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[-] Stamets@startrek.website 30 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

I didn't hear it anywhere, its personal experience. Spotify straight up isn't shuffling any of my older liked music. Everytime I hit shuffle it always ends up localized around recently saved music and it never changes. Moreover, that's a blogpost from a decade ago. Spotify changes stuff constantly. I seriously doubt that is the same algorithm they're using now. ESPECIALLY considering they've introduced 'Smart Shuffle' which doesn't only shuffle music you have saved but adds completely new music into the mix as well. That and Spotifys overall quality control has dropped drastically in the past decade.

[-] fishos@lemmy.world 19 points 9 months ago

While I can agree with others that it might not be that strict and they may get more variety, from personal experience, my 700+ song playlist tends to focus on a handful of songs. Blue - Eiffel 65 gets a CRAZY amount of playtime for some reason. It's a running joke with my carpool that it's my car's theme song. I can sometimes skip it 2-3 times on my drive to work. And some songs seem to never come up. I've been having some better luck with the AI DJ lately, although it will throw in an entire chunk of songs I don't even care about as basically ads.

[-] SlikPikker@lemmy.ca 9 points 9 months ago

That song is probably cheap for them to play

[-] nyctre@lemmy.world 7 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

I've got thousands of liked songs and I get a nice variety of old and recent stuff. From last month to as old as 8 years ago. Sometimes I get too many songs from the same band, sure, but when you've got 50-100 songs from the same band liked, that's bound to happen

[-] emeralddawn45@discuss.tchncs.de 3 points 9 months ago

Yeah I've got like 8000 and there have been times when it feels like it's focusing on newly added stuff, but older stuff definitely does pop up and I feel like it's a pretty good mix. 90% of the time I've just got my whole library on shuffle unless I'm actively looking for new stuff to add.

[-] Fades@lemmy.world 4 points 9 months ago

Personal experience aka anecdotal evidence aka fucking useless

[-] snowe@programming.dev 5 points 9 months ago

Especially when they state it like it’s fact in the title and then can’t back it up at all.

[-] Virock@startrek.website 1 points 8 months ago

I use Virtual Shuffle to force Spotify to play truly random tracks https://shuffle.virock.org

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