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Every time I use Spotify and - as the author laments - get podcasts and audiobooks thrown at me, I want to ditch streaming audio entirely. What will I lose? A

Every time I use Spotify and - as the author laments - get podcasts and audiobooks thrown at me, I want to ditch streaming audio entirely. What will I lose? A frictionless way to get individual songs into a playlist and some recommendations. What will I gain? The ability to keep playing those songs after they're dropped by $streaming_platform. Fewer ads in a product I'm already paying for. Supporting artists in a way that gives them more money. Edit: Thought of another positive - songs will stop getting replaced with new mixes of them (this doesn't count the cover art changes). It's happened a dozen times on various Evanescence songs, and a Peter Hollins accapella song was replaced with a violin duet version.

Karsteski 4y ago
I barely use Spotify at this point and I've been meaning to go through it and export lists of my playlists but alas, laziness... My two biggest gripes with Spotify is how poorly it runs on every platform I use it on (web, Android, desktop), and the pushing of podcasts. It constantly has weird glitching and missing UI elements that show up a few seconds later. As much as I listen to podcasts every single day, that's not what I want to use Spotify for, as the podcast player is also atrocious. It has lost my position in my podcasts so many times. The only reason I no longer listen to the JRE podcast is because it's now only on the Spotify platform and Spotify is a terrible experience. I've also run into the issue where songs in my playlists are removed for whatever reason. Why would I ever indefinitely pay money to some service when basic elements of it can be removed at any moment? Same thing happens for YouTube playlists, but at least Spotify has the grace to leave the song info there so you actually know what got removed...
_fs 4y ago
Honest question, are you on a free plan? I use Spotify daily and did not even know they offered audiobooks until I read it in this threads linked article. I knew about podcasts, but have never had it thrown in my face, or even mentioned. Where are these ads the OP is complaining about?
- falcolas 4y ago
  No, I'm the manager of a family plan. They're thrown up as "look at what's new on Spotify" interstitials, and all over the front page. They're also the first two tiles on Browse, and like to show up in categories other than Podcasts and Audiobooks. Oh, and in their marketing emails too. If you're not seeing them, well, that's just odd since I can't get away from them.
PainfullyNormal 4y ago
> What will I gain? The big bonus for me is I can create playlists and sort my music by beats per minute. Vital for creating workout or "evening chill" playlists.
lowbloodsugar 4y ago
I started buying CDs again, which I think I stopped doing for over a decade at least. I run Roon and ripping the CDs just involves sticking the CD into the drive. It's not terribly burdensome to do when a new disk arrives. Qobuz has music for sale (downloads without DRM), and it also integrates with Roon for when I just want to stream. I also used to buy FLACs on bandcamp, but Epic bought them, so we'll see how long it takes for that to get ruined.

Karsteski 4y ago

I barely use Spotify at this point and I've been meaning to go through it and export lists of my playlists but alas, laziness... My two biggest gripes with Spotify is how poorly it runs on every platform I use it on (web, Android, desktop), and the pushing of podcasts. It constantly has weird glitching and missing UI elements that show up a few seconds later. As much as I listen to podcasts every single day, that's not what I want to use Spotify for, as the podcast player is also atrocious. It has lost my position in my podcasts so many times. The only reason I no longer listen to the JRE podcast is because it's now only on the Spotify platform and Spotify is a terrible experience. I've also run into the issue where songs in my playlists are removed for whatever reason. Why would I ever indefinitely pay money to some service when basic elements of it can be removed at any moment? Same thing happens for YouTube playlists, but at least Spotify has the grace to leave the song info there so you actually know what got removed...

_fs 4y ago

Honest question, are you on a free plan? I use Spotify daily and did not even know they offered audiobooks until I read it in this threads linked article. I knew about podcasts, but have never had it thrown in my face, or even mentioned. Where are these ads the OP is complaining about?

falcolas 4y ago
No, I'm the manager of a family plan. They're thrown up as "look at what's new on Spotify" interstitials, and all over the front page. They're also the first two tiles on Browse, and like to show up in categories other than Podcasts and Audiobooks. Oh, and in their marketing emails too. If you're not seeing them, well, that's just odd since I can't get away from them.

PainfullyNormal 4y ago

> What will I gain? The big bonus for me is I can create playlists and sort my music by beats per minute. Vital for creating workout or "evening chill" playlists.

lowbloodsugar 4y ago

I started buying CDs again, which I think I stopped doing for over a decade at least. I run Roon and ripping the CDs just involves sticking the CD into the drive. It's not terribly burdensome to do when a new disk arrives. Qobuz has music for sale (downloads without DRM), and it also integrates with Roon for when I just want to stream. I also used to buy FLACs on bandcamp, but Epic bought them, so we'll see how long it takes for that to get ruined.