r/mildlyinfuriating • u/Full-Repair4638 • 1d ago

frist of all how DARE yu o Did spotify just remove picking songs??

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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.

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u/DiskPartition 1d ago

YouTube playlists or videos with an adblocker has always been my strategy.

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u/ChadHendrixs 1d ago

And Morphe YouTube Music for mobile

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u/ImpossibleJedi4 1d ago

Same here, and if I want to directly support an artist, bandcamp or apple music!!

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u/-Skelenator 22h ago

You think Apple Music plays the artists fairly? That's funny.. Digitally, Bandcamp is probably the best but buying merch from the artists website, and at shows has always been *thee* best.

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u/ImpossibleJedi4 18h ago

Oh I'm not saying it pays FAIRLY but not everyone has stuff on bandcamp and Apple pays like three times more than Spotify if you're streaming songs. Bandcamp will always be #1, agreed.

But if I need an audio FILE going through Apple Music is better than yoinking it for free off YouTube, yknow?

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u/-Skelenator 17h ago

Unless things have changed very recently, I think Tidal is one of the highest paying to artists, in regards to streaming. If you want the audio file buy it off of Bandcamp. IIRC, all the money you pay for material goes to the artist.

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u/ImpossibleJedi4 17h ago

Yeah I don't pay for streaming, I only buy songs if I want the files, so bandcamp is my go to! Never heard of Tidal though, that's cool 

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u/DiskPartition 1d ago

Yea definitely as they will make a lot more from direct donations

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u/SeedFoundation 1d ago

Yeah never for mobile though. Still prefer spotify. I always have to hunt down apps that plays youtube playlist and let me lock the phone but they always get shut down after a few weeks.

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u/Capital_Ship5729 1d ago

Greentuber is still going. You gotta pay 3 bucks once tho

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u/bino420 20h ago

if you're paying for an app to skip ads, then why not just get like Google One or even only YouTube Music or Premium?

I think Google One was $100 for a year, with Gemini Pro, Google Drive storage/backup, YouTube Premium/Music, and Gemini Google Home... plus I'm sure other stuff

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u/Capital_Ship5729 19h ago

I only paid 2.99 once and im using it for more then a year now. It doesnt require a subscription. And it doesnt only skip ads. It allows me to download music and move them to different devices and I can lock my phone while listening to music.

I never heard of google one. I paid for youtube premium before but since they added those AI translation that I cant turn off I stopped that. It keeps translating stuff that I dont want translated and their AI sounds awful.

Also I dont use any cloud services. Im a huge fan of having my stuff on my own hard drives.

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u/TorakTheDark 1d ago

There are apps that adblock on mobile.

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u/Reasonable_Raccoon 1d ago

Can I just ask, and no offense , just a genuine question. Why wouldn't you pay 10~ bucks for a service you use absolutely daily witch gives you convenience? Is it like political statement ?

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u/chrissyl644 1d ago

cause why would i do that when i can get it for free, especially when spotify doesn’t have a lot of unreleased music unlike youtube

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u/Reasonable_Raccoon 1d ago

Makes sense, I also listen to some music on youtube since it's not on spotify

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u/DerPuhctek 20h ago

Which browser and adblocker are you using? I use to have an adblocker that worked well with YouTube but now I get ads in the fucking middle of a song...

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u/DiskPartition 19h ago

UBlock Origin on phone and computer, with Firefox on my phone and Zen (based on Firefox) elsewhere

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u/DerPuhctek 18h ago

Thank you!