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I don’t know where you heard that but it’s not correct.
https://engineering.atspotify.com/2014/02/how-to-shuffle-songs/
I didn't hear it anywhere, its personal experience. Spotify straight up isn't shuffling any of my older liked music. Everytime I hit shuffle it always ends up localized around recently saved music and it never changes. Moreover, that's a blogpost from a decade ago. Spotify changes stuff constantly. I seriously doubt that is the same algorithm they're using now. ESPECIALLY considering they've introduced 'Smart Shuffle' which doesn't only shuffle music you have saved but adds completely new music into the mix as well. That and Spotifys overall quality control has dropped drastically in the past decade.
While I can agree with others that it might not be that strict and they may get more variety, from personal experience, my 700+ song playlist tends to focus on a handful of songs. Blue - Eiffel 65 gets a CRAZY amount of playtime for some reason. It's a running joke with my carpool that it's my car's theme song. I can sometimes skip it 2-3 times on my drive to work. And some songs seem to never come up. I've been having some better luck with the AI DJ lately, although it will throw in an entire chunk of songs I don't even care about as basically ads.
That song is probably cheap for them to play
I've got thousands of liked songs and I get a nice variety of old and recent stuff. From last month to as old as 8 years ago. Sometimes I get too many songs from the same band, sure, but when you've got 50-100 songs from the same band liked, that's bound to happen
Yeah I've got like 8000 and there have been times when it feels like it's focusing on newly added stuff, but older stuff definitely does pop up and I feel like it's a pretty good mix. 90% of the time I've just got my whole library on shuffle unless I'm actively looking for new stuff to add.
Personal experience aka anecdotal evidence aka fucking useless
Especially when they state it like it’s fact in the title and then can’t back it up at all.
Oh really? Have you ever eaten a peanut butter and jelly sandwich?
Nope, what's your point?
I use Virtual Shuffle to force Spotify to play truly random tracks https://shuffle.virock.org
Yeah okay, so they use the Fisher Yates algorithm. Then how the fuck in my playlist of 1000 songs am I CONSTANTLY getting hit with multiple songs by the same artist? Once in a while, okay, that's statistically likely, but not all the time, and not every time.
how many songs by the same artist do you have in that playlist? Your comments here don't make sense. Repeating the same artist doesn't make something not random and definitely doesn't make it "the most 100 recently saved songs". In fact repeating the same artist makes it quite likely that it is random as randomness is frequently misinterpreted as non-random if you would have read the article I linked you would understand that.
Interesting read