I don't use Spotify anymore for random listening either. I use it only for very specific cases where I search for one particular song (and that's usually becaus

I don't use Spotify anymore for random listening either. I use it only for very specific cases where I search for one particular song (and that's usually because I'm looking at a score at the moment and want to listen to it too, i.e. a very specific use case). For everything else I only see a mess, basically what the author described. Bluntly speaking, it's become useless. Now I actually put on a CD at home when I want to listen to something. However, I do listen to a particular podcast, on podcasters.spotify.com (10-minute Japanese listening practice), and at least there aren't any ads there.