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One Hit Wonder
July 8, 2025

Is there a way to get a true shuffle, instead of a biased one that prioritize the latest favorited songs?

  • July 8, 2025
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I noticed that the "shuffle my music" tends to prioritize songs that I had recently added to a playlist or marked as a favorite, instead of shuffling all my saved songs in equal importance. I find that behavior supper annoying because when I hit "shuffle my music" what I'm looking for is literally moving away from the things that I've been listening recently.

Is there a way for customizing this shuffle behavior?

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awesomemac
Superuser
Superuser
July 8, 2025

When I use the option “Shuffle My Music” I get a mix of favourites with songs I would like.

When I want to play only my favourites in shuffle I select my favourites, start playing and choose shuffle.

Reading your message, you don’t get songs that you would like when using “Shuffle My Music”?

EissomAuthor
One Hit Wonder
July 11, 2025

Reading your message, you don’t get songs that you would like when using “Shuffle My Music”?

It's not that I don't get them on shuffle, I get them, but in a lower amount when compared to things I've been recently listening. I just performed a test to give you a concrete example:
I clicked "Shuffle My Music" and I'm looking at the first 12 results the shuffle queued for me (there are more, but 12 fit into my browser window as I have it now). 5 songs out of the 12 I'm looking at are ones that I added to my playlists this week. I have thousands of songs on my playlists and been adding them for almost a decade. If shuffle was truly random and giving all songs on my playlists an equal chance to get in the queue, it would be very unlikely (although mathematically possible) that 5 out 12 songs were those I added this week.