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> Their shuffle is just not. Imagine listening to the same 20ish songs from a playlist of nearly 2k songs. How can you mess up shuffle that bad?

I thought it was just me! I did notice that sometimes when this happens the numbers being skipped are “this song is currently not available for playback” or some such message.

I seem to listen to the same music a lot actually so just buying the CD would be more cost efficient.



Spotify shuffle is indeed not (uniformly) random, as confirmed by this blog post[1]. The post is eight years old, so it is highly possible the algorithm has changed.

[1]: https://engineering.atspotify.com/2014/02/how-to-shuffle-son...




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