Options, at the least

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There are many of the opinion that Spotify is understandably trying to evolve along the marketplace. Good enough. However, Spotify also is and has (practically) always been the largest and main place for music, shows etc.

I go there for the library I have gathered over the years, and have sincerely appreciated the music I have been introduced to through Discover recommendations.

This new way of exposing me to music and shows I might like does nothing but disservice to me and the artists and their work. I'm not likely to gravitate towards a style or artist based on 5 seconds in the middle of a song from the middle of an album, especially not in this intrusive auto-play way where my focus goes straight from what is playing and instead to auto-aiming for the Mute button.

Spotify is my player, or radio when I choose to and it suits me to have a radio equivalent playing. I should not be hearing anything that I did not choose to play.

What I find even more dismaying is that while scrolling through the mess of previews for a couple of days, doing my best to give it the benefit of the doubt, and not finding a single artist or album to click through and add to my rotation, my "recently played" list is now unrecognizable from the listener that Spotify has grown to know me as until the update. I can't imagine what my coming Discover Weekly list will look like, but I predict it will not seem suited to my tastes.

The changes and attempts at relevancy are understandable up to a point, but why must previous features be completely obliterated in a single swipe instead of at least offering options of tailoring to tastes and use cases of others than this fresh-fresh demographic?