Latest update messed up playlist functions...

[Andough]

With the latest update, which changed Spotify's interface on iOs, listening to music has become slightly annoying. Here are a list of the problems I've experienced:

• I cannot just hit "play" when I open the app or when I've left it alone for a bit. I have to go forward or back a track in order to play music. It doesn't respond when I first open it. 
• I cannot pause it, either. When I've listened to music for more than a minute or so, I have to disconnect my headphones in order for the music to stop, otherwise I can hit pause as many times as I can and it won't stop. 
• When I go to certain tracks, it will always start the song at 1:36, rather than the beginning. It doesn't reset the song to the beginning.
• The interface has been incredibly slow. When I downloaded the songs through WiFi, I couldn't do anything on the app. It froze completely, took 4 hours to download songs that used to take an hour at most, and would stop repeatedly after 100 songs were downloaded.

I like the interface change and all, but I lost proper functionality with the app because of it. Has any one else encountered this problem?

I have uninstalled and reinstalled the app, even factory reset my iOs. It hasn't made any difference. 

[valleyescent]

Hey, I've been having problems as well. But mine are different from yours.

On PC:

• After listening to a few songs on spotify, the playlist will continue but the interface will get stuck on one song, and the play/pause/scrub-through functions aren't functional unless I restart the program.
• When I do restart the program, it will not only open spotify again but also a spotify installer, which I then have to cancel.

On iPhone 5, without premium:

• If I shuffle play an album, it will move through most of the songs at normal, and then will start playing songs from the artist's other albums. For example, I will be shuffle playing Ariana Grande's new album 'Dangerous Woman', and after a while, songs from 'Yours Truly', 'My Everything', 'Christmas Kisses' and 'Christmas and Chill' will creep through as well.
• As you know, a spotify ad sometimes comes up saying, "Watch this short video for 30 minutes of ad-free music." Sometimes when I do this, the feature will not work, and ads will still play during that 30 minute period that's supposed to be ad-free.

It just seems like the functionality of spotify is crumbling all of a sudden. I worry about premium users, and whether they have to deal with these problems too, when they are paying good money for the service.