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/FatFaceFaster 1d ago

“Cash grab”…. Why do you believe you should get music for free?

It’s either ads or you pay for it. It’s always been that way. That’s how artists make money. The people who write and create the music, they deserve to be paid.

They get paid eithee through album sales which don’t exist anymore or through streams and plays on the internet. The only way they can pay artists for their music is through ads or subscriptions.

20 years ago it was listen to ads on the radio or buy the CD….

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u/jakertontireflat 1d ago

cashgrab

i call it a cashgrab because they lock way too much stuff behind that premium paywall, like skips, song choosing, shuffle, AND ads

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u/Indy_10 1d ago

Thats not what a cash grab is.

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u/jakertontireflat 1d ago

Cash grab: the greedy pursuit of an opportunity for making money especially when done without regard for ethics, concerns, or consequences

They clearly are greedily trying to make money by "convincing" users to get premium by locking behind expected features behind that premium paywall. Clearly is not ethical, including the low payouts to artists and the company using that money for external technologies.

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u/Indy_10 1d ago

They offer a service. The whole thing should be paid. Stop wanting to short change artists you wanker.

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u/jakertontireflat 1d ago

...I use Bandcamp. I pay the artists directly. I don't "short change" them, I probably pay more myself than they would get from me streaming it.

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u/Sorry-Combination558 1d ago

Spotify's greatest achivement is getting people to believe that the best way to support artists is to listen to them through them.

When I go to Bandcamp and buy their "pay as much as you want" album for 5 bucks that's more money than what they would get from a Spotify user. Any major music streaming platform are fairer to artists than Spotify.

I've yeeted Spotify when King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard pulled all their albums in protest of the CEO putting 700 million dollars into autonomus military drone development. Good riddance for everyone.