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[–] ZooGuru@lemmy.world 58 points 1 year ago (3 children)

What features have been removed from Spotify?

[–] Neato@kbin.social 41 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Nothing if you're a premium user. Being able to pick songs on Free I think.

[–] Kusimulkku@lemm.ee 9 points 1 year ago

Being able to pick songs

Christ

[–] deweydecibel@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago

Plenty of things have been removed from Spotify or just bastardized over the years.

The app is so much less useful overall, so many controls are just gone. It's exhibit A for the dumbing down of modern apps. It went from being mature software designed to give users tools to control their experiences to a ranch designed solely to corral users into singular usage patterns.

[–] fushi01@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

and scrub through the song and rewind

[–] The_Picard_Maneuver@lemmy.world 22 points 1 year ago (3 children)

I believe they've just placed a bunch of stuff behind their premium subscription, like shuffle/repeat, lyrics, etc.

[–] JoShmoe@lemmy.zip 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

And being able to look at what’s on a playlist.

[–] The_Picard_Maneuver@lemmy.world 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] JoShmoe@lemmy.zip 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Nm I was wrong. I wanted to talk shit and now here I am.

I respect the integrity.

[–] ZooGuru@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Interesting. Not a Spotify user, but that’s pretty gross. Looks like the way things are going and I’m becoming more okay with that. There are more and more commodities I’m becoming more and more comfortable not paying for.

I really thought it would go in the other direction for me: Making more money leading to being ok spending more. But it turns out I just dislike being nickel and dimed.

[–] mojo@lemm.ee 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Why would free users expect more stuff for free lol. If that's Spotify's biggest complaint then you know they're doing pretty good.

[–] deweydecibel@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

They took free features away, so yeah, it's reasonable to assume they'd be upset.

Let's also remember it's ad supported. The idea was you got the app as it was with or without ads, but now the app itself is pay walled.

If that's Spotify's biggest complaint then you know they're doing pretty good.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Criticism_of_Spotify

[–] mojo@lemm.ee 1 points 1 year ago

bro really had to Google criticisms of Spotify because he couldn't think of any other then wanting more free shit lol

[–] RandomPancake@lemmy.world 10 points 1 year ago

I was wondering the same. I haven't noticed anything.