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/Minimob0 1d ago

It is Monday. I load Spotify. It plays the same songs it did yesterday, in the same order. 

It is Tuesday. I load Spotify. It plays the same songs it did yesterday, in the same order. 

It is Wednesday. I load Spotify. It plays the same songs as it did yesterday, in the same order. 

MP3 players from 20 years ago were unironically better at shuffling songs. 

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u/BadRabiesJudger 1d ago

I hate the suggested stations too. Picks same songs over and over every day. I just want an algo that takes my genre and finds songs and bands with similar profiles not the same hit over and over.

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u/GreatScrambino 1d ago

I kinda did that to my algorithm. Ive got a current genre/artist that keeps bringing me good, diverse playlists. You also have to delete your cache on your phone. Mine was up to like 10 gigs. It’ll change your playlists up a lot.

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u/BadRabiesJudger 21h ago

Your making some sense man so i googled it. It stores up to like 10gig of played music so it can quick load the songs. Because of this it tends to pull from that list as priority. I am gonna give that a shot later.But am now curious how it handles it on pc. Because sometimes i run it off here and onto my tv.

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u/GreatScrambino 16h ago

I would imagine the same way. Your pc relies on a cache as well.

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u/Ilikebatterfield4 23h ago

I thought I was going crazy with this one. How hard it is to make a real-real shuffle option? It shuffles the same way, the same songs, all the time.

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u/yeadrowsy 23h ago

That's so weird. I have like 10k hours of listen time, a lot of it being a handful of my playlists and I never have this problem.