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Spotify will now let free users pick and play tracks | TechCrunch (techcrunch.com)
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[–] 17 points 1 year ago (10 children)

I'm so confused. Couldn't you always pick what track you wanted to play?

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  • [–] 21 points 1 year ago (7 children)

    Nope. At some point spotify forced FREE users to shuffle play playlists. You couldn't pick which specific song you'll hear first. And with ads, obviously.

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  • [–] 6 points 1 year ago (6 children)

    Damn, when I joined way back when, you could pick the track you wanted you just couldn't skip and had to hear ads. Being able to pick a track is the whole reason I moved away from Pandora.

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  • [–] 4 points 1 year ago (5 children)

    I've recently moved away from Spotify and to Pandora, ironically.

    Pandora premium let's you play whichever track you want, they are not longer exclusively stations, but their station algorithm is the reason I decided on them over other spotify alternatives

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

    Currently, for free users, only PC or tablet allows to control what you listen (caveat occasional ads) but mobile constraints to a shuffle reproduction of albums, and if you dare to do a short album they spice it with additional related tracks, so you are never in control of what is likely to play...

    EDIT: well, apparently I can do that also on my mobile app, I remember in the past some glitched occasions bit it seems is real now...

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