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Ben Smith_1
Trending Lyricist I
January 21, 2015

Request for feedback: Shuffle

  • January 21, 2015
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Hello. My name is Ben Smith and I head up Product Management for Experience, Software, and Developer Programs at Sonos.

I wanted to get more feedback from you all on your expectations for Shuffling tracks in your queue. I have reviewed the feedback on ask.sonos.com and received e-mails from a few of you (via our CEO John MacFarlane), but I wanted to get a better sense from those of you who use Shuffle, how your really want it to work.

When you select shuffle what do you want to happen? What don't you want to happen?

Thanks!

Ben
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      Stuart_52
      Lyricist I
      February 5, 2015
      Can I add my voice to the call for album shuffling! Get on it! 🙂
      Dave_124
      Lyricist I
      February 5, 2015
      If nothing else, if I hit shuffle, please do not start shuffle with the currently selected track (at least not every time), at the minute, if I queue an artists songs, then hit shuffle, it will always play the first item in the queue and then continue with a random track, either allow shuffle & queue, or have the shuffle button start with a random track not the currently selected one.
      Dave_13
      Trending Lyricist I
      February 5, 2015
      I think we can assume that we are being ignored. It's like the flurry of activity a year and a half or so ago. Nothing happened and everything went quiet again. There's no sign of any dialogue here.
      T00LF00L
      T00LF00L
      Prodigy I
      February 5, 2015
      Yeah but this time they started the dialogue
      I am just a worthless liar. I am just an imbecil.
      Ben Smith_1Author
      Trending Lyricist I
      February 5, 2015
      Not being ignored. Listening.
      Dave_13
      Trending Lyricist I
      February 5, 2015
      My apologies, Ben. Thank you. I look forward to being able to use the very feature that prompted me to spend a lot of money on the system several years ago 🙂
      Stuart_17
      Enthusiast II
      February 5, 2015
      Not being ignored. Listening.


      Great to hear Ben, but it would be even greater if we could get some initial feedback from you on what the next actions are here?  For example,   when are you planning to draw a line under this feedback and start scoping the work? 

      The cynic in me is slightly concerned that this request for feedback just gets left open for too long considering some of us have been waiting 2 years for this!!

      Thanks

      Stuart
      Paul Anderson_1
      Trending Lyricist I
      February 6, 2015
      Not being ignored. Listening.


      Hi Ben. I second Stuart's request for an initial response. It would be comforting to hear some progress is being made on this long overdue project.
      I'm sure that whatever is done it won't please everyone but does it have to be sorted out in one hit? Surely this feature could evolve from a basic as happens with most software functions?

      Regards,
      Paul
      Scott Thomas
      Lyricist I
      February 11, 2015
      Its so frustrating I'm sick of hearing the same songs in the same order over and over again. Give us a truly random playlist that shuffles the song differently each time you play the list and eliminates each song until the list is complete.
      Desmond Ho
      Lyricist I
      February 12, 2015
      Is there a way to have the songs fade away or an option to enable this like a cross fade when we manually change songs in the middle of a song? Kind of like a dj. So that there is no abrupt stop when we decide to change songs and there is a gradual transition. With such a large library of songs some people can be picky with their songs and there would be so many sudden abrupt stops in the music which just really isn't smooth and deserves a nice crossfire transition away
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