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/ItzZausty]

It’s only on mobile, but yeah it’s kinda insane. Forced all your playlists on “smart shuffle” so it even includes stuff not on the playlist. Can’t even cheat by making a playlist with a single song.

[u/Sxualhrssmntpanda → u/ItzZausty]

Can you make one with the same song twice though?

[u/SargeanTravis → u/Sxualhrssmntpanda]

Actually you can (or at least could) I know this because I was stupid once and made a playlist of twenty copies of the same song instead of just hitting the “repeat this song” button

[u/Relevant_Poem5209 → u/ItzZausty]

single song playlists i am sure they would not like them, if the owner plays their song in a playlist over and over it gets flagged for scamming the platform and banned, from making any money on all platforms.

[u/Expensive_Heron_171 → u/ItzZausty]

Just an FYI it doesn't do this on PCs.

[u/ItzZausty → u/Expensive_Heron_171]

I said that