You probably use your iPhone as a portable music player, which makes it especially surprising that the built-in Music app can be so hard to use. There's no better example of its unintuitive design ...

January 11, 2005: Steve Jobs introduces the iPod shuffle, an entry-level music player that lacks a display. The device randomly shuffles the audio files it holds, but lets users easily skip songs they ...

How the shuffle button came to define modern-day media consumption. How the shuffle button came to define modern-day media consumption. “Our art tells a story and our stories should be listened to as ...

Multiple Spotify users have reported that hitting the shuffle button tends to play the same few songs instead of actually shuffling the entire playlist. The issue has been around for years, but a ...

Spotify is testing a setting allowing users to fully disable Smart Shuffle across the app. Users frequently complain that Smart Shuffle repeats similar songs despite claims of daily refreshed ...