https://cdn4.iconfinder.com/data/icons/defaulticon/icons/png/256x256/media-shuffle.png

otherwise idk, it probably only auto suggests a certain range of songs

spotify works in a queue system so once one song is played it goes to the end of the queue, sounds like you're just getting unlucky

So there's no real way I can fix this unless I manually add shit to a queue?

I have 1,200 songs in my spotify library and i don't get this problem at all.

could try using the web player to see what happens?

Yeah I use the web player maybe should I be using the app one?

The Spotify shuffle algorithm is awful. I've had the exact same issue on the app and web player. My playlists usually consist of about 100 songs and I would hear about 30 of them more than I'd hear the rest of the songs available. Something I noticed is that when I shuffled the tracks in the playlist itself, some of the songs that weren't played often would be played more.

As far as I remember, Spotify claims to use the Fisher-Yates shuffle method. But clearly something else is wrong. Someone on the Spotify community forum posted a solution that will make your playlist more random in a sense:

https://community.spotify.com/t5/Help-Desktop-Linux-Mac-Windows/Shuffle-repeats-songs-too-often/td-p/22413/page/4

Just scroll down to solution.

Actually it would make sense that they do if people are complaining about it not being random enough. If you shuffle songs completely randomly, the human brain will try to pick out patterns and you will end up thinking that you hear certain songs, artists, or albums more. Good shuffle algorithms do not simply get a random permutation of all the songs but also try to separate songs by artist, genre, album, etc in order to not have your brain pick out patterns.

http://puu.sh/iyhwD/59cfa85382.jpg

http://i.imgur.com/IBTBZnz.png

only 22 gigs?? lmfao

Honestly if I didn't have tons of my own music I would consider getting spotify premium to get those downloads

Nothing to brag about 8)

22.5 gigs is weak

Yes I have this issue. I share my Spotify account with my wife, despite having several songs from a certain group, a particular one ALWAYS comes up first when I hit 'shuffle play' on all songs (note I mean the first time that band appears, not the first song played). And even though I have several songs by a different artist, I haven't had any of his songs come up in over a month.

anyone want to make a free improv power electronics group with me

Dibs on synthesiser

One of the theories on Spotify's poor shuffling is that it resets the random seed every time you interact with Spotify. Therefore if you are constantly moving between playlists or looking at stuff within the app, your shuffle may be less random than it should be.

See this post: http://www.reddit.com/r/spotify/comments/325092/i_know_this_has_been_said_a_lot_but_here_is_proof/cq82dfk?context=1

Yo how much space does your music take up fam show uss

i actually checked after this thread lol, around 141gb

I have this problem too

even when I use the radio feature on random different songs I still get the same shit

they don't use Fisher-Yates anymore
https://labs.spotify.com/2014/02/28/how-to-shuffle-songs/

Damn it, your flag caused me to think Spotify launched in Israel for a moment. Oh well, back to my 160 gigs.

This sounds great and all but I have to manually add 1000 songs or so to a playlist and I really just won't do that

I have a p good setup for power electronics, let's collab

qualifications

those greedy corporations probably have spotify playing their songs more frequently for those play stats and chart positions

Ooh I remember I have had shuffle issues with Spotify. It seems to happen more when I go between mobile and desktop, where every other song will repeat the same random sequence that was played earlier. It's like hitting shuffle on my phone set up a play queue on my desktop and vice versa.

It hasn't happened since I came home from school in May.

The radio tends to repeat way more than actual playlists.

Yeah it basically has to do with how Spotify monetizes -- same thing happens with radio.
Just make your own playlists.

im at ~200 and i haven't even heard half of it

what do u DO

a different spotify related problem:
everytime i pause/play or skip tracks i get massive input lag in tf2 and the games registers my movements 5 seconds + after i pressed the button.

Also it crashes my mumble a ton and the only fix ive found it to pause/play music however that just leads to the earlier problem :(

what to do?