Spotify Playlist Shuffle

Discussions focus on complaints about Spotify's shuffle algorithm playing the same songs repeatedly, poor playlist management, lack of album/genre views, and suggestions for features like multiple playback queues and better organization.

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vim-guru β€’ Nov 21, 2023 β€’ View on HN

I prefer randomizing lists but not songs. Spotify's user experience could be better in this regard tbh.

hokkos β€’ May 4, 2011 β€’ View on HN

Playlists are horrible, Spotify still lack a Genre > Artist > Album view.

grujicd β€’ Feb 5, 2024 β€’ View on HN

What I'm missing is multiple "currently playing" lists, each keeping its current position as I switch to play a different one. Use case: listening to a discography of the band, and if I wish to listen few songs from some other band. I can't go back to where I was with the first band. Foobar had multiple ad-hoc lists since forever. Now I balance between Spotify and Youtube music in these cases.

drkmtr999 β€’ Jan 21, 2013 β€’ View on HN

He's not talking about playing a playlist. Usually, users create and manage playlists. Are you familiar?

mhink β€’ Sep 20, 2022 β€’ View on HN

This kinda sounds like a use case for a playlist to me.

lozenge β€’ Dec 28, 2021 β€’ View on HN

Spotify: not shuffling your playlists for 10 years.

jetcata β€’ Oct 14, 2018 β€’ View on HN

Why not make a playlist? Seems more durable

deeblering4 β€’ Nov 21, 2021 β€’ View on HN

Shuffle on Spotify doesn't act right either. If I shuffle my liked songs it will play roughly the same few songs every time, like they shuffled it once and cached that playlist. It’s a terrible shuffle implementation.

lurkinggrue β€’ Apr 29, 2013 β€’ View on HN

Same here. It does playlists well and that's all I need.

danielheath β€’ Nov 9, 2021 β€’ View on HN

Spotify regularly remove songs from playlists I have made after they lose the rights.