“It will find patterns where there aren’t any.”
“Our brain is an excellent pattern-matching device,” Babar Zafar, a lead developer at Spotify, tells the BBC World Service. Spotify has denied allegations of ‘fixing’ their shuffle option, and the science agrees. “It’s almost unbelievable to me that such a simple process is broken,” another user wrote. “On my 442 song playlist, the same 30 or 35 tracks play over and over again and the other 400 songs I have barely heard once,” one user wrote on a Spotify forum, via the Daily Mail. In fact, as the BBC reports, Spotify have had to change up their shuffle algorithm to account for our bothersome idea of what random is supposed to sound like, i.e. Spotify says this update is rolling out over the next few weeks for all users worldwide.Well, it turns out the latter may have more to do with our flawed concept of “random” than with services like Spotify. Making this a premium function on the mobile versions seems a little underhanded to us. In fact, it already existed on Spotify for free in the browser and desktop versions of the app. Having separate buttons for shuffle & just play just makes sense.
Others, famously including Adele, have objected to shuffle being the default experience when listening to an album. Shuffle style play is actually a useful feature for discovering new music if you let your system play a radio. However, this modification to the UI will only be available for Spotify Premium, its subscription service, on Android and iOS. So, instead of the single Play button there will now be both Play and Shuffle at the top of your playlists.
The announcement goes on to point out that Spotify will be separating the Play and the Shuffle button on its app for iOS and Android. A great sentiment if you ask us, and definitely words we like to hear. "Music-and how you listen to it-should be yours to control" says the announcement on the Spotify blog. Screenshot of Spotify Playlists on Mobile in Current State
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