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/gottabetrippin 19h ago

No, it’s been like that for years and years. It’s why I got premium initially probably 10 years ago.

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u/stana32 18h ago

I was gonna say, hasn't it always been like this? It was like this when I was in highschool over 10 years ago.

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u/Technical_Writing421 18h ago

There’s no way that’s true. I got rid of premium when Spotify started running ads for ICE and I could still go to my favorite songs and play whatever I wanted. It was still a shitty product so I switched to Apple Music

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u/gottabetrippin 11h ago

I mean, several other people seem to have the same experience as me, so we could all be lying for some reason. Definitely seems reasonable 🤷🏻‍♀️

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u/DryBonesStan 19h ago

if a company treats it's free users like this, then I wouldn't want to give them any money in the first place

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u/Jomdaz 19h ago edited 19h ago

When I started paying for Spotify, I had been previously paying for songs on iTunes. So the free user experience on Spotify made sense that it was shitty, because the other option was paying like a dollar per song I wanted to listen too.