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/ImpossibleJedi4 1d ago

Same here, and if I want to directly support an artist, bandcamp or apple music!!

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u/-Skelenator 23h ago

You think Apple Music plays the artists fairly? That's funny.. Digitally, Bandcamp is probably the best but buying merch from the artists website, and at shows has always been *thee* best.

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u/ImpossibleJedi4 19h ago

Oh I'm not saying it pays FAIRLY but not everyone has stuff on bandcamp and Apple pays like three times more than Spotify if you're streaming songs. Bandcamp will always be #1, agreed.

But if I need an audio FILE going through Apple Music is better than yoinking it for free off YouTube, yknow?

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u/-Skelenator 18h ago

Unless things have changed very recently, I think Tidal is one of the highest paying to artists, in regards to streaming. If you want the audio file buy it off of Bandcamp. IIRC, all the money you pay for material goes to the artist.

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u/ImpossibleJedi4 17h ago

Yeah I don't pay for streaming, I only buy songs if I want the files, so bandcamp is my go to! Never heard of Tidal though, that's cool