• Spotify has been building new options for controlling randomness during shuffle playback. • Listeners will have the option for random playback, irrespective of what was played before. • They’ll also be able to reduce repeats, by taking recently played tracks out of the running.

People have a problem with randomness. We don’t understand it, we have trouble recognizing it, and we often don’t even use the right words to describe it (no, your roommate’s friend’s dog walker is not a “random” addition to your party — they are there expressly because of those existing relationships). This is as true as ever when we’re talking about shuffling a media playlist. While a capital-r random order could include every song alphabetically, the same song over and over again, or not even change the pl

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