Most annoying feature ever

I swear they haven't added a single fucking feature that is worth anything. Every single thing they do makes their product worse.

I stopped paying for and using spotify when they a. renewed their contract with Joe Rogan b. changed their music payment policy so that if you aren't trending, you make no money.

Fuck Spotify.

Don’t use Spotify. Use Tidal, Apple Music, or just pirate and support authors other ways.

And don't forget that Spotify can only handle around 150 songs in the queue. It doesn't matter how big a playlist is, it will start repeat after a while. The proposed solution by spotify itself is to just deactivate shuffle and start on different songs in large playlist. It's absolutely ridiculous. It bothers thousands of people but they won't fix it. https://community.spotify.com/t5/Live-Ideas/All-Platforms-Option-to-have-a-true-shuffle/idi-p/4880594

Alternative:

Your whole queue is gone and I'll just stop playing after this song

I once got a message from spotify saying congratulations, your musical taste is unique, you haven't liked a single song we have recommended. They haven't stopped trying though.

I gave up Spotify partly because they support Joe Rogan, but also because I mostly listen to classical music, and they kept shuffling in Britney Spears.

Fuck Spotify. You're better off - in every way - pirating and buying one album a year

I feel like I'm the only one around here who likes the Spotify recommendations. I've gotten so many bangers that fit my various little niche genre tastes.

Spotify erased my precisely curated list because I'm Russian and this somehow helps to stop the war in Ukraine

Weird. I got noone telling me to listen vinyl on a hand driven Grammophone right now

Why is Spotify's shuffle so abysmally awful? It's nigh on useless

Hot take but hasn't been a problem for me. Like, the feature stays off until I turn it on again, and I only turn it on when I'm trying to expand a playlist.

I use Spotify for discovering new songs, mostly for adding to the DJ arsenal. I listen to a lot of music. Enough that I make like 15-20ish playlists a year for various subgenres of tunes either released or discovered that year.

Since I compartmentalize my genres so methodically, smart recommendations tend to be on the money and more of what I'm looking for. But again, when I just wanna hear what I've assembled I just leave it off -- never on unless I turn it on.

Definitely been eyeballing alternatives though, since Spotty is getting deeper into their enshitty arc.

I hate that stupid fucking smart shuffle, I have a playlist with 500+ songs but it only wants to play the first 20

Song quality is terrible. The features are lacking and rarely useful. Now they have increased the rates and take away car play. I left when I realized my top artists and songs were the same every year. Much better to buy the songs when the quality is way better and I actually own the media

It sounds like it would be nice, but it's worse than the non-AI system it used before. At least before it mostly stayed within the same vibe. With the AI shuffle, it just feels completely random. It doesn't even attempt to stay within a genre. I used it all of 20 minutes when it first came out and then turned it off and never touched it again.

Also, they'll probably kill the Car Thing permanently soon. Another bad move.

Lidarr + Jellyfin + Finamp... Need I say more?

Oh, it's Spoofy.

I use Spotify a lot but have zero clue what smart shuffle is

used spotify for 10 mins, got tired of it. just use simpmusic from f-droid ¯_(ツ)_/¯

I hate how when trying to add a song to my playlist not knowing if I already have it in my playlist, Spotify web UI sometimes successfully detects duplicate songs but most of the time doesn't. It's very inconsistent and I can't figure out why other than them maybe A/B testing features?

Gooby plz

ViMusic

Spotify pushed me to buy an old iPod and upgrade it to flash memory and a new battery. Sweet Sweet control baby

Interesting

I've actually been enjoying it. I've also had the same Spotify account since I was like 12 so they got enough data on me to give me decent recommendations

I made the mistake of telling YouTube to download songs it "thinks" i would like. My library is now filled with music I WILL NEVER LISTEN TO. And it's going to take forever to clean it up.

It doesn't even let me play the song I'm asking it to play if I'm using the free version.

"Nah, here's a song that's similar to it or something from the same artist, but nuh uh uh, you can only skip 6 times an hour, and you can't go back"

Fuck you, Spotify.