Reading between the lines, it sounds like this was a planned UI change anyway but their PR/social media people seized the opportunity to make it sound like it w

Reading between the lines, it sounds like this was a planned UI change anyway but their PR/social media people seized the opportunity to make it sound like it was some coordination with Adele: > The streaming service replied "anything for you" and took away the option for listeners to mix up the order music is played from album pages. > However, the shuffle symbol - two intersecting arrows - still appears on individual album tracks. > This means it is still possible to start listening to albums on any track and opt for songs to be played in a random order. If users can still listen to albums in shuffle order then this isn’t really as drastic as the headline sounds. I’m personally not a fan of being told how I have to listen to content, but if it’s just a UI change to how shuffle is enabled then it’s not a big deal.