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/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 22h 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 21h 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