I was nerd-sniped by shuffling playlists a while back too and came up with this algorithm: https://ruudvanasseldonk.com/2023/an-algorithm-for-shuffling-playlist

I was nerd-sniped by shuffling playlists a while back too and came up with this algorithm: https://ruudvanasseldonk.com/2023/an-algorithm-for-shuffling-playlists https://ruudvanasseldonk.com/2023/an-algorithm-for-shuffling.... I've been using it since, my experience at this point is that the interleaving — although it does an optimal job of not playing the same artist twice in a row — is maybe a bit too non-random.