You’re listening to music on shuffle, and an artist appears twice in a row. It feels like more than a coincidence – perhaps your music player is playing tricks on you, or has chosen favoured artists – ...

It's a problem many Spotify users know all too well: no matter how many times a large playlist gets shuffled, it always seems to pick out the same handful of songs to play first. While some listeners ...

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