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Apparently back in the covered wagon days when shuffle features were truly random, the listener would occasionally be burdened by hearing two songs by the same artist in a row. Literally no one complained about this, so of course upper management decided that this must be "fixed" immediately, so that's what led to shuffle features becoming noticeably worse than when they were simply random, which is all anyone ever wanted them to be.
Actually, and I don't mean to be that guy, but people did complain about it.
True random means that you could end up with songs by the same artist being played four or five times in a row, which makes people think it's not random at all. Humans are really bad at understanding randomness, so a little help to make it feel more random improves satisfaction.
But at this point, it's gone too far and I'm almost certain that shuffling involves always playing the most popular songs by an artist first, then random covers and remixes, then the back-catalog of works.
On a side note, I wish I could exclude remixes and covers when shuffling through an artist's stuff.
Not all of us. I can't imagine not understanding that if something's random, there's a possibility that something like playing the same artist five times in a row might happen. It's cute when that happens, it's a thing that should be possible and one of the things that was so much fun about shuffle.
I don't want to be that guy either, but do you have a source showing that people really did complain about this? I've heard it said so many times that they did, but I don't believe it. I think it's just an excuse for big corporations like Spotify and Apple to manipulate algorithms to deliberately promote certain artists. I don't believe it was ever well intentioned, and I resent that there's no feature for people who want "shuffle" to work like it should work -- in a completely random fashion. Or at least give us the option. The fact that there's not even a randomization option at all should make clear that this was not development that was done in good faith or for the benefit of the listener. They actually removed a feature in order to promote their corporate crap.
It's so obvious that Spotify is promoting certain artists. As soon as I launch the app, it's always the same shit on the front page. At this point, I could pretty well predict what major-label crap is in all those "recommended" playlists they create for me. It's so bad. Honestly, if it weren't so damn inconvenient to do so, I'd just rip songs from the CDs I buy from independent labels and put them on my phone. I'm pretty sure there are some apps that have a genuinely random shuffle. Just got to find one.
https://engineering.atspotify.com/2014/02/how-to-shuffle-songs/
Spotify themselves got that feedback that their truly random shuffle didn't feel random, so they changed it to an algorithm. And this is from 2014 when they made the switch, so they were only just diving into algorithmic promotion.
I don't disagree that Spotify now promotes certain artists and has really messed with their shuffle algorithms, but they left the true random behind because people complained about it.