Ironically, I'm pretty sure you're thinking of this article by a Spotify engineer that has since been taken down: https://web.archive.org/web/20230410041435/ht

Ironically, I'm pretty sure you're thinking of this article by a Spotify engineer that has since been taken down: https://web.archive.org/web/20230410041435/https://engineering.atspotify.com/2014/02/how-to-shuffle-songs/ https://web.archive.org/web/20230410041435/https://engineeri... EDIT: > We noticed some users complaining about our shuffling algorithm playing a few songs from the same artist right after each other. ... > Since the Spotify service launched, we used Fisher-Yates shuffle to generate a perfectly random shuffling of a playlist. ... > The algorithm is now rolled out to everyone using our desktop client and other clients will follow soon. Everything old is new again.