[All Platforms] Customize Start Screen

[user-removed]

This is not a new idea, but I haven't found any practical reply to it, so I think it needs to be repeated. I completely agree with Rennestein (screen capture below), we need to stop seeing irrelevant suggestions because it is annoying. Why can't it be possible to decide what we first see when we open Spotify on any device? (playlists, recently played, artists we're following, etc), and enjoy better our Spotify experience?
Please Spotify, let us have the home screen as we'd like. :)) Thank you!

[eurohilli]

You don't have to install iTunes, Apple Music has a web player, just like Spotify. 

music.apple.com

[Shahius]

Haha. Now musicians started pulling their music from Spotify due to this controversial podcasts feature. LOL. You should have stayed away from politics, Spotify! I told you so long before.

[Iguala]

I’m also tired tired tired super tired of seeing things I’m not interested in, like this erotic things. Just like all of the other comments, I’m paying premium to get rid of ads, and this erotic things and unwanted content are flooding my screen when I open Spotify.

DO SOMETHING. DO SOMETHING. DO SOMETHING 

[eurohilli]

They're not going to do anything anytime soon, if at all, much like optimising their Mac app for the M1 chip. I'm at Apple Music now, so much better, for the same price.

[mathisbrogers]

Thank you, Eurohilli. I did not know that.

[eurohilli]

Seriously, the Apple Music sound quality blows Spotify clean out of the water. I have tested on my B&W HiFi and Bose QC headphones. The difference is remarkable.

More about Apple lossless here:

https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT212183

If you're feeling adventurous, and your internet connection, storage capacity and hardware allows it, you can stream/download Pro-Res, at about 150MB per song. Again, all this for the same price as Spotify, just 10 bucks a month. Oh, throw in Dolby Atmos for no extra charge.

[wildcardNS]

They will never allow you control over the home page. The home page is how they leverage their algorithm for maximum "engagement." It's literally their business model.

They don't care about usability. The faster you find what you're looking for, the less time they have to influence you to do something else.

[eurohilli]

As long as we're paying our 10 bucks a month and doing something on their platform, why should they care what we do? If all I want is to do is search and listen to music all day, what do they care?

All I'm seeing on the Apple Music app right now is just that, music. I have disliked a few artists and they have in fact been removed from recommendations. Slowly but surely Apple Music is showing me more and more of what I want to listen to. If I want Apple podcasts, there's another app for that.

I stopped watching MTV back in the 90's because they stopped playing music videos. I also don't watch VH1 anymore because they've gone the same way.

In the case of MTV, VH1 and Spotify, they obviously have their target market, which doesn't seem to include music lovers anymore, but that's fine, because there are plenty other options, and they all know that but clearly don't care.

[smedslund]

Well, i guess it is time to cancel our family sub after 10 years and move on to another streaming service.

I pay for this and still the option for continuing play music is available as default and now you are putting the possibility to get rid of the annoying pods section to later.

Give me a break.

As a Swedish company you should have learned that the customer are always right.

[geoshina]

I've cancelled my premium subscription. I've been a Premium user for 7 years now. 

I'm using Apple Music and I feel so good for not having podcasts being shoved at me whenever I want to listen to music.