• StarMerchant938@lemmy.world
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    How has nobody used to mention that this ALREADY used to be a feature they had before they killed it. I remember in high school me and the girl I was dating used to send eachother playlists. I didn’t even know spotify had killed the feature until I went looking for one of those playlists in my inbox that used to be there.

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    People will use every one of these horrendous messaging subapps but scoff at the idea of downloading signal or even whatsapp.

  • SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.ca
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    I’d prefer it if they fixed the app so it doesn’t play random shit and subscriptions and notifications actually work.

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    When you see things like this remember that you’re paying for this. Stuff like this is why the price has gone up again.

    They had a good thing near perfect but they kept adding useless features and bloating the app and price. I need to cancel this shit but my grandma loves it.

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        I have to because my grandma spent so much effort learning how to use it and she loves it.

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      Once they brought on Podcasts and wouldn’t stop shoving Joe Rogan on every screen I absolutely cancelled. I never listened to a single podcast on there yet they were the overwhelming majority of my recommendations. I was also getting annoyed with the random pop-ups of ‘hey wanna try this band that sounds absolutely nothing like anything you’ve ever listened to on our platform before?’…nope! Didn’t need Audible either. The price just kept going up…like guys, I want a music app. That’s it. Nothing else.

      Uninstalled Spotify over a year(or 2 or 3?) ago…don’t really miss it.

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      I picked up some mp3 players with Bluetooth for about $7 each on aliexpress. Just finished acquiring my entire Spotify liked list. In my house, we’re getting back on the correct timeline.

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        3 days ago

        I gotta ask - why not just play the music on your phone?

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          It’s 6 years old and the battery isn’t removable. Plus I can leave the mp3 synced to the speakers all day and not have to worry about calls or leaving the house interrupting it.

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            Ah, I see. I was for some reason only assuming portable use. Hope it’s working well for you!

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          In total, less than an hour of my time. Maybe 6 hours to copy the playlists and download all of them, but I only had to copy/paste and hit go on the software. Honestly, if I knew it was this easy I’d have do we it years ago.

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      Or Snapchat, or Instagram, doesn’t matter. Remember memes like “Microsoft Office will now have Stories”?

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        My post was not supposed to be that TikTok specifically is bad.

        my point was every platform (that uses attention as money generator) would eventually be some kind of short videos which emulates pov of user (vertical interface instead of TV horizontal interface) that encourage “engagements”

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    I’ve been saying for years the thing Spotify needs are short vertical format video clips. The whole “music” thing is a fad.

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    Zawinski’s law: Every program attempts to expand until it can read mail. Those programs which cannot expand are replaced by ones which can.

    This is just the modern equivalent: Intra-site messaging.

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    I stopped using Spotify years ago and every time I hear about it I only get my decision further reinforced. What an absolutely cancerous company.