Totally agree. They also have some stickiness going for them (at least for me). Now that I've organized my music in Spotify and have my habits in place that deal with the crummy UX, I've gotten numb to the poor UX.

Case in point, I make a daily playlist for running and that UX is frequently changing and often for the worse, but I deal with it because it's a habit that costs me a few seconds maybe a minute per day. The cost of switching to a new thing just feels daunting so I stay.

I also am guilty of enjoying the wrapped summaries at the end of the year :)

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mbonnet 12 hours ago | parent | next [-]

I definitely enjoy Wrapped. But also something that keeps me in Spotify is the social aspect. If I want to make a playlist for someone, 95% of people I know use Spotify, so I need to have Spotify.

	▲	voncheese 12 hours ago \| parent [-]
		Yeah this is a good point. They also have a feature that lets you build and mix playlists together with others, not my personal speed but adds to the stickiness.

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beart 12 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

I also enjoyed wrapped, but at some point they made it only viewable in the app. It was previously available in the browser. That was the last time I thought about it.

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megagpt4 15 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

We used to have a folder full of MP3 files and call that a playlist. Lightweight, works offline, and never changes without your consent.

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navane 14 hours ago | parent [-]

I'm going back. Storage on phones is so big now. You can have all your music local.

	▲	em3rgent0rdr 13 hours ago \| parent \| next [-]
		Good point. Regrettably, newer phones have eliminated external SD cards. I preferred upgrading my phone storage on demand and having external card for stuff like MP3s and videos and manually doing large data transfers directly on my computer.
	▲	brewdad 14 hours ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		I carry my entire music library on my phone in Opus format. Smaller than a similar quality MP3 and good enough for the times I’m likely listening offline (working out, riding transit, on a plane).

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