairly steady beat, and albums where the songs blend together well. I have a playlist of albums like this, but I have to rearrange them every day so that it's not the same order. Shuffling by song would be far too distracting; I might as well listen to more disconnected albums at that point. Please let this happen!

[danielryan]

Thanks for suggesting this idea.  I've been trying to manage a way to do something like this in Spotify for quite a while now.  It would especially come in handy for listening to classical music, along with the gapless playback feature they added.

It's pretty much the only way I listen to music in iTunes or on my iPod.

[dpollmaecher]

This is the feature I miss the most after switching to spotify. 

[knowr]

I can't fully switch to Spotify until this feature is added.

[osuhdfoiuw89325]

Is this not solved yet? Spotify C'mon we need you to listen! We need to double-click on an album to start album shuffle instead of selecting a track!!! Tweet, post it on their wall & share. 

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[dawnclover]

This is essential, how is this not implemented yet? I add tons of new albums to my queue, but I hate being stuck with following the order they were added in, or having to move albums around, a simple album shuffle button would make this a much better experience, not mentioning it's something practically every music playing device or software has.

I hope this is built into an update soon.