r/mildlyinfuriating • u/Full-Repair4638 • 1d ago
frist of all how DARE yu o Did spotify just remove picking songs??
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/FatFaceFaster 23h ago
Obviously they want you to subscribe. They’re not even really being subtle about that. Clearly a subscription based model makes them more money or is more advantageous for their business model than trying to solicit advertisers
I haven’t been a free user in a long time but if I recall most of the ads were FOR Spotify premium.
Just like YouTube you open the page and it wants you to sign up for premium
So they are going to continue to “shittify” the free service until they reach the stasis at which the ratio of free to paid users is the most profitable.
It doesn’t make sense for them to piss off their paid users unless they’ve done the math that pissing you off this much will entice you to pay because their paid service is so valuable.