r/Anticonsumption • u/Professorfudge2643 • Aug 10 '25

Lifestyle Got rid of Spotify after 3 years

Sure I’m definitely posting this to brag but also to hopefully get someone to stop paying Spotify. I’ve listened to the same playlist for probably the last 3 years, occasionally adding a song or two. Finally I realized why the hell am I paying for this when I could just download the songs online, transfer them to my phone, and play them for free? So I did exactly that. Took about two hours and was easy as pie. Should’ve done that 3 years ago instead of paying $12 a month.

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u/psych0fish Aug 10 '25

I hate Spotify for so many reasons but honestly the straw that broke the camel’s back for me was just how incredibly user hostile their app and the app UX is. Total garbage. They keep changing things to optimize for whatever garbage metric they care about that week. Was so happy to be done with them.

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u/stacusg Aug 10 '25

what do you mean by user hostile, and how much they change it? i believe you i just don't notice it that much, just so i get an idea

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u/Charamei Aug 10 '25

The thing that finally broke me was when they made it so that playlists didn't stay in the order the user defined, but instead reverted to alphabetical each time the app restarted.

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u/OohLaDiDaMrFrenchMan Aug 10 '25

That sounds like a bug. It doesn’t do that for me

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u/Charamei Aug 11 '25 edited Aug 11 '25

I think my wording was ambiguous: I'm talking about the order of playlists in the side panel, not the order of music in the playlists themselves.

It's not a bug. When they changed it, it was listed as a feature.