Adele gets Spotify to take shuffle button off all album pages
On the one hand, I get it: Joe Jackson&#x27;s &#x27;Night and Day&#x27; is laid out as a work of art, and to play the album out of order would be very strange, they are even mixed to segue into each other except for the change from the day side to the night side.<p>But as soon as you put only radio edits on your albums and cut them off anyway between tracks that argument gets a lot weaker, and &#x27;power to the user&#x27; means that the user gets a say in how their content is consumed. Artists that only release albums are pretty rare.<p>What the article isn&#x27;t really clear about is whether this goes for <i>all</i> artists or just for Adele, it would be a lot nicer if both Spotify and Adele would respect the fact that streaming isn&#x27;t vinyl (or CD, for that matter) and that end users, you know, that pesky customer, have other ideas on how to best consume the music.<p>There was an architect here in NL that incorporated a clause in the contract for designing a large apartment building that nobody was allowed to hang their washing outside to dry. I personally don&#x27;t think artists should have any say in the consumption of their art and its eventual use once they release it. You want to dictate how it is used? Keep it to yourself.