Can't even seek through songs.
this post was submitted on 17 Oct 2023
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Can you still not play a playlist in order on Android even with premium subscription. I cancelled my subscription when even viewing the playlist and tapping the first track started playback with shuffle turned on.
On android, have premium, use the app a good amount, never encountered the issue you are reporting.
When I first started with Premium, you could toggle shuffle mode on or off before hitting the play button. But then that went away and there was basically only a Shuffle button, so you had to do the sequence like here (from 2022)
https://www.drmare.com/spotify-music/play-spotify-album-in-order.html
but at first you didn't have to do this bit
And I think at that time the forums were saying it was only the Android app where you had to do this (and I want to say that desktop/web app were indeed not putting me through these shenanigans at that time, was a probably 4-5 years ago, maybe more). And then when I further had to start doing that 4th step of disabling shuffle in the now playing screen I had just had enough and cancelled.
Other posts from 2023 seem to indicate this is now the standard UX on all platforms
https://www.audkit.com/spotify-music/spotify-play-album-in-order.html
https://integraudio.com/play-songs-order-without-premium/
edit:
Here's a community thread going back to 2015 ("modo aleatorio" means "random mode") with commenters chiming in through late 2022.
https://community.spotify.com/t5/Android/Playing-albums-in-order/m-p/1262705
So I guess I may have my timelines a bit off, but I strongly remember the Play button originally having a little sub-button overlay you could tab to enable or disable shuffle before hitting the Play button proper.
Thanks. I'm genuinely curious about the UX that @StorminNorman has now. Premium users deserve a better experience.
Not normin but I've never had a problem either. Here's the screen I get when I open a playlist, can toggle between shuffle, smart shuffle and normal to the left of the play button.
Does yours look different?
Thanks! Glad to see they are no longer being complete idiots about it. I haven't looked at it since cancelling, but yeah it was very different. They had completely removed the control to enable or disable shuffle from this view, if you hit the play button it was going to shuffle, period. If you hit a track to start playback (in shuffle mode) on that track you had to then go to the now playing view and disable shuffle.
What a strange choice to make. I don't remember that ever being on mine but I'm not using it all that much so might have just not noticed to be fair.
Same here. Was surprised to read this comment, went to the Android app, played a few playlists. Shuffle is off by default, first song on a list starts playing. Switch it on, go to another playlist, it is still off by default. Is it some a/b testing by Spotify I am lucky not to be part of? Would certainly cancel my sub if that was the case.
I mean, there were quite a few elements of the ux I was mad about, like promoting stuff I'd never want to listen on the front page just because Spotify paid a gazillion to creators, but shuffle is not it.
You can pay a playlist in order on Android only if you Premium I believe.
I could not without a stupidly bad UX which was reportedly limited to Android while desktop/web/iOS were sane about it. I had been giving Spotify a try after Google squashed Play Music for YouTube Music and I canceled Premium and went to Google with YouTube Premium specifically over this issue.
From what ive seen it's not souch that Spotify doesn't allow you to do that, it's just that their app is developed by some junior devs and managed by managers who have no idea about what a good app is. The result is, well, Spotify. It sucks, really, but at least gives me the bare necessities