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How to shuffle songs? - Spotify Engineering (engineering.atspotify.com)

submitted 1 month ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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This (old) post details how to interfere with randomness to make it feel more random to the end user.

This reminded me of how many games “cheat” in a similar way to make critical hits seem more fair (increase the probability when it has not triggered for too long and decrease it when it just triggered)

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[–] Sendpicsofsandwiches 55 points 1 month ago (6 children)

Spotify's shuffle technique: play the same 5 or 6 songs in a row on a given playlist every time you play it on shuffle despite the literal hundreds of ither songs to pick from

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 month ago (4 children)

I'm pretty sure a lot of that is based on what is cached locally. I remember reading something about it.
Finding & clearing the local cache should fix it.
Saves them a ton of bandwidth I guess.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago

saving bandwidth at cost of poor experience. is this different for paid users ?

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