Can’t even seek through songs.

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      When I first started with Premium, you could toggle shuffle mode on or off before hitting the play button. But then that went away and there was basically only a Shuffle button, so you had to do the sequence like here (from 2022)

      https://www.drmare.com/spotify-music/play-spotify-album-in-order.html

      but at first you didn’t have to do this bit

      Step 4. Open the “Now Playing” page and turn off the “Shuffle” button.

      And I think at that time the forums were saying it was only the Android app where you had to do this (and I want to say that desktop/web app were indeed not putting me through these shenanigans at that time, was a probably 4-5 years ago, maybe more). And then when I further had to start doing that 4th step of disabling shuffle in the now playing screen I had just had enough and cancelled.

      Other posts from 2023 seem to indicate this is now the standard UX on all platforms

      https://www.audkit.com/spotify-music/spotify-play-album-in-order.html
      https://integraudio.com/play-songs-order-without-premium/

      edit:

      Here’s a community thread going back to 2015 (“modo aleatorio” means “random mode”) with commenters chiming in through late 2022.

      https://community.spotify.com/t5/Android/Playing-albums-in-order/m-p/1262705

      So I guess I may have my timelines a bit off, but I strongly remember the Play button originally having a little sub-button overlay you could tab to enable or disable shuffle before hitting the Play button proper.

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          Thanks. I’m genuinely curious about the UX that @StorminNorman has now. Premium users deserve a better experience.

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            Not normin but I’ve never had a problem either. Here’s the screen I get when I open a playlist, can toggle between shuffle, smart shuffle and normal to the left of the play button.

            Does yours look different?

            my Spotify playlist screen

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              Thanks! Glad to see they are no longer being complete idiots about it. I haven’t looked at it since cancelling, but yeah it was very different. They had completely removed the control to enable or disable shuffle from this view, if you hit the play button it was going to shuffle, period. If you hit a track to start playback (in shuffle mode) on that track you had to then go to the now playing view and disable shuffle.

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                What a strange choice to make. I don’t remember that ever being on mine but I’m not using it all that much so might have just not noticed to be fair.

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      Same here. Was surprised to read this comment, went to the Android app, played a few playlists. Shuffle is off by default, first song on a list starts playing. Switch it on, go to another playlist, it is still off by default. Is it some a/b testing by Spotify I am lucky not to be part of? Would certainly cancel my sub if that was the case.

      I mean, there were quite a few elements of the ux I was mad about, like promoting stuff I’d never want to listen on the front page just because Spotify paid a gazillion to creators, but shuffle is not it.