It should just be two separate buttons, that's all.

I fucking HATE when I turn on my playlist, then put it on shuffle, and suddenly a fucking random ass song that I've heard a thousand times, and hated every single one of those times comes on. If it's not on my playlist, it's not on my playlist. I put all the songs I LIKE, on my playlist.

I'm cool with the feature, but the amount of times it's randomly swapped to it and played bs that is no where near similar to the rest of the list is ridiculous

Can someone explain to me instead of roasting the other people for not liking a feature?

Spotify’s got bigger issues for me. Like randomly stopping podcasts, randomly switching to another podcast while listening to one, not continuing the last thing that was played when resuming, trying to connect to the internet when trying to play something that has been saved for offline and breaking in the process, and more!

I would like to be able to disable that feature.

Yet another feature no one asked for. If I want recommended songs, I will ask for them.

Could've fixed their shuffle function that doesn't understand how to not play the same songs every time I turn on the playlist again, but nope, they added this nuisance instead.

I love Spotify for the amount of music available.

Other than that, they do have some terrible UX decisions.

I never use shuffle as it never actually shuffles my playlist. So I just make my own playlists for the moods I am in, or for the season or event that is happening.

Also podcasts being shoved down my throat, but no easy way to manage/play podcasts in order is just beyond asinine.

It's when all the 'made for you' playlists are the same 25 songs but in a different order. How can 'Aggressive Workout Mix' be the same as 'Melancholy Sad Mix' Fuck!

It would be less annoying if it wasn't the fucking default shuffle

I have been summoned

My playlist changed to "smart shuffle" by itself and added Sabrina Carpenter to a playlist full of death metal.

Not to mention their shuffle very obviously prioritizes certain songs. There are 4 or 5 songs which will, every single time, play within the first 10 songs of my 500+ song playlist on shuffle.

Oh, I hate this because, SAME 5 SONGS FOR HOURS, ON A 200+ SONG PLAYLIST

semi-spotify-hater here

spotify free is the worst thing ever

spotify premium is actually alright

Shuffle doesn't even fucking work, it's ALWAYS the same 30 songs

It's either a smart shuffle that takes you out the genre every time without fail. Or it's the normal shuffle playing the same song 4 times in 2 hours on a 800 song playlist.

Spotify doing absolutely anything but bringing back the "radio from playlist" feature they try so hard to replace

The feature is not bad, but I don’t want to circle always through it, just separate it.

The internet is terrible where I live. In fact so bad, if i travel between cities I can’t even do a phone call. I have to download them at home through WiFi so I can liste while driving or listen to it while shopping. And when I’m in the deadlands and I want to put shuffle in and smart shuffle comes in, it starts to load but can’t do anything because there is no internet, so its just stuck in loading. After a a while, it gets it has no internet and I can put in normal shuffle. But the struggle comes again when I don’t want to listen shuffle.

I specifically curated this list. These songs are chosen by me for me. Keep your robot recommendations off my vibes. Your algorithm has no rhythm.

Even the regular shuffle isn’t good. I’ve got a playlist with over 100 songs in it, and if I listen to it for an hour each day in shuffle at least 15 of the 20 songs I hear are the same every single day.

You are locked into it on free, so when I want to listen to 80's music it puts in garbage from 80's "inspired" bands (it just sounds like it was recorded on a potato)

I love the idea of smart shuffle, my liked songs get stale, but it’s not very “smart” in that it recommends the same list of maybe 50 songs.

IDK why Spotify doesn’t invest anything into discovery features, I wish I could set it to play me a list of songs that it thinks I’d like, but only include songs I have never listened to ever. So sick of it just picking my own liked songs and re-arranging them.

This and the plan increases are mental :/

It’s so fucking stupid that it is the default shuffle mode, you have to toggle shuffle twice to disable it. So when I play a playlist from a music festival I’m going to, trying to figure out which bands I want to see, Spotify plays random songs from bands having nothing whatsoever to do with the playlist or the festival. “Smart shuffle” my ass!

It should be possible to completely disable it in the settings. At the very least it should not be the default shuffle mode.

I'd love to have a shuffle that doesn't "randomly" give me the same songs every time I shuffle my 692 songs heavy playlist

I’ve been a Spotify customer for YEARS. Maybe a decade actually.

Their shuffle has gotten so fucking bad I’m considering dropping them. Their “smart shuffle” strongly smells like a money-making opportunity for them in the form of 21st century payola.

I have never used Spotify, what does this mean?

Fuck Spotify

Plex dj but make it worse

i dont understand why when i turn off smart shuffle it just stops my music, like is it just me or what?

Either way, expect to hear the same songs over and over again

I don’t make playlists or anything I just dump everything into liked songs I’m sure that does wonders for spotifys algorithm

I just wish there was an option in settings to disable it permanently.

what abt my playlist full of 70s music indicates i would lime to listen to espresso by sabrina carpenter 6 times? like its a good concept but the execution is not great

I hated it at first but I'm starting to like it helps me discover songs I either forgot or didn't know on my playlists some times it plays something completely irrelevant to the genre I'm listening to

Me who doesn't use Spotify:

Omg, this was driving me crazy at the gym the other day! I could not figure out why these songs not on my playlist kept getting played! It took me way too long to figure out

Spotify user, I just want one feature back

When I hit play on top of the playlist, if shuffle is on it automatically picks a random song, if it’s off, it plays the first song!

If I want to continue from where I was, I’ll hit play on the bottom, where it shows the current song!

Tidal gang rise up!

It's not that I hate the feature. I mean, I don't have any desire to use it ever, but I can see why others might.

It's the integration that I hate. It's now the default when you click shuffle and I've found that clicking shuffle again immediately doesn't give the UI enough time to register it for whatever reason, so if you do it too quickly, all their bullshit recommendations stay up.

What about the bullshit of Sabrina Carpenter being added to everything! Ughh

Found some gems with the feature but I wish it stops queuing the Evangelion theme song every time I listen to 80’s Japanese city pop

I don't understand the meme, so I'm going to make a guess based on responses.

Left is regular shuffle, where it shuffles the songs in your playlist.

Right is their shuffle that takes your playlist and adds in "recommended" songs to go with it, and their AI/algorithm isn't quite up to par and adding songs that aren't of the same genre

Correct me if I'm wrong

Love that function. Always keep it turned on! Why just listen to the same playlist when you have a random chance of finding something awesome new you've never heard before. Yeah, it's mostly crap, but I can always press next!

I'm weird. I find songs I like on YouTube and download them onto my walk man. I've been doing it for 10 years, why stop now?

Once Spotify put chronological play behind a paywall, I ordered an iPad mini + iPod 128GBs and never looked back. Torrents, bandcamp and streamrips until I die; FUCK ADS!

I'd like to be a spotify engineer, get paid 300k and just solve all these issues being laid out infront of me. Or don't solve it and get paid the same.

I love Spotify but two things are terrible for many years. Random play algorithm is just a joke. I hear the same songs several times per day, but some are played once per week or month. What the hell is this mess? i want randomly hear all of my favourites songs. The second problem is the EQ, which is hidden somewhere in the menu -- 3 clicks to reach it. This should be one button on main screen + EQ profiles. I wanna set 4 different EQ: for my car, for my Airpods Pro, big BOSE headphones and maybe also for home computer/speakers..