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The Spotify android app supports offline playback. I've not used the desktop client in long time buy it probably still does too. I've never been on a plane tha

The Spotify android app supports offline playback. I've not used the desktop client in long time buy it probably still does too. I've never been on a plane that offered wifi but I've never flown internally in the US. I quite enjoy being properly disconnected for the duration of my annual London to San Francisco flight but maybe if I did it more regularly I wouldn't.

pavel_lishin 11y ago
What do you do while you're disconnected? (Other than sleep, I assume that the London->San Francisco flight is probably over eight hours.
- ghaff 11y ago
  Closer to 12 hours. Read, watch videos that I've downloaded (unless there are on-demand movies), listen to music/podcasts, play games on my tablet, snooze. Maybe it's just a function of traveling a lot but I've pretty much got a system down for my in-flight entertainment. I don't really care that much about in-flight Wi-Fi. Sometimes I really need to work on something but generally I find it's hard to use a laptop on a plane unless I'm flying business.
  - scholia 11y ago
    A 10-12 hour flight (or two) is a great chance to do something that wouldn't fit easily into a normal day. You could read Moby-Dick while listening to the Messiah, or something. Bach Cantantas are good, if you like that sort of thing, because there's a couple of hundred of them. I tend to pack a readable novel (Gaiman, Stephenson, Pratchett or whatever), and it's amazing how fast the time goes. Start reading when you leave for the airport, read it while in queues etc. I read the Harry Potter series that way. Those of us who still have laptops with proper email clients can also use long flights to dispose of not-so-urgent emails, the only problem being that a lot of people will reply ;-)
    - ghaff 11y ago
      (Sadly) longish flights are one of the few times I spend a lot of time reading books these days. Though this ends up meaning that I have lots of dead-tree books laying around home unread because I tend to just take a Kindle traveling. I like your idea about long-form music too. I have lots of classical playlists but I mostly use them as background.

pavel_lishin 11y ago

What do you do while you're disconnected? (Other than sleep, I assume that the London->San Francisco flight is probably over eight hours.

ghaff 11y ago
Closer to 12 hours. Read, watch videos that I've downloaded (unless there are on-demand movies), listen to music/podcasts, play games on my tablet, snooze. Maybe it's just a function of traveling a lot but I've pretty much got a system down for my in-flight entertainment. I don't really care that much about in-flight Wi-Fi. Sometimes I really need to work on something but generally I find it's hard to use a laptop on a plane unless I'm flying business.
- scholia 11y ago
  A 10-12 hour flight (or two) is a great chance to do something that wouldn't fit easily into a normal day. You could read Moby-Dick while listening to the Messiah, or something. Bach Cantantas are good, if you like that sort of thing, because there's a couple of hundred of them. I tend to pack a readable novel (Gaiman, Stephenson, Pratchett or whatever), and it's amazing how fast the time goes. Start reading when you leave for the airport, read it while in queues etc. I read the Harry Potter series that way. Those of us who still have laptops with proper email clients can also use long flights to dispose of not-so-urgent emails, the only problem being that a lot of people will reply ;-)
  - ghaff 11y ago
    (Sadly) longish flights are one of the few times I spend a lot of time reading books these days. Though this ends up meaning that I have lots of dead-tree books laying around home unread because I tend to just take a Kindle traveling. I like your idea about long-form music too. I have lots of classical playlists but I mostly use them as background.