I would also disagree to this statement. I didn’t have the popular tracks option enabled, but somehow a handful of songs were labeled as popular. Those same 5 tracks came up first during a shuffle 100% of the time. After I unmarked them as popular, (Plex Dance), they no longer come up first in the shuffle.
And before I removed and re-added them to my library, their play counts were neither higher nor lower than any other song in my library. There is no reason those 5 songs should have come up 100% of the time first. The only difference with those songs, were that they were labeled as “Popular”.
I tried it every different way possible. Popular tracks, and high rated tracks, always came up first., 100% of the time. Tried it from an Android platform and a Windows platform. Maybe it’s a platform issue?
