[schnevets]

I always felt that streaming services had untapped potential in "playing" with content. Previously, a trivia game would need specific rights to use movie clips, but if the user has an HBO Max subscription and already could access all of those films, there isn't much harm in using clips (other than unrealized licensing fees).

In the same way, I hope Spotify is thinking of every way people may hear music. Not just active listening but trivia (like Heardle), radio shows, amateur documentaries, etc. The underlying technology is already there. I'm sure designers have many more ideas, but there is always the looming threat of Cease & Desist.

[nwsm]

The problem many complain about though is that this shifts the point of the Spotify product. Those who want a clean interface for listening to music, often specifically out of one's library of "liked" albums and playlists, now deal with a UI encumbered with podcasts, social features, and I guess now games.

At some point soon there will be room for a "just your music" streaming service.

[skrtskrt]

I've used Spotify for ~9 years years exclusively for music streaming and I guess I get a podcast suggestion on the homepage every once in awhile but I just ignore it and move on. You can permanently hide the "friend" view in settings, no one I know has used it since college.

Aside from moving some small things around so they take 2 taps instead of 3 or 4, their UI has barely changed at all. It has a working Linux client. It has boundless capability to help you discover new music.

I don't know why people on here act like Spotify is an abomination, you can still just buy and own your music if you insist.

Literally the only thing I would change is for them to pay the artists more. And I'd happily pay triple the price to make that happen.

[blowski]

I quit Spotify a few months back for this reason.

[saghm]

Ideally they could make each of these separate apps. There's no technical reason why multiple apps couldn't be published by Spotify that all use the same IP.

[candiddevmike]

They keep adding more shit so they can "justify" subscription increases. I'm a Spotify user and look forward to paying for Heardle and never using it (because why offer a cheaper, non-heardle tier?)

[Benjaminsen]

The main reason we don’t see a lot innovation in this space from the streaming services, is that using the music inside an interactive experience such as a game requires a different license.

It would be fairly simple to make a tap/swipe/press game with a similar experience to rock-band, automatically for all music on a service. But having looked into this, together with a few major music services, the license cost made it almost impossible in practice.

[jlarocco]

No thanks.

I’m already annoyed that UI on iPhone is too “busy” and there’s no way to turn off the lyrics display.

If they want to add extra crap, they should put it in a new app.

Even more so now that libspotify is gone.

[stingraycharles]

As we’re adding single data points, I like to submit that I’m fairly interested in seeing what this has to offer.

Just today I was pleasantly surprised I was seeing some music videos while playing Spotify content and I actually appreciated watching them while exercising, because frankly, there’s no other way I would ever watch a music video any other way nowadays.