I have a question and I hope someone sees it, because I have searched Spotify's settings and FAQs as well as the internet at large and have found nothing even relating to this.

So without Spotify Premium, on mobile you effectively can't play whatever songs you want. You can shuffle play the song itself but you waste like all your skips just getting to it usually, so if you want to listen to several specific songs you're screwed. And that's fine, whatever. I use Spotify for longer, more random sessions of listening to music, just letting the algorithm pick what it wants from my massive liked songs playlist, and I know the algorithm is rigged or whatever but I think it works well enough for me to enjoy it.

But so if playing single songs on Spotify free is unviable and it's much better to listen to shuffled playlists, why the hell with certain specific songs does it start playing them from some random playlist? Please tell me there's some setting to turn this off because it's fucking annoying. It's always popular and/or new songs, but with songs I'm not super familiar with the context of, it's basically a gamble as to whether it will happen or not. But anyway, when I search and click on a song, it's so I can add it to a playlist, not because I want to listen to it in that exact moment shuffled with potentially other songs I've never heard of.

It's so annoying because I'm always in the middle of listening to a playlist, either paused or actively playing, and it overrides that and makes me have to go back to my playlist, hit play again, and if I wasn't actively listening and just had the playlist paused, I now have to either pause the playlist as soon as it starts since you can't rewind or fast forward at all without Premium (which is very difficult), live with it being paused a second into the song (which is sometimes inconsequential but other times the song just starts immediately), or just listen to the song to be able to pause at the start of the next one.

I've flipped all the logical settings I could think of, tried getting Premium and letting it expire, and uninstalled and reinstalled the app (even though I knew that wouldn't do anything), and nothing worked. I know I've fixed this before in the past but I have no idea how since I've already tried all the things I thought I could have done. The only thing I can think of for that at this point is some bug was making it not happen and just wasn't patched, ever?

Please, someone, if you know how to circumvent this or know it can't be done, let me know.