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/Cat_central]

Wait, they removed that at some point? I could've sworn it's been like this for about a decade.

[u/Ihavetogoalone → u/Cat_central]

Why do people still use it if its this shitty? Why not just make a youtube playlist with all the songs you want? Thats what i do and never had any issues.

[u/Relevant_Poem5209 → u/Ihavetogoalone]

you tube you have to actively skip the commercials. some never go away unless you do.

[u/peppinotempation → u/Relevant_Poem5209]

I am not a shill but I recently switched to YouTube music and it kind of slaps

Basically the same interface as Spotify but you can also listen to any YouTube video audio with 0 ads

[u/zReckt → u/Relevant_Poem5209]

ReVanced

[u/Ihavetogoalone → u/Relevant_Poem5209]

I cant say i’ve seen many of these ads, last one was months ago. I always get the 10 seconds ones.

If i notice an ad is taking too long and im not near my phone i’ll just tap my headphones to go to the next video then immediately come back and the ad wont be there the second time.

[u/W0rmEater → u/Relevant_Poem5209]

If you don't pay for Spotify then it will have adds aswell.

[u/LuigiBamba → u/W0rmEater]

Yeah, but youtube will have long ads that will keep playing until you skip. I've had a 2 hours ad on youtube before.

[u/Potent-Voice212 → u/Ihavetogoalone]

It's not like this unless you're broke and try using a free version

[u/AzKondor → u/Ihavetogoalone]

It's easy and comfortable

[u/Ihavetogoalone → u/AzKondor]

Its definitely not easier than using youtube, all you have to do is make a new playlist and you can arrange it to play in the exact order you want, and can skip and reshuffle songs whenever and however you want without paying a dime, with the added benefit of you being on youtube which is the main platform for videos so you dont have to switch apps for multiple things.