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I think it's important to understand why people use spotify for podcasts. They use spotify because they already have spotify for music. No one is buying spotify
by SilverBirch 4y ago
I think it's important to understand why people use spotify for podcasts. They use spotify because they already have spotify for music. No one is buying spotify for the podcasts. So the player has to be.... fine. It needs to be just good enough not to actively force people away from it. Spotify podcasts fits the corporate software quality model. And podcast players have been around for about 15 years anyway by now, so it's not rocket science. Anyone who doesn't like it... there are dozens of other podcast apps out there that are great.
- trts 4y agoI buy Spotify for podcasts (as a listener of Heavyweight which is now exclusive to Spotify). It sucks, and about 40% of the time an ad comes on, it crashes or loses my place in the episode completely when I try to skip (or I'm unable to skip). It's literally the worst podcast player I've ever used. I don't know what other exclusives they've gotten with a captive audience, but it's at least a reasonably logical play. Reply All would have kept me on the platform too had it not ended. But I stay because that's where my playlists and recs are, and those serve me well enough too.