Shuffle in Spotify for Tesla is playing the same “random” sequence every day

[mr-dmitry]

Every day, Spotify for Tesla starts playing the same shuffled sequence of songs in a large playlist. Basically, I’m listening to the same several songs in a playlist of thousands of songs all the time. It doesn’t help to turn off and turn on Shuffle - this works only once, and then the original ‘random’ order restores next day. It doesn’t help to restart or update the car. The ‘random’ order remains the same anyway. Tesla Service is saying ‘works as expected’ on any reported software issues. Is there a workaround that we can use until the issue is fixed?

Also reported this issue to Spotify: Shuffle in Spotify for Tesla is playing the same “random” sequence every day

Tried to switch to Apple Music - and it was even worse. See Is there a workaround for Apple Music playing only the first 100 songs in the Library or a playlist when shuffled?

 

[drjjr]

I feel like it's gotten worse in the past week or so. I can pick a starting track with shuffle on and it seems like it plays a few "random" songs and then it reverts back to a sequence of songs that it will always go back to. Each playlist seems to have its own fixed "random" song order. This was not always the case.

 

[mr-dmitry]

It plays one song from the previous session, and then it plays the same "random" sequence exactly - song by song.

 

[mr-dmitry]

A direct link to the message on the Spotify forum: Re: Shuffle in Spotify for Tesla is producing the same “random” order every day (this is different from the one posted above).

 

[drjjr]

I use Spotify at home and it doesn't have the same problem. Do you see Spotify behave this way elsewhere?
It could be Tesla-specific and I don't think Spotify writes the Tesla app. I could be wrong about this.

 

[mr-dmitry]

This happens only in Tesla. Tesla does write their Spotify app. But if the issue is in the API, then this is Spotify's responsibility. Unfortunately, they might just keep pointing to each other instead of working on a fix...