Spotify Now Offers Lock Screen Widget on iPhone

[Ralfi]

Imagine knowing what you want to listen to on a music player before turning it on? I find it very bizarre that anyone would just turn something on random.

For eg. When wanting to browse curated playlists or your library, just for something to catch your eye. Similar to browsing YouTube.

 

[OneBar]

For eg. When wanting to browse curated playlists or your library, just for something to catch your eye. Similar to browsing YouTube.

Well, the way spotify likes to inject random songs into my playlists as it is, I can't imagine it being better to just randomly play my library. That's why I have playlists. Cuts down on the random injection of stuff I don't wish to listen to. Or I listen to a particular artist on shuffle. Turning on a random channel or shuffling my whole library isn't going to result in what I want to listen to when it inserts its own stuff.

 

[compwiz1202]

Well, the way spotify likes to inject random songs into my playlists as it is, I can't imagine it being better to just randomly play my library. That's why I have playlists. Cuts down on the random injection of stuff I don't wish to listen to. Or I listen to a particular artist on shuffle. Turning on a random channel or shuffling my whole library isn't going to result in what I want to listen to when it inserts its own stuff.

I don't mind it trying to broaden me most of the time, but with Weird Al it was ridiculous. First song after Weird Al was weird and possibly offensive to some, but I liked it. But the second song was way offensive. How could it go from Weird Al to that in two songs??

 

[Ralfi]

Well, the way spotify likes to inject random songs into my playlists as it is, I can't imagine it being better to just randomly play my library. That's why I have playlists. Cuts down on the random injection of stuff I don't wish to listen to. Or I listen to a particular artist on shuffle. Turning on a random channel or shuffling my whole library isn't going to result in what I want to listen to when it inserts its own stuff.

You can turn that feature off.

Clearly we use Spotify differently.

 

[OneBar]

You can turn that feature off.

Clearly we use Spotify differently.

Unless it's a Premium feature I've never found anything that lets you disable random song injection.

 

[OneBar]

I don't mind it trying to broaden me most of the time, but with Weird Al it was ridiculous. First song after Weird Al was weird and possibly offensive to some, but I liked it. But the second song was way offensive. How could it go from Weird Al to that in two songs??

Exactly what it does to me. I'll be listening to some metal band and then will have random rap. Or the other day I was listening to my Christian Dubstep playlist and it was inserting some Arab music in between literally every song on the playlist.