How to actually shuffle songs on Spotify

How to actually shuffle songs on Spotify - Ubuntu Desktop App

So I am a big fan of Spotify for various reasons. However, one thing that always confused me was how such a great product can have such a shabby shuffle mechanism.

Well, looks like I ( as well as plenty of people across the globe) are doing it wrong or atleast I have some steps I can use to workaround this issue.

Here is what we do when we start a playlist.

Choose Playlist
Click on 'Play'
Press the 'Shuffle' button and expect it to 'Shuffle' and play songs.

There is actually one more thing we have to do. Go to 'Queue' once the playlist starts playing. Press 'Shuffle' and see the songs shuffle in the queue. If you feel you haven't shuffled enough you can press 'shuffle' a couple of times and you will see a different sequence each time.

Enjoy Shuffling!

I tried this on my Ubuntu 20 with Spotify 1.1 Desktop App, but it will be same for any browser based Spotify as well.

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