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I had a few issues with Spotify doing this. I even saw a post where an engineer claimed it was all psychological, but I was definitely getting repeats when I ha
by nathan_f77 9y ago
I had a few issues with Spotify doing this. I even saw a post where an engineer claimed it was all psychological, but I was definitely getting repeats when I had queued up a large amount of music (e.g. over 40 hours.) I think they only shuffle a certain percentage of the playlist and forget which songs have already been played after a while.
I manually shuffle some playlists now. One nice thing about the desktop client is the clipboard integration. You can press cmd+a to highlight all the songs, cmd+c to copy, and then paste all the song URLs into a text editor. Then I used "permute lines" in Sublime Text to shuffle them, then cmd+c and cmd+v to paste the songs back into Spotify.
- mickronome 9y agoI probably have some details wrong, but according to Spotify's customer feedback site, there at least used to be a couple of issues with their shuffle. One, if I remember somewhat correctly, was that if the player was stopped/shutdown, it forgot the shuffle seed. This would essentially lead to a reshuffle, which would cause duplicate songs for songs played before the unintended reseeding.
- nathan_f77 9y agoOh ok, yeah that seems to line up with what I experienced. I think it was after closing my laptop, or switching between different devices. I might have to try it again.
- oe 9y agoOn mobile Spotify seems to heavily favor songs it has cached which results in the same songs being played every time a random playlist is started.