Adele Gets Spotify to Disable Auto-Shuffle

why was that ever the default? i don't use spotify so i had no idea. seems stupid as hell.

 

I imagine it had to do with the heavy favoring of playlists as the method of choice for most of their users. I did always find it odd on albums though. I'm a album front-to-back type of listener though.

 

I don't think it is on by default

 

Thanks, now let's talk about why all my vinyl pressings keep getting delayed because they are prioritizing Adele's album instead

 

I’ve never had an album auto shuffle for me, and I don’t remember ever changing the setting

 

That answer is pretty self explanatory haha. They care much more about Adele and the money she brings in then the limited 300 pressing of Mom Jeans, Senses Fail, or any other niche artist.

 

I think albums were only on auto-shuffle with the free version of Spotify.

 

Yep that + the annoying amount of ads made me switch to the Premium version.

 

Nope. I pay and it was always like that.

 

It was. The only way I could play an album from beginning to end was by clicking track one and letting it play vs just clicking the play button at the top.

 

Ah, I definitely misunderstood.

I just assumed that big green play button was specifically for people who wanted to start playing an album on shuffle. Kind of weird that can’t be done now.

 

I feel like if they want to have shuffle as an option it should be a separate button next to the play button. Similar to how it used to be (For me shuffle was a smaller button on top of the bottom of the play button) but two totally separate buttons. But I like how it just starts the album now. But I’ve always been a full album listener. But for me it wasn’t that big of a deal once I figured out that all I had to do was click track one…!

 

Oh darn, I thought this was going to solve my issue where I accidentally shuffle new albums all the time, but I pick the first song in an album and shuffle happens to be on and doesn’t turn itself off as opposed to me hitting the big play button at the top so I did it again today

 

I see. I never use that button for albums I guess.

 

Yeah, and once I figured it out it didn’t really matter that much. I’ll probably keep doing it the way I’ve always done (click track one) out of habit!

 

I was a bit confused when my wife told me this news - and despite being a front-to-back listener myself, still thought it was a bit pretentious to require that. I realize my confusion was derived from always just clicking track 1 (like others have said), and not knowing it was just the shuffle play button being changed, and not shuffle listening being banned all together.

 

I'd add, now looking at the app, I'm grateful the shuffle play button has been replaced by a regular play button for any and all albums (if it wasn't before?).