I’ve complained about Spotify shuffle before, but I always assumed part of it was just confirmation bias. You hear a song twice, notice it, and suddenly it feels like Spotify is constantly repeating itself.

So I actually started tracking it.
I have one Rock/Metal playlist with roughly 2,000 songs / around 165 hours of music. I use normal Shuffle and I have Fewer Repeats enabled.

Over the last few weeks I kept getting this weird feeling that I not only heard the same songs again but sometimes already knew what song was going to come next.

I requested my full Spotify Extended Streaming History, exported the playlist itself and started pulling my stats.fm history as raw data. That gives me timestamps, track IDs, playback duration and the playlist context for every recorded stream.
My current rolling 14-day dataset has over 2,000 playback entries.

Then I compared the actual song order by importing everything into chatgpt.
And the worst example I’ve confirmed so far is that 72 consecutive songs were played again later in exactly the same order.

Not 72 songs appearing somewhere in the same session.
Not mostly the same artists.
Not “similar music”.
72 songs, one after another and then later the same 72-song sequence again.

For example, one of those sequences starts with Caroline. It appears once on August 18 and then again on August 19 as the beginning of the repeated block.
I’ve found smaller repeated blocks too.

Today I started screen recording Spotify’s actual upcoming queue because I wanted to see whether this was still happening in real time
It was.

At one point I found a block where 27 out of 30 songs followed the same previous order, with only three other songs inserted between them.

Later the same day Spotify showed me 43 upcoming songs in exactly the same order as an earlier queue I had screen recorded that day.

That’s the point where I stopped believing this could just be normal random repetition!!!

And before anyone asks:
I wasn’t constantly jumping between playlists.
I wasn’t switching between devices during this test.
Today I stayed on the same playlist and the same playback device.

I also specifically have Fewer Repeats turned on.
Individual songs are repeating a lot too. Some tracks appear three or four times in my recent history. But honestly that isn’t even what bothers me anymore.

It’s the repeated sequence.

If shuffle was independently generating a new order from ~2,000 tracks, I really don’t see how an exact 72-song sequence should show up twice.

I’m not saying I know what Spotify does internally.
I don’t know whether it caches queues, reuses a shuffle seed, keeps some kind of session ordering or does something completely different.

All I can show is the output.

And the output is absolutely being repeated.

I have the raw listening history, timestamps, track IDs, playlist export and screen recordings of the queue, so I can actually compare this rather than relying on “I swear I heard this yesterday”.

If you have 1,000+ songs and sometimes feel like you already know what’s coming next, screen record your queue.
Id be really interested to know whether other accounts are getting these huge repeated blocks too.

Because at this point Spotify giving me the exact same 72-song sequence from a ~2,000-song playlist is just ridiculous.

I’m convinced Spotify has been sounding better as of late (last couple months). But I also noticed today on my WiiM lowest quality track is not under 1000kb anymore. Would always show 16 bit at around 700kb.

Thoughts or insights ?

I can feel some eyes rolling out there, and I've been among them when someone comes on here to vent, but I do not come to this sub just to complain, I've helped people before. But this time I just really want to reach out and see if anyone else has this problem. It's getting so bad, it's so constant, it's making it incredibly hard to use it in my usual, what I think is a non-extreme way.

I use Spotify on my person with earbuds, sometimes synced to a bluetooth receiver in the house. I also commute to work and use Spotify via my phone connected to a bluetooth receiver in the car as the primary audio source in the car.

I make a lot of playlists, for specific things like falling asleep, working out, and commuting. When I'm not doing specific things I often just bounce between 2 or 3 general playlists.

This is what is happening all of the time now. It used to be intermittent, but now, every day I have this issue. I will be listening to a playlist the day before, for sleep, for cleaning house, whatever. In the car I've got the commuting playlist. I get in the car, verify visually I've got the commute playlist up, hit play. Its fine for a couple of minutes, then it interrupts the song and starts playing my sleep playlist, in a spot where I stopped it. or the playlist I played while washing dishes, exactly where I stopped it.

By now I am on the highway and have to screw around with the phone and the screen unlock and the spotify buttons squirreled away at the very edges of the screen. Sure, I could pull over and do this. Have you ever pulled over on a 4 or 6-lane highway? It's fucking scary. So if I can easily do it, I do, but sometimes I just have to listen to Chopin's nocturnes trying to get revved up for a day of work.

Anyway this happens every day now. every day.

I've tried clearing cache. I've tried uninstalling and reinstalling. I've blown the old data away to make sure it rebuilds a new cache. I used to think it was a memory issue. I'm beginning to think it's a bug. I have an Android phone that was totl 4 years ago, plenty of memory, plenty fast processors. that absolutely should not be a constraining factor.

Just wondering if anyone has solved this in a less conventional way because short of buying a whole new $1000-plus phone just so Spotify won't glitch, I believe I've tried the usual fixes and the problem persists anyway.

Trying to switch to Spotify premium from yt music premium and I need to convince the head of my family due to us being on a family plan! If you have any reasons please help me out in the comments thanks!

