Amazon Music Playing entire library shuffled

Bismarck

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I am an Amazon Music Unlimited user, which I use almost exclusively as a source for my WiiM devices.
In Amazon Music Unlimited I have a library containing about 3,000 tracks.
I have noticed that when I ask the WiiM devices to play this library in shuffle mode, they tend to play more or less the same tracks each time, in a number that is much smaller than the total number of tracks in the entire library.
Is there a way to have ALL the tracks in my library played in random order?
 
I think this is a restriction in the Amazon Music API - I think the playlist might be constrained to 500, if not a smaller number of tracks. I experience the same using Amazon Music in my car where playlist playback can be almost infuriating - for example, if I ask it to resume playback of a playlist, or even an artist station, after stopping and restarting the car later, it always restarts at the start of the playlist and replayed the tracks in the same shuffle order as before. I’m sure I’ve seen similar mentioned in Amazon Music forums over the years :(
 
I think this is a restriction in the Amazon Music API - I think the playlist might be constrained to 500, if not a smaller number of tracks. I experience the same using Amazon Music in my car where playlist playback can be almost infuriating - for example, if I ask it to resume playback of a playlist, or even an artist station, after stopping and restarting the car later, it always restarts at the start of the playlist and replayed the tracks in the same shuffle order as before. I’m sure I’ve seen similar mentioned in Amazon Music forums over the years :(
Thank you very much.
Do you think casting from the Amazon Music IOS app (and afterwards closing it) can solve the problem?
 
Thank you very much.
Do you think casting from the Amazon Music IOS app (and afterwards closing it) can solve the problem?
I don’t think so unfortunately, it seems to be an issue even with that as per my car playback example, and for that matter Alexa use as well. The AI response to googling “Amazon music has difficulty shuffling large playlists” suggests that 300-500 (or even lower) is about as much as it can handle.
 
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