Spotify Shuffle

[bedes]

I do a thing on my journal called "YouTube Sunday Spotlight", where I recommend a YouTube video essay that I watched that week! I thought this might fit well into this community, so here's a video I've highlighted!

This is all about Spotify's playlists and shuffle mode, and why it feels like it's never actually randomized. This question drove me up the wall whenever I listened to Spotify, so this video answered a ton of my questions.

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[bedes]

(This was originally a longer post with 4 recs, which is why there are so many tags, but I had to cut it down to one because YouTube embeds and cut tags apparently do NOT get along. I tried deleting the tags that aren't relevant, but I don't have permission to. Sorry mods!)

[honigfrosch]

Did you happen to use the Rich Text Editor? I am totally asking this for a friend and not because I have to re-edit my post twenty times whenever I embed something in RTE before switching back to HTML.

[bedes]

I used HTML actually! I don't know why it kept being very weird and finicky

[honigfrosch]

Let's hope it's just a case of 😱 The Mondays 💀

[supermario128]

Yeeaahhh, this was a huge factor for my dropping Spotify (that and the ads and not being able to skip the same songs that were constantly being fed to me).

Anyway, interesting vid; I like the YouTuber’s presentation. Also a bit funny for them to go, “The algorithm brought you here,” when it was actually this, lol.