Request for feedback: Shuffle

wow 
Wait until you set a playlist for alarm with your 1600 songs and get woken by the same music every day...

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haha yeah we scrapped the alarm ages ago.

about a year ago I decided to stop using the sonos shuffle and copy my spotify playlist into a randomizer, then into a new playlist and playing that in sonos. repeated the process when we finished all 1600

then last week i decided to go back to using the shuffle button..... i've changed my mind 🙂

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@jay.shellcrass

Try turning off the repeat function.  With only shuffle on and not repeat, each song in your queue will play once.  With repeat on, you'll potentially hear songs play multiple times.  

wow 
repeat is not on so your comment is incorrect

wow 
That may be true John, but the songs will always play IN THE SAME ORDER when on shuffle, unless you start from a different song each time. Hence the whole thread.

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@Edward - this is true (as you say, hence the reason for this thread).  The shuffle function operates by shuffling the songs in the queue, once shuffled the songs will always play in the same order.  You can obtain a different order by toggling shuffle or by clearing your queue.

wow 
Your statement about "repeat function" is false.  Shouldn't have to hit shuffle every time I play the que.

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If I re-shuffle the queue then I will end up potentially with the same songs in my queue. It has been years. lets get something done.

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@Scott

The way shuffle works on Sonos is that hitting shuffle will randomly order all the tracks you have in the queue. Each track will play once, in that shuffled order, and then at the end playback will stop.  With repeat on as well, that same ordering of shuffled tracks in the queue will loop.

What's confusing about all this is that the shuffled order isn't shown in the queue itself, the queue still shows you the normal ordering.  Does this explanation make sense?  You can verify it on your own system.

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@Duncan Colby

You'll always end up with the same songs in the queue (until you remove them or add different ones).  When you toggle shuffle (off and on again), you'll end up with a different shuffled order of those same tracks.  

Try it - add an album to your queue and then hit shuffle.  Start from the first track, and skip through a few songs. Then restart from the first track and skip a few times more.  It's the same order because the shuffle function is creating a new ordering of the queue.  

Now toggle shuffle and repeat the above.  You'll end up with a different shuffled order of the same tracks.