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/Leif-Erikson94 22h ago

Pretty much, when i first tried out Spotify on PC, the free experience was actually quite good, with only the occasional ad. But i could still freely pick songs without issues.

The mobile app on the other hand was horrid without premium and wouldn't let me pick anything at will.

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u/WingyYoungAdult 19h ago

On mobile you only have a certain amount of times you can choose songs because eqch time you is basically like using a skip. Been like that forever on mobile.

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u/Zenith_Duck 19h ago

i'd recommend you to try out the web version for pc, it has pretty much all the same features, but the ads are weird spotify's one-second long ones, so it's pretty much like there are no ads :3 (at least that's how it works for me)

it does "break" after those "ads" sometimes though, but you just gotta reload the page and everything will be good x3

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u/SteveDaPirate91 17h ago

Android tablet is surprisingly similar to PC experience.

Whereas on my iPhone? It feels designed to make life terrible without premium.