Some Spotify Users Frustrated With Recent Update, Moving to Apple Music Instead

One week ago today Spotify launched a revamped “Your Library” tab that the company said was “designed to get you to the content you want faster.” According to Spotify subscribers on r/Spotify, this update has done the complete opposite and made navigating large music libraries nearly impossible, with the main purpose apparently made to promote Spotify’s burgeoning interest in podcasts.

On r/Spotify this week, over a thousand users have gotten behind a post asking for the “old” Spotify to come back, with a few hundred comments discussing the various problems with the update. People have a lot of different thoughts on the update, but the consensus on what went wrong appears to be that Spotify stripped features in Your Library to make room for the new Podcasts tab.

In the process, the Songs tab was removed and the recently played section has been moved and downgraded, showing fewer artists and songs and removing some of its customization features. We’ve linked some of the Reddit users who provided specific complaints about the update below:

u/TehCrag: “Basically they removed the Songs tab and the Recently played section. And the albums tab only shows full albums that you have…