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Spotify will now allow free users to search and instantly play any track they want. Prior to this update, non-paying users would have to shuffle through songs to reach the track they wanted to hear.
8118 upvotes, 119 comments. Sidechat image post by popbase. "Spotify will now allow free users to search and instantly play any track they want.

Prior to this update, non-paying users would have to shuffle through songs to reach the track they wanted to hear."
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Anonymous 1w

now that’s long overdue!

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Anonymous 1w

So I can get rid of premium?

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Anonymous 1w

This should’ve been a thing from the very beginning

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Anonymous 1w

this used to be a thing 💔 glad they’re bringing it back though

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Anonymous 1w

bare minimum

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Anonymous 1w

The new generation won’t understand how bad we suffered

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Anonymous 1w

Oh they are about to get so many new users

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Anonymous 1w

Oh so now they wanna behave. I just switched my subscription to Apple Music yesterday 💀

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Anonymous 1w

so what the hell and i paying for!?! 😍😍

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Anonymous 1w
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Anonymous 1w

This has been a thing on Spotify most countries except here about time 😭

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Anonymous 1w

So people with premium should get something extra now imo because wtf am I paying for

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Anonymous 1w

RIGHT after i got spotify premium…. boutta cancel ts 😭

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Anonymous 1w

they're gonna lower royalties even further... they already pay us artists jack shit

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Anonymous 1w

IM SO HAPPY FOR YALL THIS WAS UNJUST FROM THE BEGINING💔

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Anonymous 1w

they need to lower the price for the subscription if all i'm paying for is no ads

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Anonymous 1w

Don't let this distract you from the fact that the CEO funds wars

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Anonymous 1w

i wonder if they’re doing this to get more users just to take it away again in a few years so people want premium more

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Anonymous 1w

I feel like they want to get more people on the free version (even if it’s at the cost of losing subscriptions), because they’ll make more in ad revenue

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Anonymous 1w

Wait so what does premium get now

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Anonymous 1w

BRING BACK SHOWING US THE DATE WE ADDED A SONG TO OUR LIKED PLAYLIST!!

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Anonymous 1w

😭🙏🙏

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Anonymous 1w

This is the way it used to be, nothing new here

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Anonymous 1w

Best QOL update ever

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Anonymous 1w

is this true??? thank the dawn

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Anonymous 1w

so whats the point in premium now

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Anonymous 1w

What’s the catch?

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Anonymous 1w

Christmas for broke niggas🤣🤣

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Anonymous 1w

I was listening on my laptop just so I didn’t have as many ads AND could play the song I wanted😭 Spotify was just gatekeeping on mobile for so long

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Anonymous 1w

Bare minimum 🥳

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Anonymous 1w

not the bare minimum

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Anonymous 1w

Not sure if this was true but didnt spotify also change something in the terms of service basically saying they can take, manipulate and use artists music?

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Anonymous 1w

THANK YOU 👏🏻👏🏻

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Anonymous 1w

Yayyyy (bare minimum)

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Anonymous 1w

okay so what’s the point of having a subscription now? just ad free?

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Anonymous 1w

like imagine making an app to stream music, which you could find on youtube for free btw, just to be like "yeah so you actually can't listen to the song you want, but what if we add that song to like 500 other songs in this playlist but not play the one you want to listen to??"

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Anonymous 1w

They’re trying to compete with Apple Music

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Anonymous 1w

ARE YOU KIDDING ME

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Anonymous 1w

Deshittification is so cool

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Anonymous 1w

next they should stop giving $700 million to war efforts

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Anonymous 1w

Right after I just got premium… 3 months free

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Anonymous 1w

I was wondering why all the sudden my playlist was playing in order (??))

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Anonymous 1w

Just say that you’re broke lol

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Anonymous 1w

There’s still a ton of ads and the shuffle feature

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Anonymous 1w

Finallyyy I knew not getting premium would pay off! I can tolerate the ads if they let me pick my songs

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Anonymous 1w
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Anonymous 1w

There was a huge loophole with this if you had an Xbox. You could just use Spotify on your Xbox and the songs would sync up on your phone so you could just freely play whatever music you wanted to even on your phone with no restrictions

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Anonymous 1w

so why am I paying for spotify premium then…

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Anonymous 1w

lowk unsubscribing from premium now tf 😭

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Anonymous 1w

That’s the only reason I paid for premium in the first place

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Anonymous 1w

Nice but they still pay artists shavings of Pennie’s on the dollar. I used to put music up there and I honestly don’t care that I got paid short. I’m more pissed for artists that I admire getting shorted that truly deserve bigger payouts and continue to claw against a machine that just cares about bodies not people :)

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Anonymous 1w

When?

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Anonymous 1w

FINALLY!!! Time to cancel my Apple Music subscription 🤪

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Anonymous 1w

what’s the point of premium then? are there any extra benefits of having it now other than no ads?

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Anonymous 1w

Why can’t pick any song even after updating why

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Anonymous 1w

Yay but also Spotify is now showing your name and information to others so be careful

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Anonymous 1w

Can you save songs without premium?

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Anonymous 1w

They’ve always allowed this on free plans if you use the web interface

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Anonymous 1w

FINALLY I was wondering why i could suddenly play my liked songs

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Anonymous 1w

so what am i subscribed for

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Anonymous 1w

Good thing my Premium just got canceled for me being too broke

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Anonymous 1w

so premium is like…. obsolete?

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Anonymous 1w

Fantastic, i would like all my money back now

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Anonymous 1w

Omg just tried it 😍 ty ms. Popbase

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Anonymous 1w

FINALLYYY maybe ill finally use it again 😭

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Anonymous 1w

Please tell me that free users still have ads. If not, what am I paying for?

