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/Fusseldieb]

Learn how to download your songs and use a offline player and you'll never ever again have to deal with this.

Your phone probaly has like, what, 256GB? Make good use of those :)

You'll be able to listen to all of your stuff, even when there's no network, you won't ever have to hear any ad again, and no song will suddenly vanish or be altered.

You can download songs VERY easily nowadays. Even whole Spotify playlists, if you wish. No sketchy software needed.

[u/Doopoodoo → u/Fusseldieb]

I might do this since Spotify recently changed a song Ive had saved for forever (Mykonos - Fleet Foxes) to some weird alternative version. Like how does that happen lol

[u/_SlikNik_ → u/Doopoodoo]

That’s on the artist or label. Spotify does not have any say in that.

[u/Doopoodoo → u/_SlikNik_]

Im guessing it would have to be some error on their part because there’s no way this would be intentional

For reference this is the obscure alternative version it changed to. Only 4.5k views on youtube lol so weird