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How does Spotify prevent you from listening to music you want to?

• stjohnswarts 6y ago
  It doesn't unless you're too lazy to spend 5 minutes making a playlist.
• Kaze404 6y ago
  I find that streaming services push me to this weird loop that I never feel like I have to go out of my way to discover music, because it's always pushing me music the platform wants to promote. Of course they're not literally preventing me from doing anything, after all I can just search for the music I want, but often times I would find myself hours into music I've never heard of because the platform decided to play it after what I chose to listen to was over. That's not necessarily a bad thing, it's just not the way I enjoy listening to music. For me the process of discovering a new album is part of the experience, and i missed doing it when it was so convenient for me not to.
  • dntrkv 6y ago
    You can disable that feature if you don’t like it. Personally, I like it especially when I have a short playlist but would like to continue playing music in a similar style.
    • Kaze404 6y ago
      I understand, but that's also part of the problem. Human beings will take the shortest path to "victory" even if they don't like it, and this is a situation that exemplifies it. I end up having a worse experience overall, but it's the path of least resistance so it ends up being the "superior" option. I'm not proposing that Spotify should remove the feature entirely, it's just not the way I want to listen to music.