How a picture is worth a thousand words, today Androidsis we wanted to personally test the new benefits of the new version of Spotify which, as announced just a couple of days ago, put an end to random mode at least partially to avoid that many users choose to use those mods that in addition to bypassing that absurd non-sense restriction, also eliminates the source of income of the app that is based on listening to sponsored ads.
But is everything that glitters really gold? Has Spotify told us the whole truth about it? new version of Spotify free which includes recommendations according to our musical interests and up to fifteen playlists or recommendations related to our tastes without random mode?
Well, as you have seen in the attached video in which I show you in detail the new version of Spotify that "Supposedly comes to us with the novelty of the recommendation lists without the random mode", famous king of discord for lovers of this very good application to listen to streaming music for free, this new functionality is already enabled as standard in the official version of the application downloaded directly from the Google Play Store.
The fact that it comes enabled as standard does not mean that it is what we have been told about and announced in all the media for a couple of days or three now, and it is worth remembering that it was promised that in the recommendations area that Spotify makes us personal recommendations based on our own music history.
These recommendations would include 15 playlists or 15 lists of recommendations related to our tastes in which we would have the random mode deactivated, this would allow us to listen to up to 40 hours of music choosing the song we want to listen to at each moment, going from this horrendous random mode with the only and logical condition of the inclusion of sponsored ads that I really see necessary for the good maintenance of the application and I'm willing to go through and give up the many mods that are still functional on the network that remove the random mode and also remove the advertising from Spotify.
The case comes in that when we go to check these changes in the random playback policy of the new Spotify, everything commented remains in borage water, and as I tell you in the headline of this article, in this new Spotify not all that glitters is gold since They have strained it again with cheese in that sense in which they promised the end of the reproduction in random mode.
And it is that of the promised 15 playlists that we could find in the Explore area, 15 playlists to listen to without random mode, in principle only 12 appear at the time of writing this article, (seven at the time of making the video), and worst of all, is that These recommendations have nothing to do with the music that I usually listen to how little I use the Spotify application.
For more Inri, of these currently 12 playlists supposedly based on my musical tastes, right now at the writing of this post only the first one comes to me with the functionality of being able to reproduce any song included in it without having to listen to it in random mode. This morning during the recording of the video and of the seven lists that Spotify recommended to me, there were at least two that I had access to without the restriction of the random mode.
This is not the worst, and as I have mentioned before, these lists would have to be based on recommendations according to the music I like, the music I usually listen to in the application and according to my own playlists stored in the history of the application, which of course is not the case either, and that is if a user who mainly listens to music from the 50s and 60s, great hits of Rock And Roll, Rockabilly and Country advise lists such as ¡Viva Latino! , 90th party, Top Electronic, Wake up and smile, Reggaeton Mopping, Pop News, Latin pop and other lists of the style, be sure that no matter how much they disabled the random mode in any of these lists, be sure that a server will not make use of this new functionality that above is not as it was painted in the official announcement of the new version of Spotify.
I believe that if Spotify will put an end to this limitation of listening in random mode to anyone who is not Premium, it would end once and for all with all those users who resort to those modified applications that circulate on the network, modified applications that, apart from getting rid of the annoying mandatory random mode, also get rid of the advertising integrated into the app.
An advertising that I repeat again, I think is fair and necessary and with which if Spotify removed the random mode once and for all, I am very sure that would increase your profits simply by advertising revenue since hardly anyone would grab onto those mods that circulate on the Internet.
