In the upcoming weeks, Spotify Premium subscribers will have more control thanks to an upgrade that separates the play and shuffle buttons. The play and shuffle buttons are currently unified for users of Spotify Premium and Spotify Free.
“This new change will allow you to choose the mode you prefer at the top of playlists and albums and listen the way you want to,” Spotify wrote on its blog. “Whether you love the joy of the unexpected with Shuffle mode, or prefer listening to tunes in order by simply pressing Play, Spotify has you covered.”
Spotify listeners may remember that the platform also provided only the “shuffle play” option for albums, which frustrated many of the artists. This changed when multiple Grammy Award winner Adele tweeted at Spotify last year saying “We don’t create albums with so much care and thought into our track listing for no reason.” The platform now displays the standard play button by default on album pages instead of the play/shuffle combo.
The separation of the play and shuffle buttons comes as a welcome change to the status quo, however, it does seem to be quite ridiculous that Sportify is opting to lock out such a basic function behind a paywall and not make it available to its free users.
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