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I really don’t like this feature—I enjoyed their genre/mood oriented running playlists explicitly as a way to listen to stuff well outside of my usual listening while out on runs, but since they made them “made for you” they’re strictly worse. Relentless algorithmic sameness is everywhere and I’m sick of it.

Spotify is also funny for maintaining the existence of their feature suggestion community boards while just utterly stonewalling for years while thousands of paying users beg for stuff like…being able to hide a section of the home screen, or not have long-standing playlists magically change.



My super basic feature request is to be able to report wrong metadata. It's just impossible right now unless you're the artist as far as I can tell. For example Dreaming Bull (https://open.spotify.com/artist/7s6vcAnBioL2PJisG8YMww) with a single actual album in 2014 is either taken over by or merged with some random crap. But Spotify doesn't care enough to even let me let them know. (Yes, I filled out the contact form multiple times - it's ignored)


I had this same problem in Tidal, where attribution errors are really common even for big artists. For example, look under singles here https://listen.tidal.com/artist/8112 and look here both in the albums and singles sections https://listen.tidal.com/artist/34575

At least on Tidal you can email customer support about it, but they are slow (probably under staffed) and it usually takes weeks for them to fix things and now with the constant flood of AI-made music, the crap accumulates faster than it can be cleaned up.

I ended up moving on to Apple Music where the situation in relation to attribution is not as bad. I chose Apple Music because it's among the services that has better rates for artists, although lower than Tidal https://virpp.com/hello/music-streaming-payouts-comparison-a...


> maintaining the existence of their feature suggestion community boards while just utterly stonewalling for years while thousands of paying users beg for stuff

my one I've been asking them for years for is the ability to quickly swap profiles on a family plan. (first world problem i know!)

My daughter, not being able to swap to her profile on our main media machine has utterly destroyed the utility of Discover Weekly for me, and for a time that was my favorite spotify feature.


The solution is simple: stop paying.




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