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How to shuffle songs? - Spotify Engineering
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Spotify's shuffle technique: play the same 5 or 6 songs in a row on a given playlist every time you play it on shuffle despite the literal hundreds of ither songs to pick from
I'm pretty sure a lot of that is based on what is cached locally. I remember reading something about it.
Finding & clearing the local cache should fix it.
Saves them a ton of bandwidth I guess.
saving bandwidth at cost of poor experience. is this different for paid users ?