It’s important to get “shuffle” right up front. “Alexa/OK Google, shuffle my playlist from Spotify.” To get a playlist properly shuffled, you have to say: Otherwise, you’ll find the speaker starts from the first song added to the playlist and works its way through in chronological order. If you want Alexa or Google Home devices to shuffle a playlist, you have to be precise with the terminology you use. Be specific with Spotify-enabled smart speakers And as the playlist grows and morphs, so does the Playlist Radio. Better still, a unique playlist is generated every time you select that Radio option, so you can keep getting fresh music from that same playlist. This will produce a bespoke playlist of songs that are in the same ballpark as the ones you already like. Select a playlist and then click the three-dots menu button and select Go To Playlist Radio.

Once you’ve got a few decent playlists curated, you can use these to feed you new music that is aligned to your tastes. When Spotify sees songs added to playlists it seems to treat that in much the same way as a Like, giving you the best of both worlds - properly curated playlists and a well-trained Spotify. I’ve continued to use that playlist to add songs I like from a variety of genres, while also building more genre-specific playlists. Years ago, before the Like button was introduced, Spotify had a star button, which used to add that song or album to a playlist called Starred.

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