Shuffling songs used to be easy. Photo: Charlie Sorrel/Cult of Mac This may seem like a frivolous how-to. But seeing as I couldn’t work out how to switch off shuffle Apple Music tracks on my iPhone in ...

Spotify’s announcement of a new “fewer repeats” shuffle feature has users celebrating—and joking that the company finally admitted its old shuffle was never truly random. Under the old shuffle logic, ...

Spotify's shuffle algorithm manipulates song order for engagement, not true randomness, using scoring systems that prioritize ...

How CDs, an iPod shuffle and the five-album rule really got me listening to music again rather than endlessly hopping between ...

You know how the iPod shuffle doesn’t really have a lot of space in it? Well, Apple put in a nice feature that down-converts your high bitrate music to a shuffle friendly 128 kbps on the fly. This ...