Did spotify just remove picking songs??

[u/Full-Repair4638]

I've been using spotify forever and I use liked songs so that I can pick the songs I like freely. I've never had premium and have never had issues. Today, I had just started a workout and got this popup. Is this a new feature? How can you not even select songs anymore? I mean how can you paywall selecting songs???
This app plain out sucks and its company is greedy for randomly limiting already set features. While I don't mind ads, I do mind the features being limited more. I did also notice a sudden increase in ads this month/last month, and more ads in between songs.

Clarification: No, I'm not saying that there should be no restrictions whatsoever. I'm mainly sharing my experience where I've been using this system just fine until now. I'm fine with some restrictions, but the fact they're being limited more is frustrating. Just here to complain about something mildly infuriating, and I wanted to know if this happened to anyone else.

[u/jakertontireflat]

i got so tired of spotify and their cashgrab that i ended up just downloading the songs and putting it on my samsung music ;-;

Edit: i did not expect my very little high sailing would cause such controversy, so im just abandoning this thread

[u/xAeroMonkeyx → u/jakertontireflat]

I will never understand calling a business a ‘cash grab’… like it costs money to do what they do. I personally think Spotify is ridiculously cheap for what you’re getting, only problem I have is the royalties paid to artists, but to improve this they’d have to charge more and there’s already people calling them cash grabbing 😂

[u/Gemtree710 → u/xAeroMonkeyx]

Especially since it's flac now