The Truth About Spotify Shuffle

I wish there would be a true random smart shuffle. One that gives you your playlist in a random order and the picks an artist from the last 3 played songs and gives you a random song from them. I have the feeling that there are new songs in smart shuffle but often it’s all the same.

The tech speaker mannerisms 😂

Bro I love the idea of this but holy man I just spent the last hour downloading node.js, Git, finding how to create an app for spotify, finding out why the code doesn't what to run, then finally getting it to work on a local host and launch...
Please just release a how to vidoeo or short to show people 🙏

Nah it won't connect to my spotify! Please help😥

I get the curated randomness, but it definitely doesn't work how you would expect such an algorithm because you can skip a song the next 100 times it comes up and spotify will still keep throwing at you because you used to like it or something

love the vibes on this video

bro reinvented spicetify shuffle+ plugin but slightly worse (and to give credit where its due, mobile friendly)

No hate, you look like a tall Goomba in that sweater

A setup tutorial would be very appreciated.
Got it working on localhost after an hour of pain.
Thanks for sharing though!

What a man gotta do to persuade you to make a version of this for youtube playlists?

Youtube shuffle seems to be very broken not just because rigged random but especially with long playlists it seems to lose track of what it's even doing, often repeating just the same 3 songs out of multiple thousands over and over, or breaking out of the playlist altogether (how does this happen??)

is there any way of using this without building it from github?

Okay, Magnum

The other thing you glossed over with why Spotify prefers playing songs you've recently listened to is that it reduces their server costs. If you've recently listened to a song, your phone has it in the app's cache memory, so it doesn't need to be re-downloaded. The less you have to download from Spotify servers the cheaper those servers are to run.

5:48 congrats, your playlist just got annexed by Игорь Крутой

I swear that on my YouTube playlist with 2,300 songs when one clicks shuffle it picks a number between 1 and 200. I have not done much testing but youtube gives me all the top videos only

never had this issue since I use spicetify

I love the wii party in the background keep it up man

This is the reason i moved away from Spotify as a whole.

I'm lost af trying to figure out how to get that app working for android...

Didn't expect to see Dimash and Igor Krutoy here

are you in the piar discord server?

I think I am fine with the spacing random shuffle. That makes it feel random. I just don’t like the algorithm part to only display songs you like, which often means whatever I first got in the shuffle.

You should make this a jay gray plug-in

I use YouTube Music, and I'm not entirely sure, but it definitely feels like I'm hearing songs that I rarely listen to. Doesn't feel repetitive like "true" pseudorandom shuffle, but doesn't feel like I'm listening to the same songs like with an algorithmic shuffle.

Thanks for this interesting topic. I didn't know it has so much debate and history.
I believe there is a third factor of Spotify's "random" -Algorithm: The revenue and deals with artists.
If they have special deals with artists, they could play these songs more often, because then they don't need to pay that much money per play. So spotify is earning the same money, while spending less because of their algorithms.
I never found any proof and this could be also an conspiracy, but it would only make sense for this fucked up music industry.

SoundCloud still works

I miss youtube recommended actually surprising me! You should do the same thing for youtube!!!

Good work keep it up

i have about 7000 liked songs but i feel like spotify only lets me listen to like 50 of them at any given time lol. i will definitely check this out

bruh got that "if blade was a warlock" type drip

They should add this as an option

The hair+mustache combo goes hard

amazing! i've always felt that it's just giving me the my fav hits and i was right haha. thanks for making this tool. btw do you have portuguese family? because of your last name being fonseca

The only redeeming spotify feature is Discover Weekly

Most people add a bajillion songs to their spotify. I only have the songs I like more than a tiny bit, so spotify's algorithm sucks for me lol. I've looked for an app that does this for a long time, so thanks man

Pls repair this annoying automatic ai translation because I won't watch a single video with it

There is a music app that shuffles truly random too, but also makes a new listening queue every time you hit shuffle. At a later session, you could click on a previously started queue and continue where you left off, making sure that by the end of this queue, you have truly listened to your whole playlist in a random shuffle

I don't think I've had any problem with the Spotify shuffle but I've heard about this, I genuinely like listening to my favorite artists over and over again but at the same time I want to try true randomness.

I enjoyed this video

brooo i was talking about true randomness a few days ago with spotify you're the goat for making this

Love this :) 🎉🎉🎉

I became frustrated with "random" shuffle a year or two ago. At some point I ran into the website playlist+help (the plus should be a dot). You can shuffle the order of your playlists there, so you don't have to use spotify's shuffle option at all.

I have no experience with coding and all, can you please somehow drop the tutorial on how to do this on ios?

Before I even watched the video I liked it cuz I know whatever you make will be way better than Spotify 😂