I had an iPod something-or-other, and I think it gave Spotify the idea of shuffling maybe 45 songs of thousands over-and-over, and completely ignoring 93 percent of the music.
I might pick one of these up so I can do that now in color.
This is a problem with Spotify's shuffling algorithm. It's really stupid, it ignores some songs completely.
They used to have a good algorithm, but because it was truly random, some users complained about hearing the same artist quickly in sequence.
Instead of implementing a list of recently played songs they changed the algorithm to be 'smart' but it's actually quite dumb because it really never plays some songs. Especially when you have only a few artists in the playlist, and some with less songs than others. As I tend to do.
They say it's "more appealing to the human brain" but I think it stinks. I wish they had an option to switch back a truly random one. If I don't like a song I'll skip it anyway. But never presenting some is worse.
I might pick one of these up so I can do that now in color.