Playlist Radio is being removed from the context menu

[Eni]

In March 2023, we're removing the Playlist Radio option from the playlist context menu. We'd like to hear your thoughts and feedback about this change in the comments.

  

FAQ 

Are we removing the whole radio feature?

No, we are only removing Playlist Radio. Track/artist and album radios will still be available.

Do we have features where users can have a similar experience?

Yes, right now we have the enhance button or the recently rolled out smart shuffle to give recommendations based on user-created playlists.

[Argus_Vidicon]

I keep a Windows 7 machine running that won't update Spotify and the feature is on that old version of Spotify.

That tells me that Spotify is just being stubborn.  It works on that old version of Spotify on Windows 7.

spotify-1.2.5.1006.g22820f93

Come on Spotify, we know your being stubborn.  You have tons of subscribers, why do you do use this way with no real solution.  You're dogging the issue. Hey I have an idea, just bring back Playlist Radio.

I fire up Spotify in my home through Google Home and on all my audio devices on a "Home Group," then got to the Windows 7 computer and get a Playlist radio started playing, then leave it run all day.

I also save the history of what's being played, make a playlist of that and run Playlist Radio on that playlist.

You can continue to add the new songs to the playlist and Spotify helps you keep from duplicating songs already in the playlist. I love Spotify and subscribed 3 weeks after it hit the Unites States in about 2011.  It's the best music service out there.  Just please bring back Playlist Radio.  I know it's still there, you're just hiding it,  That is rude of you.

[11144473425]

This was such a bad idea to get rid of this feature. My playlists are based on mood/mindset and can include many different artists and genres. Artist/Song radio just doesn't capture that mix of different things that are present in a playlist. 

[megumeat]

Who voted for this? Who asked for this? Why are things always being done without asking for CUSTOMER'S OPINIONS? BRING BACK THE PLAYLIST RADIOS AND "Go to playlist radio" FEATURE NOW

[Fen_Star]

Why is this marked as the solution? I clicked solved! Go to solution and this is what I got. This is not a solution and should not be marked as one.

[Thunderluc]

Still coming back in the hope they will fix this! Vote on Live Ideas! But I guess the strategy is just wait another 10 years until a new generation will forget this feature ever existed. The plot of Foundation is nothing compared to the way Spotify seems to run their company. 

[Kazymandias]

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@Hchaos wrote:

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@Dessi wrote:

While Playlist Radio has been removed, Song, Artist and Album Radios are still available and serve as valid alternatives.

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No, Song, Artist, and Album Radios are absolutely NOT valid alternatives. I honestly cannot comprehend how anyone could think that they are.

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The managerial class that runs corporations has some big problems:

1. Stupidity — This is the most obvious one. They mistake their conformity for intelligence, in taking classes in school and in hiding behind social norms...and stupidity rewarded by failing upward. 
   • Honest, intelligent people are punished because they explain things accurately, instead of lying with enthusiasm about the chances of ideas working, and covering up when something does not.
   • The best people become essential at a given role, so they aren't promoted lest they leave that role...leaving the incompetent to rise through the corporate ranks. The higher up they are, the more dishonest and stupid they are likely to be, especially at their job. 
2. The Dunning-Kruger effect. The managerial class is generally stupid enough to think they can do things they know nothing about, like app design for music fans, in this case. Automotive design, graphics tools, telecommunications, each industry is full of nitwits who got a business/management degree and think they can therefore do these specialized tasks...but they're the WORST possible candidates for doing so. 
3. The sociopathy of bureaucracy. Bureaucracy doesn't reward understanding and caring, and insulates its committees and mindless cogs from responsibility for the impact of its decisions on real people.
4. Corporatism in general separates a company from the healthy system of being rewarded for benefiting customers/community and punished for failing them. Instead of its income/capital being dependent upon members of society choosing to trade wealth for what it produces, it can just defraud investors/shareholders by gaming metrics, raising money without regard for the actual customers. Failing the customers is actually REWARDED through the metrics of cutting corners and screwing over employees.

This all adds up to a corporation being run by dim-witted sociopaths who can't possibly empathize with the needs of its customers, and who wouldn't bother to try if they could.

[athousandchiefs]

Sir, this is a Wendy's.

(In all seriousness though, you're completely right and this is why enshi*tification will progress unchallenged. Also these behaviors are ignored or supported by the ignorant masses and so it will never change. We'll ride this death spiral into filtration.)

[cdeck1]

I know we are getting our Chat GPT formed takes out here, but this has been fixed with the addition of smart shuffle on playlists haha

[Kazymandias]

Ah, no, I wrote that by hand, because my IQ is over 80.

There are 58 pages of people explaining, in detail, why Smart Shuffle is not even vaguely adequate as a replacement.