They use some special shuffle algorithm that (they claim) weighs the songs based on how recently they were played, but you can change it in settings somewhere for true random
Yeah but even when you do that, the shuffle is still garbage. What i think is happening is that they’re loading the first X entries in the Playlist and passing that to the (bad) shuffle algorithm instead of passing the whole Playlist first. Then when it gets towards the end of X, it does the same thing with the next chunk. I can’t imagine that it saves that much money but it tracks with both what I see and the general trends of enshitification
They use some special shuffle algorithm that (they claim) weighs the songs based on how recently they were played, but you can change it in settings somewhere for true random
Yeah but even when you do that, the shuffle is still garbage. What i think is happening is that they’re loading the first X entries in the Playlist and passing that to the (bad) shuffle algorithm instead of passing the whole Playlist first. Then when it gets towards the end of X, it does the same thing with the next chunk. I can’t imagine that it saves that much money but it tracks with both what I see and the general trends of enshitification