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Desktop UI A/B testing web player UI
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Plan
Premium
Country
Netherlands
Operating System
Windows 10
My Question or Issue
I recently had to switch to a new account, and when I logged in to the desktop app on this new account, the UI changed. It now looks like the web player UI instead of the traditional UI of the desktop app. After talking to support, it appears that this is part of some A/B testing, as others have noted here:
https://community.spotify.com/t5/Desktop-Windows/Unable-to-edit-playlist-cover/td-p/4948369#
https://community.spotify.com/t5/Live-Ideas/Desktop-Allow-an-optional-switch-between-desktop-and-web...
As a paying premium subscriber, I would like the option to opt out of this ridiculous forced A/B testing. The web player UI is severely limited, as noted in the second link above. I cannot even select multiple songs using ctrl+A or shift+click. I had to use a third-party app (spotmybackup.com) to copy a playlist from my old account. Using the new UI, I would have had to select each of my 1000 songs individually, and add them to a new playlist. To the people at Spotify running this A/B test: your test has failed. Please let me use the fully featured desktop UI again.

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