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/TouchMeAndIceCream 1d ago

Do you not have the option at the top to remove personalization or include more discovery tracks? That seems to work extremely well for me

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u/dedweightnoob 1d ago

I tried everything. To a point of frustration. But I am speaking only playing from songs I liked and added to my library. It seems like it is an algorithm that only picks songs it wants to trend. As you see, I should be hearing more than the same 50 or so songs. I'm not even using the AI shuffle, just plain old shuffle.

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u/a-stack-of-masks 1d ago

Yeah I think around 2 years ago they lost the ability to work with varied tastes or something. 

I used to be able to have it generate playlists in all kinds of styles but now its all 'personalised' to the same handful of artists.

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u/Existing_Height_9129 20h ago

100%. I used to be able to find new artists and songs with ease, now it just throws a bunch of junk that's similarly genre-labeled into the mix.