Was it designed to be unpalatable - everything about, the tone, accent, pacing.

Is there a way to change it?

I’ve complained about Spotify shuffle before, but I always assumed part of it was just confirmation bias. You hear a song twice, notice it, and suddenly it feels like Spotify is constantly repeating itself.

So I actually started tracking it.
I have one Rock/Metal playlist with roughly 2,000 songs / around 165 hours of music. I use normal Shuffle and I have Fewer Repeats enabled.

Over the last few weeks I kept getting this weird feeling that I not only heard the same songs again but sometimes already knew what song was going to come next.

I requested my full Spotify Extended Streaming History, exported the playlist itself and started pulling my stats.fm history as raw data. That gives me timestamps, track IDs, playback duration and the playlist context for every recorded stream.
My current rolling 14-day dataset has over 2,000 playback entries.

Then I compared the actual song order by importing everything into chatgpt.
And the worst example I’ve confirmed so far is that 72 consecutive songs were played again later in exactly the same order.

Not 72 songs appearing somewhere in the same session.
Not mostly the same artists.
Not “similar music”.
72 songs, one after another and then later the same 72-song sequence again.

For example, one of those sequences starts with Caroline. It appears once on August 18 and then again on August 19 as the beginning of the repeated block.
I’ve found smaller repeated blocks too.

Today I started screen recording Spotify’s actual upcoming queue because I wanted to see whether this was still happening in real time
It was.

At one point I found a block where 27 out of 30 songs followed the same previous order, with only three other songs inserted between them.

Later the same day Spotify showed me 43 upcoming songs in exactly the same order as an earlier queue I had screen recorded that day.

That’s the point where I stopped believing this could just be normal random repetition!!!

And before anyone asks:
I wasn’t constantly jumping between playlists.
I wasn’t switching between devices during this test.
Today I stayed on the same playlist and the same playback device.

I also specifically have Fewer Repeats turned on.
Individual songs are repeating a lot too. Some tracks appear three or four times in my recent history. But honestly that isn’t even what bothers me anymore.

It’s the repeated sequence.

If shuffle was independently generating a new order from ~2,000 tracks, I really don’t see how an exact 72-song sequence should show up twice.

I’m not saying I know what Spotify does internally.
I don’t know whether it caches queues, reuses a shuffle seed, keeps some kind of session ordering or does something completely different.

All I can show is the output.

And the output is absolutely being repeated.

I have the raw listening history, timestamps, track IDs, playlist export and screen recordings of the queue, so I can actually compare this rather than relying on “I swear I heard this yesterday”.

If you have 1,000+ songs and sometimes feel like you already know what’s coming next, screen record your queue.
Id be really interested to know whether other accounts are getting these huge repeated blocks too.

Because at this point Spotify giving me the exact same 72-song sequence from a ~2,000-song playlist is just ridiculous.

I'm a perfectionist, and because of this I struggle a lot with playlists due to two reasons. One is that it never looks nice next to all the albums in my library. The other is that I make the playlist too bloated and add songs that realistically I don't want to listen to.

If anyone feels the same I'd love some help 👍

Anything I can do or am i just screwed?

Remember when in playlists , we could scroll through years ? I don’t understand why Spotify removed that. It was kinda useful while looking at massive playlists.

Did spotify just blocked every russian songs including russian language songs ? All my russian songs are grey out and nobody, even the customer reps doesn’t know why

For years I've had a family plan and my login is a series of numbers and not an email address. This morning I was unable to log in and I can't find an email address that seems to work. Can anyone tell me how I can contact Spotify and try to get this resolved?

To start I use a program called scrcpy that brings Android functionality to my desktop. Otherwise this method can be done directly from an mobile device including iPhones.

Any questions are welcome.

I’m convinced Spotify has been sounding better as of late (last couple months). But I also noticed today on my WiiM lowest quality track is not under 1000kb anymore. Would always show 16 bit at around 700kb.

Thoughts or insights ?

So, I paid for spotify premium and it hasn't shown up yet, it still says I am on the free plan. Has this happened to anyone else or am I just unfortunate? EDIT: I will give it a day or two to see if the payment goes through, sorry for this post please understand I thought this was an issue with Spotify.

The menus under each of the tabs keep disappearing. Mostly the Podcasts, sometimes the Music. Is it probably just me, my connection, or is it just something that happens to everyone?

Ive had these local files for ages, the photos always working. They still show as the photo covers and on my iphone Home Screen, but when I click the song itself it shows theres no photo. This just started happening like 2 days ago and there was no issues previously

Perdí mi cuenta de spotify el domingo, lo que paso es que la tenía en mi celular, entonces el celular se me reinicio y gracias a la copia de seguridad no perdí muchas cosas, pero si mi espoti, entonces ya intente recuperar mi cuenta, eh estado un buen rato intentando con diferentes metodos, pero no puedo por que solo tengo mi NOMBRE DE USUARIO, y es " EL BICHO". Adjunto evidencia a ver si alguien me puede ayudar.

Por su atención muchas gracias c:

So I was just wondering, why is it that I pay like 10 Euros (I have a Duo account with my brother so I am not sure about the solo account price nowadays), than an additional 9 Euros for Audio Books, both monthly, and I can only listen to not even a full hour of Audio Books daily? Yet I can listen to Music till my ears fall off. I get that this is/ was a Music App initially, but we have Audio Books now also and Imho I think we should actually be able to really listen to them!

I would like to disable spotify automatically opening video when I play a podcast, but still retain the option to sometimes open the video feed when I want to check in. Why is it only an option to completely disable all video from the entire spotify app?

I’m in custom order but I can’t drag them around ! Please help!

Trying to switch to Spotify premium from yt music premium and I need to convince the head of my family due to us being on a family plan! If you have any reasons please help me out in the comments thanks!

So weird issue. I play the same playlist, but on shuffle. Each time I start it up, it plays the same song after the song that it started up with ends. This just started happening. Anyone have any ideas?

This is the first time I've seen this on my Mac, but all of my network and jam settings are turned to where no one can connect. What does this mean?

I’m a musician who plays along with recordings during my practice. I much prefer the second version of this song listed, but for some reason Spotify will only play the Air Force band version- one that has different tempos and interpretations than I like to practice with. As you can see, even when I click on the correct version, the Air Force band version still plays, and I can’t remove it from my recent searches. Video cropped bc the AirPods I’m using have my name as their display. This has happened twice in two weeks. Has anyone else had this happen? Or something similar?