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This is going to become more of a standard due to people vibecoding their own clients for every dumb thing.
It's all about profits and psying major labels even.more
Even the Spotify shuffle feature is built to maximize profits and to hell with the user experience.
I have almost 2 thousand songs on one playlist and Spotify plays the songs from minor artists (who don't get paid much) constantly, while songs from major artists (who get paid a lot more) are never played. I'm actually surprised to hear those songs when shuffle is turned off.
They've also recently added "Video Episodes for You" to my home screen with no way to turn it off. It takes up 1/3 of the screen with helpful titles like "Session 105, Hillory Duff", and "Reinvent Life from Rock Bottom and Become Unrecognizable." I have never watched a video or listened to a podcast on Spotify.
When it comes to enshittification Spotify's got it down.
Maybe someday one of the other music services will create something like Spotify Connect.
Turn off smart shuffle. It tries to guess the songs you actually like instead of randomly selecting out of 2000. Also if Spotify were biasing smaller artists (they aren't) that would be a good thing.
I was not referring to smart shuffle.