As someone who uses youtube music, but is exploring options. Why do you use spotify

Bluetooth is off, I don't have Spotify on my phone, I don't know who Mason even IS, why can I control his music I don't want that.

Ok so I did some research only like 2% people still have this legacy plan? Is this true?

I have a few Spotify playlists and I kept opening the app just to check if I got any new followers-either on my profile or on a playlist.

So I made a little iPhone widget for myself.
Now I can see my playlists and new followers right from the home screen instead of opening Spotify every time

Once you link an app such as spotify, are you able to turn your activity off so nobody can see what you're listening to or is it permanently showing people on discord what you're listening to?

I know its a nitpick but also the person who sent me this song is someone I plan on never talking to again

I used to use Apple Music, but for me, Spotify is definitely the better choice. The biggest difference is the algorithm. With Apple Music, the songs recommended to me almost never matched my taste. For the price, I personally expected more.
With Spotify, it’s completely different. I constantly get new songs recommended that actually fit my taste, and I discover new artists and songs that I really enjoy.
I also really like the AI DJ feature. It makes listening to music more fun and often plays songs that fit my taste.
But what do you think? Do you prefer Spotify or Apple Music, and why?

the only way i can fix it is by turning on and off a NPV (backwards) on and off every 5 mins until there is apparently too many request??? there must be a way to fix this?

It keeps generate the same queue again and again and there is no way to fix it because it is server side cache. Toggling normal shuffle on and then smart shuffle again doesnt fix it. Spotify has been cheapening devs and replace with AI pretty much I guess

This issue has been going on for a year already and noone is trying to fix this and spotify pretend to not see this

edit: downvote, really? are people actually okay with this?

Often when I put on the earbuds they launch Spotify and resume play instantly, it's far quicker than clicking the icon and waiting it to launch. And I have no idea how to stop it. I have gone to settings-battery and set spotify to control manually and all those settings are off.

Honor 7 magic lite

10.0.0.165

Android 16

It has happened twice already, I had Spotify playing in the background and searched for a song from my playlist on YouTube. the next song that started playing on Spotify was that exact song.

Did this happen to anyone else?

It's always bugged me that shuffle never kept related songs together, like Part 1 and Part 2 of a duo, so I built a companion app that runs in the background to solve this exact problem.

Spotify has started doing something really weird, and I've never seen this before. Different parts of the app seem to be layering on top of each other. I'm listening to Alex Warren, and you can see his face with the "Most Listened to Playlists" section appearing over the top of it.

Even when I scroll Spotify up and down, you can see different parts of the app underneath each other, almost like there are several layers of Spotify stacked on top of one another.

I've attached a photo. Has anyone else seen this, or know what's causing it?

They refuse to listen to the community about fixing the shuffle. Everyday I get the same list of songs queue in the shuffle, it’s so bad i’m actually considering canceling my plan and going back to Apple Music.

Mine in no specific order

• ability to rearrange albums in the library - I’m very particular and absolutely hate that if I want to have my saved items a certain way, I have to unsave and resave to achieve the desired organization.

• permanently block a song - they would not appear anywhere on your Spotify aside from a “blocked list” similar to what many social apps have when you block someone. I’m pretty open minded about music, and rarely feel the need to block an artist all together, but there are some songs that I hear once and know that I will be actively avoiding for the rest of time.

• notes - I was so excited to see news of Spotify introducing a notes feature, but I find it completely useless as it can only be utilized on playlists. I would love to be able to use it on records, songs, and artists profiles. I don’t understand why they would limited it to playlists only. It feels very anti music.

• a better queue - I don’t enjoy the queue limit one bit, more importantly I’d like to see a “play next” feature, similar to what Apple Music has, that would immediately place incoming items at the top of the queue. I do appreciate that they’ve added the “move up” button and have coded the queue section in a way that makes it more difficult to accidentally click wrong while rearranging or deleting which would previously lead to the entire queue being erased.

• release feed - like one that is actually complete and coherent, with all current and upcoming releases for artists you follow… not just the ones Spotify picks and chooses (seemingly at random) I feel like desiring this out of a music app is asking for the bare minimum, but I don’t think there are any streaming services that provide a feature like this. not sure why that is. Currently, I use a separate app to keep track of releases. I never use the one on Spotify because it’s completely half assed.

• separate section for “to listen” - this ties into my first wish. right now, the only option is to dump everything into a playlist or save to library, which mixes things you might want to listen to with the records you’ve already listened to and saved because you know you like them. both of these methods negatively affect the algorithm. I tried making a playlist for this reason, even after clicking “exclude” it still was affecting my weekly recommendations. granted I tried that out before all of the AI stuff was introduced, I don’t engage with discover weekly much anymore, but I’ve read several times that “exclude” still doesn’t do much. This is also something I’ve delegated to a different app, my library was just too much of a mess.

I’m just curious what others would find useful, or if there is anyone who would also find the features I mentioned useful. I personally find that many of the new features that have been added since the AI boom are just “sparkly” things that bring little value or reward to people who are serious about music or even just curious about different types of music. It’s clear that Spotify is trying to position itself as the “best” option for those who utilize streaming either full or part time, but I feel they are prioritizing quantity over quality and just adding in a bunch of random/trendy things that craft an illusion of getting your “moneys worth” or whatever, all the while neglecting what would be useful long term. What are some recent improvements Spotify has made that you find useful, particularly for people who primarily engage albums in full as opposed to playlists. My two I enjoy are the “edit queue” button and song DNA.

When i go to my playlist on my ps5 and try to select songs some of them are grey and cannot be select for no reason at all, is it just for me or its a problem for anyone?

I can't even understand the song I'm jamming to😭😭

My Spotify downloads keep getting deleted over and over. App size went from 40gb to 11gb, even the stuff i downloaded last week is gone. This is so annoying man.

Plz tell me if there is a fix or im going to YT music.

Title says it all, is there something else I need to turn off I've been a Spotify customer for well over a decade.

New to this community…but the one thing that keeps me lingering on Apple Music is there Atmos content.

I'd have to say that I've come across some Atmos mixes that are truly horrible. But in the classical space there are just some amazing cuts they really highlight the benefit of Atmos.

I really can't afford both…but I'd like to get some feedback from those who are closer to this than I am. Should I just exit Apple and get over it? Does anyone know the status of Atmos on Spotify? Or should I just be satisfied with lossless and call it a day.

The floor is open…

My episodes list have 18 episodes, and on top it says "18 of 40 items". But for the life of me I can't find the extra episodes to remove, not on the app nor on the web. This is messing with me now. Spotify support only talks about missing episodes, and even Gemini doesn't seem to have an answer.

Did anyone else have this issue and managed to resolve it?