Spotify is the most popular music streaming app and for people who use it often, a glaring issue begins to show up. Spotify does not have a true shuffle button. Its shuffle button is not random. The two biggest things that I and others have noticed is that when you hit shuffle, Spotify tries to avoid playing the songs you play most so that it sounds like a better shuffle since you hear those songs often. The problem here is that means it skips your favorite songs. Your songs that are on multiple playlists, or that you choose to play will show up less often in shuffle. The other problem is that if you add a bunch of music to a playlist it will only play the new stuff for awhile. Or if you want to make a playlist combining two genres, but you listen to one much more, you will only be hearing one genre until the first runs out.

The other problem people have noticed is that it seems they have songs on a playlist that play everyday and songs that play once a month. Some songs play way more than others. Some have theorized that spotify does this because they have to pay more for some songs than others so they make us listen to the cheaper songs when on shuffle. 

I am tired of spotify's terrible shuffle algorithm. I am not claiming I have it figured out, but I know I don't like it. I'm not asking that they get rid of it, simply that they give us the option of a true random shuffle. Let us enjoy our music how we want to!