Your shuffle button hit the same artist three times in twenty minutes again. That sinking feeling that Spotify “knows” what you want to hear isn’t paranoia-it’s by design. Spotify’s shuffle feature ...

Spotify may add two shuffle modes: Standard (true random) and Fewer Repeats (less likely to replay recent tracks). True random can repeat songs; Spotify avoids pure randomness so playback feels less ...

Spotify has responded to user complaints that its shuffle playlists do not actually play songs in random order. Users accused the company of playing songs which generate more revenue more frequently ...

What is it about the shuffle in Apple products?<BR><BR>Even since the original iTunes, shuffle has been nothing but a joke. I've been trying to work out what exactly is wrong with it. In my case, it ...

Since the rise of the iPod as a cultural icon, writers and music fans have written countless tributes to the random shuffle function. The argument goes that human curators are no longer needed, the ...

We call in Weekend Edition's Math Guy, Keith Devlin, to help NPR's Susan Stamberg answer a listener's question about how the shuffle feature works — or doesn't — in iPods. Lisa Forrest(ph), a listener ...

I have a library of 213 songs currently. I turned on Shuffle, but it might jump around a few times, but then for like 5 songs in a row, it'll play songs in order, then it'll be random again for like 5 ...