With Spotify Wrapped having launched this previous week, I can’t assist however consider three particular characteristic requests I’d wish to see carried out into Spotify. As somebody who works from residence and spends so much (76,589 minutes this yr, to be precise) of time with Spotify on within the background, I’m intimately accustomed to the app and its foibles.
Lots of you’ll learn this text and inform me the simplest answer to my Spotify woes could be to easily change to Apple Music, and that’s nice. Earlier than you do, although, know this: I’ve already given Apple Music a go, and I completely loved it, and I completely favor its UI to Spotify’s by a landslide. Nevertheless, the fact is that I’ve been a Spotify subscriber since 2013 – which means I’ve a decade of my musical id saved inside Spotify. The considered switching (re: dropping) that a few years of playlists isn’t one thing I’m ready to do.
Apple Music disclaimer, carried out. Shifting on to the three issues I’d like to see Spotify implement the iOS app.
Podcast cleanup
Whereas not everybody likes that Spotify has podcasts to start with, I’m not a kind of individuals – in truth, I really like that I can hearken to each my music and my favourite podcasts inside the similar app with out having to obtain a separate, extra podcast app to additional litter my iPhone.
That mentioned, Spotify’s podcast feed is… a multitude.
Within the image above, there are three podcasts that I’ve performed, as famous by the checkmark icon. In actuality, I’ve solely listened to Offline with Jon Favreau, and the opposite two I’ve “marked as performed,” which means I by no means actually listened to them to start with.
For those who hearken to a number of podcasts, the “marked as performed” characteristic – which produces the identical consequence as listening to a podcast the entire approach via – means that you’re left with a graveyard of podcasts that serve no objective besides to litter your feed. What I’d like to see on this house is the power to dismiss podcasts you now not wish to see (assume: swiping to delete/archive emails), permitting you to solely maintain within the feed the podcasts you’re at the moment listening to or haven’t but had the possibility to listen to.
Personalizing the homepage
Spotify ought to give us the power to rearrange our homepage; not solely would this quell the Spotify-subscribers-who-don’t-listen-to-or-care-about-podcasts crowd, however it will enable all of us to focus on the sides of Spotify that we’re most concerned with. I’m not speaking a few ton of autonomy, simply the power to maneuver rows of options – new music, not too long ago performed, podcasts, Spotify Originals, and so forth. – right into a homepage that is smart for every person’s preferences.
The above image is the highest half of my present homepage, and whereas I perceive that Spotify is pushings its Wrapped characteristic throughout its platform, I’m already over it. As a replacement, I’d like to see newly launched music by artists Spotify is aware of I hearken to or prompt podcasts primarily based on what I at the moment take pleasure in.
Journey mixes
A real pie-in-the-sky second for me could be if Spotify, utilizing your location, allowed you to toggle on a “Journey” characteristic.
A few years in the past, an excellent good friend and I took a two-week roadtrip over the summer time. We went from Michigan to Colorado, Colorado to Utah, Utah to Wyoming, after which Wyoming again residence to Michigan. Whereas we had been after all ready with a few collaborative playlists that had been peppered all through our dreamy two week roadtrip throughout the nation, a “Journey” characteristic that pulled native artists right into a playlist would have made it that rather more particular – a Roadtrip Combine, if you’ll.
The identical may very well be utilized anytime you visited a brand new nation. Reasonably than solely trying out which music is standard beforehand, it will be wonderful if you happen to may open Spotify in your telephone whereas on a seaside in Belize to see a playlist tailor-made with native musicians, songs, and artists out of your precise location.
Wrap-up
I do know Spotify leaves so much to be desired by Apple followers, however for these of us who’ve been with Spotify a very long time, these options would make for a extra personalised, user-friendly in-app expertise.
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