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One Hit Wonder
Nov 10, 2026 7:13 AM UTC

The shuffle is driving me insane, I am so close to unsubscribing, why cant they fix this

These screenshots are all from the same 8 odd hour shuffled playlist, and these are nowhere near all of the repeats as I do not have the patience to catalog every single one. 

 

I have over 60 hours of music downloaded. When I press shuffle, it makes a playlist around 8 or so hours long, somewhere between 100-200 tracks. And, for some godforsaken reason, EVERY SINGLE TIME, this stupid app decides “you want to hear the same songs over and over within this 8 hour span, right?”.

 

I want to say on any given playlists theres at least 30 or so songs that repeat, oftentimes within the span of a half hour (and sometimes it repeats the same few songs back to back, as seen above). Sometimes it puts the same song in a playlist 3-4 times. Again, I have 18 gigs of songs downloaded, and I am just pressing the “shuffle downloads” button. There is no way in hell it doesnt have enough songs to make a simple zero-repeats shuffled playlist. 

 

And for that matter, it seems like the damn thing wants to run all of my favorite songs into the ground, because not only does it repeat the same songs over and over in a single playlist, but it also loves to choose the same songs every time I make a playlist. “Oh, you love this song? want to hear it every single day? want us to put it on EVERY SINGLE SHUFFLED PLAYLIST AT LEAST ONCE, MAYBE UP TO FOUR TIMES? THE BEST WAY TO ENJOY A SONG IS TO LISTEN TO IT UNTIL YOURE SICK OF IT, RIGHT?”

 

For gods sake, when i press shuffle on a list of a couple thousand songs, THAT MEANS I WANT TO BE SERVED RANDOM STUFF. If i want to listen to the same stuff in a specific order, I will listen to one of my 30 playlists. 

 

It cannot be that hard to program a shuffle function that plays songs in a random order without repeats. if my tinkerbell MP3 player was able to do it 20 years ago, I promise you we have the technology to do it today. Shuffle is one of the most basic functions of any music player, yall should be able to manage this. 

 

I am so tired of this, its starting to drive me insane. If theres not a fix for this by the end of the year or something I’m taking my wrap and finding a new app 

2 replies

whilommAuthor
One Hit Wonder
Nov 10, 2026 9:39 AM UTC

tried reshuffling again to see if I could make it give me the same song 3 times on the same screen again (where you dont even have to scroll its just. oh its playing the same song 3 times within 30 minutes. cool 👍)

 

i wish i was making this up. Deezer I promise you those 18 gigs of songs I have downloaded arent just these 3 songs. I dont know how to tell you that no, I dont want “shuffle downloads” to make a 5 song playlist with only 3 unique songs. 

awesomemac
Superuser
Superuser
Nov 10, 2026 9:24 PM UTC

I think your main point is completely fair: if you shuffle a library containing thousands of songs, duplicate tracks shouldn't appear multiple times in the same queue.

A shuffle feature doesn't have to be perfect, but it should at least provide variety and avoid obvious repeats. Otherwise it defeats the whole purpose of shuffling in the first place.

Hopefully this is something the developers can investigate, because you're clearly not looking for a smarter algorithm, just a genuinely random one. 😊