cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/14571229
A simpler time
this post was submitted on 22 Apr 2024
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You can watch it happen in real time.
Select your library and click the play random then go to your now playing Playlist and it has a list of upcoming tracks. Each time a song ends the last song is updated.
The current Playlist block may have context, but anything outside the currently playing seems to just randomly select songs from your overall library.
And I've read this article about a dozen times over the years. I honestly don't think Spotify knows what people want in random which is why you can see people complain about their randomness from their inception til today.
IIRC this video goes over the chunking at some point https://youtu.be/OdLyKETk5o0
I'll vouch for this too. When I shuffle on Spotify, it will repeat itself guaranteed after a set of songs. Not just play one again by coincidence - repeat the entire list of songs I just heard in the same order.
Can confirm. My 2k playlist probably cycles 2x through the first 200-300 songs and it sprinkles some older songs inbetween.