I'm still a subscriber because it's cheap and an easy way to listen to music but I hate the fact that I no longer discover music like I used to on Spotify.
I still listen on Spotify a lot---I have extensive playlists built up there over a decade. I keep thinking I should find a way out, though.
Indie Shuffle and Funk Whale have been good discovery tools for me lately.
I will never use Spotify for podcasts. Nothing against them having podcasts, but I have other ways to consume them. I would love to turn all that shit off in the UI, the same way I can turn off Radio and other things in iTunes.
But no, Spotify will forever push that shit on me - a paying customer - because they hope I will eventually relent under pressure and start using it, or something.
And that disrespect for their customers really sucks.
I concur with this. In my experience, ~3-5 years ago was like the golden age of music discovery for me regarding Spotify. These days my Discover Weekly is mostly a complete waste of my time.
Family Mix was incredible as well, I'm disappointed it was discontinued.
OTOH, Release Radar is my go to.
I've used the daily mixes and soundtrack to your day, both with middling success.
I'll give the others in that section a try though, thanks!
The Android app struggles with switching off of WiFi to cellular and vice versa -- I have to force stop the app and restart it regularly, I mean honestly it's almost every single day. It's really annoying. The UX is also atrocious. The UI will frequently load with stale state but it takes seconds for it to update. I'll go to tap some album or playlist and it'll get re-shuffled and I'll have tapped something entirely different. It's honestly pathetic.
I try not to view the tech world through rose-tinted goggles but it seems to me that the only thing that keeps this company alive is the fact that they're streaming. Same with Netflix, honestly. And Netflix has been having their lunch eaten for the last decade. I suspect Spotify will go through the same experience.