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Wednesday, July 31, 2024

Fuck You Spotify (Again) (And Until the Next Time, Which I Assume Won't Be Very Long From Now)

Never-minding destroying the entire music industry overnight on the backs of assholes like me, Spotify has created some curiously shitty user experiences for their users. A few years ago I bitched about their ridiculous "hey, let's just make albums play in random order" bullshit:

It's taken Adele to get Spotify to remove the fucking ridiculous "shuffle" as the default option for albums. How did this even happen? It drives me fucking nuts; I can understand playlists being shuffle, but artists agonize for weeks on the sequencing of their albums and then Spotify just decided to say "fuck it, we know better"?

And now their latest fucking thing is "Smart Shuffle", which means:
1) I spend my time & musical love & energy putting together a playlist of songs I want to hear

2) Hey, since I like to have fun and I already know I like the songs - they're on my playlist that I personally made - I don't mind mixing it up and hitting the "shuffle" button

3) Oh but don't worry! Spotify knows better!

4) Its default is to not only play my playlist on shuffle, but something they're calling "smart shuffle"

5) Which play random songs that are not on my playlist that Spotify thinks I might like to hear...even though it should pretty clearly know that the songs ON MY PLAYLIST are the ones I want to hear, and the reason I know this is BECAUSE BY ITS VERY DEFINITION A PLAYLIST IS MADE UP OF SPECIFIC SONGS I WANT TO HEAR!!!!

6) So now I've got to hit the button once to get back to normal shuffle - i.e., shuffling through the songs I actually chose to put on my fucking playlist - and Then I've got to hit it AGAIN if I want to play my playlist in the order of songs that I fucking carefulLy crafted for my own listening experience
Who the fuck thought this was a good idea? 

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