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Can very well relate to being annoyed with Spotify being an all-encompassing audio platform. I guess there is a market to that. YouTube Music is also bringing p

Can very well relate to being annoyed with Spotify being an all-encompassing audio platform. I guess there is a market to that. YouTube Music is also bringing podcasts to their app. But for someone who actually consumed a lot of audio content, that’s a terrible idea. If they had separate apps for these and showed hints to get you to download others, it’d feel way more organised. I’ve completely moved to Apple Music for my music needs. The search is horrible and the suggestions are okay at best. But the UX and the audio quality is amazing. I’ve also adapted to searching and listening to Albums instead of searching for one track and letting the platform decide what I listen to for the rest of the day. Completely unrelated. But what Apple Music does with popular Album Arts is also incredible. I don’t have a problem with existing still image album arts. But there’s a real chance that animated album arts are the future

yreg 3y ago
Yep. I'm a very happy Overcast user, so I will never use Spotify to play podcasts. The podcast panel in Spotify UI makes that part of the screen useless for me. It bothers me about the same as an ad banner would. Furthermore I'm annoyed at them calling whatever they are doing 'podcasts'. To me, a podcast means an open RSS feed. Even Apple, the king of walled gardens respects this.
wkat4242 3y ago
I don't think an all-encompassing audio platform is a bad business idea. After all audio is not a big market as it is. But it should be possible to turn features on and off. I have zero interests in podcasts and audiobooks either - I have no patience for that stuff. But it's important to note that at least with (paid) Spotify you can simply use a different client which doesn't offer any suggestion. This is what I do. Outside of music the one thing I would want in audio isn't there though :( It would be erotic ASMR-style content. But as usual big companies stay away from anything under the belt. Oh and I would love nature audio also but I don't think they offer this either (and it's pretty repetitive so usually a short clip on repeat works fine).

yreg 3y ago

Yep. I'm a very happy Overcast user, so I will never use Spotify to play podcasts. The podcast panel in Spotify UI makes that part of the screen useless for me. It bothers me about the same as an ad banner would. Furthermore I'm annoyed at them calling whatever they are doing 'podcasts'. To me, a podcast means an open RSS feed. Even Apple, the king of walled gardens respects this.

wkat4242 3y ago

I don't think an all-encompassing audio platform is a bad business idea. After all audio is not a big market as it is. But it should be possible to turn features on and off. I have zero interests in podcasts and audiobooks either - I have no patience for that stuff. But it's important to note that at least with (paid) Spotify you can simply use a different client which doesn't offer any suggestion. This is what I do. Outside of music the one thing I would want in audio isn't there though :( It would be erotic ASMR-style content. But as usual big companies stay away from anything under the belt. Oh and I would love nature audio also but I don't think they offer this either (and it's pretty repetitive so usually a short clip on repeat works fine).