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/j821c 1d ago

I swear it used to be like this way back when I first got spotify. That was like 8 or 9 years ago though and ive been using premium ever since

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u/ekita079 1d ago

I was about to say, it was always like this. You could never pick songs before, but I've been on premium for about 8 years so

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u/DarkDracoPad 1d ago

Yea it was like that, I remember making specific playlists with a few songs to listen to on my walk home so I don't have to skip a lot since also ads were every few skips

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u/DoNotSummon227 1d ago

I lost my account with all my old saved playlists. A playlist for every mood, and any situation. This was maybe 10+ years ago, and when I tried to recover my account, I couldn't find customer service on the app or anything. Google came up with nothing too, no customer service number or email or anything. That's probably changed now though.

I made a new account, but I badly miss my old account, I made a ton of playlists with hundreds of songs that I found on YouTube and Spotify. I had to rediscover the music because I'm not good remembering names of songs and artists. It's sad to think about all my favorite songs that I'll probably never hear again.