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One cool feature that early Spotify had is that you could put your own MP3s in your playlists and Spotify would synchronise them across your devices. How moder
by Gud 2y ago
One cool feature that early Spotify had is that you could put your own MP3s in your playlists and Spotify would synchronise them across your devices.
How modern technology should work, but doesn’t anymore.
- lblume 2y agoI agree that would be what good software would do, but what incentives would Spotify have to do that? They would have to pay for hosting and are possibly legally responsible for the file content, which could itself be illegal. And most people today who use Spotify don't extensively listen to music via MP3 files.
- Gud 2y agoThey wouldn’t have to host the files.
- jisnsm 2y agoGoogle Play Music also used to do this.
- mrweasel 2y agoDidn't Apple also do this, or did that require that you had the CD?
- athrun 2y agoApple still does (CD is not required), it's called iTunes Match. It used to be standalone, but nowadays it's part of Apple Music.
- snackernews 2y agoThis comment made me realise I’m still paying for iTunes Match and probably haven’t needed to for several years.
- sorenjan 2y agoThat's still possible, although not as seamless as it was on Google Play music where you could upload music to Google's servers and stream just like their official library. In Spotify, you have to point the desktop client to a local folder with your music. I have then made a special playlist where I put those songs and mark that as available offline on my phone. I'm pretty sure it only syncs while on the same LAN. I have some of that local music in other playlists as well, and it mostly works fine. I don't use it a lot, but I think the key is to make sure it's available offline on the device you want to play it on.
- Gud 2y agoOk that’s good! I’ll hav to try it out