It doesn’t seem very random to me. What user “vodka” said might be true. Whatever, I can deal with that. What really grinds my gears is that Spotify frequenty turns on shuffle when I want it off, and it frequently switches to “smart shuffle” when I want regular shuffle. “Smart shuffle” will mix in songs that it thinks you might want to hear. I can’t tell you how many times I’ve turned off shuffle without having turned it on. I assume they have some competent people working at Spotify so I can’t imagine how they could have let it get to this state.

I heard they’ve fixed it, but it used to be limited to 100 songs, and it was a simple re-order and not actually random. It’d always put tracks in the same order (unless you’ve changed something in the first 100 tracks since last time)

You’d have a 300 song playlist, hit shuffle, and it’d “shuffle” the same 100 songs in the same order, but start at a different point every time.

Yeah, the only time I’ve ever heard the difference in audio quality between flac and 320mp3 is when I’ve been trying to sample parts of songs in Ableton, adjusting the bpm and doing some warping, and you get artifacts. When I listen to music, I have a nice system at home, and I cannot tell the difference. And maybe it’s me, but beyond 20khz basically doesn’t exist.

Thank you, much appreciated