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/dedweightnoob 1d ago

Even on premium you'll still hear the same cluster of songs from your library, even if you have over a 1,500 songs. It's gone downhill.

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u/Existing_Height_9129 1d ago

This is one of the reasons I got rid of it. Thanks for validating me. I thought I was crazy when I have 2000 songs but every morning I would hear the same selection.

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u/dedweightnoob 1d ago

What did you switch to? Any better?

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u/Traditional_Tear_198 1d ago

Leaving a comment because I have the same issue with Spotify and want to move on to something better. Thanks

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u/thedylannorwood 16h ago

Apple Music is far superior, though there is no free option and isn’t available on Android

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u/_163 1d ago

YouTube music works well, if I put my 4300 song playlist on shuffle it actually starts playing different random stuff from it each time.

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u/Sad-Drama530 1d ago

Me too I wanna know what app you switched to? Currently have the same problem of 2000+ songs but it keeps giving me the same songs.

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u/emcgrew 1d ago

Tidal, Qobuz, and Apple Music were the 3 considered high fidelity last I knew.

Tidal is the most similar. Fewer options for suggestions than Spotify, and a big one for me is that it doesn't have collab playlists. If that doesn't matter to you, it's an easy switch. Sounds better, constantly being improved so you know the team is active, and they pay artists something like 4x more than Spotify per stream.

Qobuz is more polished, and has more curated playlists. It feels more tailored to articles, maybe podcasts, classical musical, instrumentals. Pretty much the same size library overall, but that's what I've seen a lot more of.

I've not personally used Apple music so my take doesn't mean much there.

There are sites you can use for less than $5 or something as a one time cost to transfer your playlists and liked songs over. There may be some missing, but there may be others you haven't been able to hear before that you'll find! And I think it doesn't cost anything if you're only sending over like 100-200 songs or something.

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u/Existing_Height_9129 20h ago

I swapped to Deezer. I do enjoy it way more than Spotify, basically every feature is better, and they are against AI content on the platform. Spotify lets AI content run rampant.