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Shuffle Plays Same Handful of Recent Artiists and Even Same Songs

  • August 23, 2026
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Long time Deezer premium user here. Recently (6 months or so) the randomization of the Shuffle feature (button at the the top of Library) seems to play the same artists and even the same songs no matter how many times I freshly press shuffle. There are some “random” new artists and songs interspersed in there, but the majority of the queue is same artists as last time. Never used to be this bad. Now I find myself having to fast forward through most of queue. The Shuffle feature is nearly useless to me now. I have 286 playlists and thousands of songs. There’s nothing random about shuffling my library if it plays same artists and songs as last time. Anyone notice similar?

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Alfredo.Deezer
Community Manager
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  • Community Manager
  • August 24, 2026

Hi ​@YourMajesty  👋 

We are sorry to hear that! We have cleared the cache of your account from our side so this will help to improve the new recommendations-shuffle suggestions.

Let us know how it goes, please!


  • Roadie
  • August 27, 2026

I'm so glad to see this, I thought it was in my head. In a playlist with over a hundred songs, when I hit shuffle, it plays the same artists back to back within that playlist. Totally defeats the point of shuffling. Maybe I need my cache cleared as well Deezer?


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  • One Hit Wonder
  • August 28, 2026

@Alfredo.Deezer Sadly clearing the service side cache for me has not improved the situation.  Been trying it for 4 days, no noticeable change. Same dozen artists are continually selected when shuffling at the library level, most playing the same song as last time. I notice that if I play one of my playlists, then next time I shuffle at the the library level (and at future times) several of these tracks appear right away in the queue and they become repeaters. I also notice now in my shuffled library queue, tracks that are not even part of my library at all, but probably came from some of the Deezer playlists that I’ve recently tried. BTW I have all recommendations turned off. That’s new behavior related to library shuffling I’ve not seen before. Something has changed with library shuffle and not for the better.