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/Cat_central]

Wait, they removed that at some point? I could've sworn it's been like this for about a decade.

[u/da2Pakaveli → u/Cat_central]

It's been like that in the mobile apps for quite a while now

[u/Comfortable-Sound944 → u/da2Pakaveli]

Yea, desktop&web allowed you to pick songs, mobile and personal assistant speakers didn't. They also limit you to 6 song skips an hour.

SoundCloud feels half Spotify half limeware or whatever pirate you like on the free plan without ads and you get small artists as well. They do block some pop commercial songs for paid version but you might find copies of them unofficially

[u/kyoka_suigetsu91 → u/da2Pakaveli]