Spotify lacks most of these features, instantly making it a non-contender for my podcast app of choice.įrom a business perspective, I understand why Spotify is pushing hard into podcasts. Overcast offers a wide-range of powerful features that have become must-haves for my podcast listening, including different playback speeds, chapters, Smart Speed, and more. No offense to people who listen to these playlists, but this sounds like an absolutely awful experience to me.įor context, I do listen to podcasts (and host a podcast), but I listen using Overcast on my iPhone, iPad, and Mac. The funny thing is, if you interact with a podcast a single time in Spotify, it instantly thinks you want to listen to every episode of that podcast – past, present, and future.Īdditionally, Spotify will even try and make playlists for you that mix and match podcasts and music. If I open the Spotify app on my iPhone right now and see sections for “Shows to try” right at the top as well as recommendations to shows that Spotify thinks I’ve listened to in the past. This manifests itself in multiple different ways, one of the most notable being the barrage of podcast recommendations in the “Home” tab of the Spotify app. The number one reason my experiment is over is because of Spotify’s absolute insistence that if you use Spotify for music, you must also use it for podcasts. Don’t get me wrong, I think much of the backlash against Rogan is fair, and Spotify’s response has been weaker than I’d like, but that’s not why my Spotify experiment is over. My issues with Spotify’s podcasting efforts, however, extend beyond Joe Rogan. Spotify’s efforts to push into podcasts have been in the headlines recently because of comments raised by a certain guy with a podcast – I think his name is Joe Rogan. Spotify Connect is also an impressive feature for using one device to control Spotify playback remotely on another. Its support for friend activity is also better than Apple Music in most regards. Spotify also offers the popular Wrapped feature at the end of every year, which is far more powerful than Apple Music Recap. First and foremost, Spotify is indeed much faster and more reliable than Apple Music when it comes to loading and searching for music. Unfortunately, despite the advantages Spotify has over Apple Music, there’s one thing I simply can’t overlook … What I liked about Spotifyīefore diving into the negatives, I wanted to first quickly touch on the things I did like about Spotify during my two months.
I decided to take a look at trying Spotify again, in hopes I could join in on the Spotify Wrapped 2022 fun.
When Spotify Wrapped 2021 launched in December, I had a severe case of FOMO set in as I saw my friends share their listening stats for the year.
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