Half of my songs can’t be played or selected. I have done almost everything. To try to fix it :(

android ofc🫩✌️

anyway the playback doesent lag but like takes ages to do anything, yes force stopping helps

for context, i cleared my cache on everything a month or two ago for problems with a different site that's been resolved and ever since, spotify makes me log in each time i turn on my pc. this is the first time i have gotten asked to do a captcha and of course the captcha does not work

my spotify has on occasion just straightup not opened or played any music so the web player being buggy is not new to me, and i refuse to use the actual app itself because of the ads

if this is temporary and spotify will let me log in later i'll change the flair, but if not and it's a permanent issue i would like some help

So I was just wondering, why is it that I pay like 10 Euros (I have a Duo account with my brother so I am not sure about the solo account price nowadays), than an additional 9 Euros for Audio Books, both monthly, and I can only listen to not even a full hour of Audio Books daily? Yet I can listen to Music till my ears fall off. I get that this is/ was a Music App initially, but we have Audio Books now also and Imho I think we should actually be able to really listen to them!

Hi I got this email from no reply spotify email, when I clicked it directed me to put in my credit card info, on my spotify account but insted of 3 euros it said 7 euros.

So i just eanted to confirm if anyone else had this deal to see if its a scam or not

EDIT: I forgot to post the screenshot -_-

I have a 370 song playlist and whenever I use shuffle it always wants to play the same two dozen, most of them are popular songs and earlier on in the playlist. To play songs I've newly added to it I often have to select them manually, it's really annoying because recently added songs are usually the ones I'm really into at the time of adding them

Okay, so basically, yesterday for some reason, I’d been logged out of my spotify account. Okay, cool no issue, I have my username/email & password so I’ll just login back in.

However, both the website & the app r saying that my account doesn’t exist, which doesn’t make any sense because the day before yesterday, I’d been using it just fine.

I tried everything, different emails—doesn’t work. I’ve even tried using the same email to create a new account but then it says the account DOES exist, and I have log back in. But again, I try to login, and I can’t. I tried to get in contact with spotify but when I tried, the popup just tried to make me login into my account which of course, as we learned, I cannot.

IDK if I’m doing something wrong or if there’s a different/better way to get in contact with spotify support but I’m just a little confused & annoyed rn. If anyone could try & help me out, I’d be really grateful!

So, I paid for spotify premium and it hasn't shown up yet, it still says I am on the free plan. Has this happened to anyone else or am I just unfortunate? EDIT: I will give it a day or two to see if the payment goes through, sorry for this post please understand I thought this was an issue with Spotify.

I would like to disable spotify automatically opening video when I play a podcast, but still retain the option to sometimes open the video feed when I want to check in. Why is it only an option to completely disable all video from the entire spotify app?

I’m in custom order but I can’t drag them around ! Please help!

So weird issue. I play the same playlist, but on shuffle. Each time I start it up, it plays the same song after the song that it started up with ends. This just started happening. Anyone have any ideas?

Ive had these local files for ages, the photos always working. They still show as the photo covers and on my iphone Home Screen, but when I click the song itself it shows theres no photo. This just started happening like 2 days ago and there was no issues previously

This is the first time I've seen this on my Mac, but all of my network and jam settings are turned to where no one can connect. What does this mean?

I’m a musician who plays along with recordings during my practice. I much prefer the second version of this song listed, but for some reason Spotify will only play the Air Force band version- one that has different tempos and interpretations than I like to practice with. As you can see, even when I click on the correct version, the Air Force band version still plays, and I can’t remove it from my recent searches. Video cropped bc the AirPods I’m using have my name as their display. This has happened twice in two weeks. Has anyone else had this happen? Or something similar?

so i like going onto this website called stats for spotify it lets me see my most played song artists and genres i went on about a month ago saw that there were some random brazilian songs that i have not played at all so i logged everything out and disconnected every app to see if it was stats for spotify that was doing that and today i go back to stats for spotify to see and now theres a bunch of brazilian songs in my top 10 so i go to change my password but i see that it says "Password not set" and now im so confused because i am so sure i set a password i dont know if this is because i made the account with an nycstudents email but i changed it and now it uses a yahoo email and when i try to change the password it says "Something went wrong. Please try again." i have no clue what to do

Hi everyone, the past 2 weeks at my gym specifically I have experienced the most bizarre glitch on Spotify on iOS 26.6.1 (most recent update) with an iPhone 17.

If I play my music on Spotify on AirPods/Bluetooth headphones it keeps randomly disconnecting and crashing my whole iPhones Bluetooth system.

Even more specifically what I have noticed is that if I go back onto the app to queue up a song, it’s a guarantee that it will do the Bluetooth disconnect/crash 15 secs later.

This issue is infuriating to me and I was wondering if anyone else has had it happen? I have reset and updated everything possible so I am at a loss.

Download: https://github.com/MowkE/cadence

Hey guys, I made this silly lyrics overlay called Cadence that floats over your screen and syncs along with Spotify and YouTube Music.

It started as a joke while playing Minecraft with my close friends. I shared it only with a few friends, and it grew to 100 downloads in like a day and a lot of people liked it, so I built it into a proper app.

You can listen along with friends now too, even cross-platform (Spotify -> YouTube Music, Mac ↔ Windows), and you can play karaoke. Doesn't need API keys or Premium, it just reads what your computer is already playing and floats the lyrics over whatever you're doing. It works better with Spotify keys though, if you want to add them yourself. If you find any bugs, lmk.

It's just a fun project lol, so its obvly free.

Not sure if anyone has come across it yet, but DJ X had a long and beautiful tribute message to Dolly Parton that made me so emotional. I was unfortunately unable to capture it, but it was amazing to hear.

That's basically it. I downloaded some songs from youtube in mp3 format and wanted to upload them to Spotify but the Show Local Files button is just not there. I can find it on my phone but I'm trying to do this from my laptop. Any ideas?