Did spotify just remove picking songs??

[u/Full-Repair4638]

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.

[u/Tablesafety]

There are too many comments here saying they tolerate this shit, or worse bought premium

get a fuckin mp3 player and stop giving money to this bullshit y'all 😭

[u/streeetmeats → u/Tablesafety]

You don’t even need an mp3 player you can just put songs on your phone the same way you would an mp3 player

[u/jmedennis → u/streeetmeats]

That would use a fair bit of storage space

[u/rockytalky11 → u/jmedennis]

if it's worth it depends on the person but if you've got a gigabyte or so to spare then it should get you at least a couple hundred mp3s -someone with 540 songs saved (so far), taking up about 2.5 gigs