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Anonymous 1w

HUUUUUGE NEWS FOR THE UNEMPLOYED

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Anonymous replying to -> #3 1w

You'll still get ads

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Anonymous replying to -> #6 1w

Not if you use a browser with rolling-Adblock enabled. For example Brave skips ads on Spotify. I’m personally not a Spotify user but I’ve remade some of my playlists for some friends who are and I noticed that while using it on Brave.

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Anonymous replying to -> #9 1w

Do you know if uBlock also does it?

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Anonymous replying to -> #10 1w

Not sure

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Anonymous replying to -> #10 1w

ublock skips ads, but it does goes it to bug everyone and a whole

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Anonymous replying to -> #8 1w

huh?? 💀

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Anonymous replying to -> #14 1w

I think #8 means “every once and a while”

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Anonymous replying to -> #16 1w

no ads

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Anonymous replying to -> #22 1w

Yup! Mine reflects it already

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Anonymous replying to -> #19 1w

Now. Just update your app if needed but it’s implemented already

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Anonymous replying to -> #1 1w

I KNEW IT I KNEW IT!!!!!! MY BOYCOTT OF SPOTIFY PREMIUM HAS FINALLY PAID OFF!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! (Ads were so annoying I decided like 8 years ago that I would never give them my money out of spite)

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Anonymous replying to -> #28 1w

I relate to this so hard

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Anonymous replying to -> #28 1w

I hate all subscription services and never pay for them if possible so this is a massive massive win for me finally my friends can stop ripping me for not using Spotify

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Anonymous replying to -> #11 1w

That’s what I’m thinking, like it should be free to listen to the song I chose just with an ad

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Anonymous replying to -> #9 1w

what if I use the spotify app though

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Anonymous replying to -> #7 1w

it used to be lol they removed it years ago and are now putting it back finally

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Anonymous replying to -> #28 1w

YAY!!! enjoy your Spotify now bestie!!

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Anonymous replying to -> #32 1w

Then just switch to using a mobile browser that has rolling Adblock. Again, as before, Brave works. Just use “request desktop site” when you’re on the page

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Anonymous replying to -> #32 1w

Search up spicetify, it’s an add on for Spotify that lets you download things like an adblocker

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Anonymous replying to -> #39 1w

no ads unlimited skips, standard is still stuck at 6

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Anonymous replying to -> #33 1w

But we can now switch songs when we want

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Anonymous replying to -> #42 1w

ehh still a hassle for people relying on their playlists, u can’t just go pick any song on it. and when you search a song you’ll get an ad immediately or right after 😭 this is how old spotify used to work

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Anonymous replying to -> #33 1w

I can’t pick any song even after updating

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Anonymous replying to -> #40 1w

Like what tho

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Anonymous replying to -> #42 1w

Idk but SOMETHING if they want me to continue paying

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Anonymous replying to -> #28 1w

You are so much stronger than me

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Anonymous replying to -> #23 1w

Nah they did that shit on purpose, they were waiting for you to switch subs

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Anonymous replying to -> #28 1w

SAME! I’ve refused to for like a decade 😭

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Anonymous replying to -> #42 1w

really? maybe it just hasn’t rolled out for you yet idk? i just tried and it even let me select any off my playlist

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Anonymous replying to -> #33 1w

ye it works for me

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Anonymous replying to -> #9 1w

Using Spotify in a browser on mobile is SUCH hell tho

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Anonymous replying to -> #53 1w

It was the same on pc, you just had to listen to ads.

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Anonymous replying to -> #54 1w

And Tidal has been doing the same thing forever + they pay their artists well

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Anonymous replying to -> #54 1w

Literally every car manufacturer that exists has made weapons for war (funded them)😱🤦🏼‍♂️

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Anonymous replying to -> #35 1w

Is this one of those weirdos who claims to not listen to music

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Anonymous replying to -> #59 1w

People in here are starving 😭

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Anonymous replying to -> #40 1w

You’re paying for no ads. You’re a moron for ever paying for a service that only makes itself worth paying for by making the free version unusable dogshit, but you’re still paying for no ads.

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Anonymous replying to -> #54 1w

Then pay for it. It’s up to you.

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Anonymous replying to -> #54 1w

Then use one of the dozens of free music apps instead of paying an evil corp 🤯

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Anonymous replying to -> #66 1w

Just say that they’re a greedy corporation who benefits off of the suffering of small artists

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Anonymous replying to -> #21 1w

No ads

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Anonymous replying to -> #78 1w

Same

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Anonymous replying to -> #54 1w

Tidal mentioned🗣️‼️

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Anonymous replying to -> #55 1w

Which is why I ride a bike when I can!

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Anonymous replying to -> #75 1w

“Please tell me that free users still have ads” Seriously? You’d rather free users still have ads so you can be better than them? If they didn’t still have ads, YOU could stop paying for it and have more money. But it’s that important to you to feel better than others that you would be against *Spotify becoming free for everyone, including you.*

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Anonymous replying to -> #54 1w

yeah i’m not pulling out a fucking safari spotify tab out and about that’s fucking diabolical 😭😭

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Anonymous replying to -> #59 1w

I'm in here wondering, were yall not on the student premium plan at the start?

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Anonymous replying to -> #89 1w

Well that’s your choice. Running it with a good browser and it’s very smooth. Nobody said anything about safari.

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Anonymous replying to -> #89 1w

Also I feel like you’re just trying to justify paying for premium because this layout and system works perfectly well.

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Anonymous replying to -> #9 1w

Yall acting like im some corpo when i literally use Musi.

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Anonymous replying to -> #54 6d

Musi is no longer available 😔😔

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Anonymous replying to -> #68 6d

I know 😔😔 I'm one of the real ones still using it though

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