Suggestion for a "True Shuffle" Feature on Spotify
Dear Spotify Team,
I have been using your app for a long time and have been a Premium subscriber for several years. However, there is one issue that keeps occurring over and over again—the way Spotify shuffles playlists.
The word "shuffle" means to mix things up, but on Spotify, it seems like this meaning has taken a different turn. I have a playlist that is 83 hours long with over 1,000 songs, yet for some reason, Spotify keeps throwing the same songs at me repeatedly, and it’s becoming really frustrating.
I’ve also noticed that if I listen to a specific song for a week, Spotify keeps pushing that same song in my playlists just because I liked it for a while. But at some point, I don’t want to hear it anymore. Users expect the shuffle function to actually shuffle songs. I don’t use this feature to listen to my most-played songs or the ones Spotify thinks I still want on repeat.
I understand that Spotify uses algorithms to determine what songs to play, but I believe it’s time to give users the option for a “True Shuffle”—a shuffle that is not based on:
- Most played songs
- Most played artists
- Spotify’s personalization algorithms
Instead, a shuffle that is purely random. This is not a difficult feature to program, and I don’t see what Spotify would lose by implementing it.
Before anyone suggests that I take steps to achieve a more random shuffle myself—trust me, I have. I have spent hours talking to customer service and browsing different websites, searching for settings that would give me a true shuffle, all without success.
Today, I’m writing this in the hope that we can get a feature for users who want to listen to their long playlists without being interrupted by the same 10 songs, for those of us who enjoy exploring our full playlist, and for those who simply want a real shuffle.
It’s a simple request, and I genuinely believe it would be a small but impactful change to give back to the users who spend so much money on your app every month. This would require minimal effort from Spotify but provide maximum value to users like me. And I can assure you—there are plenty of users with this exact same issue. Just check Reddit, memes, Twitter (X), and more, and you’ll see how many people are frustrated by this problem.
Please consider adding this feature. It would make a significant difference for many of us.
Best regards,
Parmida -A Concerned Spotify User