Spotify - Music and Podcasts 12+

Used to be better, has a lot of difficulties that I’ll talk about.
Premium is a pretty good deal but good luck getting it, not only do you have to go to a website but the chances of that website working properly on your phone is unlikely. Your address is needed to purchase premium but whenever I go to put it in there isn’t a place where I can tap on to put it in. You used to be able to minimize ads when you were on the app but now you have to watch the many ads, which also show up every 5 songs. They make ads about their own playlists like they couldn’t just make it pop up on the homepage, and they also repeat ads over and over again until you can recite them word for word. They say they listen to their users but only to the users who write good reviews. When share playing with your computer almost all the time there will be lyrics in the song that don’t even play. Another thing that I find very annoying is the whole 6 skips every HOUR which is not at all worth it because even when skipping you still get ads. Then there’s choosing songs, say you look up a song and try to play it, there will be 5-6 songs that you will have to listen to or skip through to listen to the song you want to, I like the idea of suggesting songs but it should at least play the song I want to listen to first or second. This is all I have to complain about and I hope I can get some fixes or at least a response.

Adding to my library takes much longer than before because before I could just press a heart next to the song as it played or swipe right on the title to add it to my liked songs. Now whenever I do either of the two (the plus at the bottom on now playing screen or swiping right on a song title ) it pulls up another menu that shows me my liked songs but also all my other playlists with green checks next to where it is added and I have to manually add it to the liked playlist if not there. It’s just not as seamless as before . I also feel that the plus sign on the now playing screen is misleading because as long as it’s in any playlist, it will appear solid green to indicate that it is saved; but in order to see if I’ve liked it or not I have to press on it, pulling up the list of all my playlists; sometimes just to see that I have already liked it, and having then wasted about 4 seconds of doing things on the app for 0 results. But the reason I had to check in the first place is because the green plus could mean it’s saved anywhere ; but I specifically want this song in my likes so now I have to check where before the solid heart immediately let me know I had liked the song (in one tap) .

Other reviewers addressed glitches, I’ve noticed a few here and there but overall I use the app daily and enjoy it very much. I just want likes to be simple again mostly .

i’ve been a premium user for a years now, the only reason i’ve stayed that way is because of my catalog of songs/playlists i have. The constant useless changes like removing the “heart” feature, now automatically adding any song to your likes and you have to manually go in after the automatic like to add to your playlist. And if you want to add a song already in your playlists to your likes, you have to go in the cluttered and long drop down menu. Then getting rid of the scroll feature on your liked songs that showed the dates. These changes were for no reason and were small but make the app so much more uncomfortable and annoying to use. I loved being able to go back and see what songs i liked in certain periods of times in the 7 years i’ve had my account. But now the main reason I added songs to my likes is gone for no reason at all! On top of everything, they’re trying to make the app like tiktok like every other app out there and are shoving automatic shuffle/AI down our throats. For an app that’s only tolerable if you pay for it, y’all are sure making the experience worse and have been for a while. If you’re just barely making a music streaming account/subscribing to a music streaming service, choose apple music. It’s 3 stars because i like the aspect of having your own profile and being able to find other peoples playlists really easy - i’ve discovered a lot of new music before they changed the way radios were formed.