Shuffle Entirety of Spotify

[chrispix_]

Is it possible in any way to completely randomise the entire Spotify catalogue with no interference from algorithms at all? Or to randomly return a single song on request?

I have been thinking lately about what curiosities live deep in the <100 listeners world of Spotify, and how we might defy the algorithms to find the truly weird or surprising (and possibly quite bad, but maybe so bad it's good, or maybe even actually good).

I'm wondering if one possibility is just to hammer in a made-up URL in the "...spotify.com/track/ABC123..." format... but what would be the parameters of the alphanumeric string to make this work?

Plan

Premium

Country

Australia

[Dian]

Hey @chrispix_,

Thanks for posting in the Community.

Currently there is no built in option to do as described, but there is a similar idea proposal you can vote on. Here is a link.

On another note, I have also been thinking about how to make this happen with the tools we already have ad our disposal.

The starting point would be the everynoise.com site. There you will find a mapped collection of the songs on Spotify (I don't know if this includes all the tracks). Opening the list view will list categories numerically, where you can get random numbers from. Few levels into the list numbers a playlist will appear and you can extract it's URI to shuffle through or play one song and then start looking for a different playlist.

This can easily be automated with a general purpose programming language of any kind.

If such activities are interesting to you, you can check out this site: https://developer.spotify.com/

On another another note, I wouldn't jam random hash codes into the URL to try and find a song with them, as it's gonna become a trial and error kind of thing to get an actual song from the catalogue.

Hope this helps,

Cheers!

[chrispix_]

Hi Dian,

Sorry for taking such a long time to reply. Thank you, this is all very interesting! I'll follow up these ideas!

Chris