Just because someone skips a track doesn't mean that track was wrong for that playlist. It just means the time was wrong for that track. The mood.

I don't know if anyone else has noticed; but "Shuffle" used to be a good thing! Now; it frequently just isn't good at it's job. There's no control over the "Randomness" of the shuffle anymore, and there's no way to turn off any "Algorithm" that promises it can pick the next song better than random shuffling can.

Sometimes that experience of a truly random or an algorithmic shuffle is good; and sometimes it delivers bad options, and being able to say "Nah, I'm just not into this track today, NEXT!" is something I regard as a fundamental right, and something that you too, should do. Skips shouldn't be precious actions. Your mental heath shouldn't be impacted by an unlucky shuffle, nor should your mood.

Music is a deep, and almost primal form of expression; and it can express many things. Sooo...Being able to skip the emotional equivalent of a 💩 pile of poo 💩 is actually pretty important...even if it doesn't 🌹 always (metaphorically) smell 🌸 like poo to you all the time.

On some days listening to a whole album start to finish just hits different

Is legit.

But, you kinda have to do one playthrough like that. You can have the playlist perfect in theory, but until you listen to it all the way through, you can't know that you got things the way you really want them. Quick skipping through is the best way to do that with the ability to keep track of what your impressions of the playlist are, rather than just vibing to single songs and missing the overall flow.

It's absurd absurd how much thought I've put into playlist creation and management lol.

I just put everything in a single list and shuffle all

I prefer to create dozens of playlists with between one and three songs. Trust me, there is a ton of overlap too.