Source: Joseph Keller / iMore
The annual tradition in the world of music streaming is here for those who celebrate. Today, Spotify Wrapped, the music streaming service’s annual celebration of your music choices, launched for all users of the service.
Spotify Wrapped has become… an event. Over the years, the company has added more and more fanfare for the event. Not only can you run through an Instagram-like story from your entire year’s musical journey, but this year the company also brought podcasts on stage.
Additionally, Spotify users now have access to their “Top Songs 2021” and “Your Artists Revealed” playlists. The first does not require any explanation. The second is an interesting playlist that includes handpicked songs and interviews from some of your favorite artists.
People love to share their Spotify Wrapped with friends, family, and social media. People love to make fun of the whole thing, but, for anyone who loves music and more importantly loves sharing it and sharing it with others, it is a great time of year to bond with people through music. . It’s also a lot of fun to make fun of the music that ends up on everyone’s playlist (my title song of the year, for example, is a remix of Imagine Dragons’ “Radioactive.” I wear this badge with honor).
While enjoying browsing through my “Top Songs 2021” playlist and enjoying Spotify Wrapped day, I came across this tweet from photographer Tyler Stalman. More importantly, I found this comment on your post:
Funny if you can go further. Apple Music takes time to load across all devices. The Mac application cannot be used. iPhone / iPad / Mac cannot communicate with each other. The playlists are not that great. Horrible follow-up to the songs that I like. I want to use Apple Music. But it’s so bad. Why do you use Spotify?
– Mike McDonald (@mikegmcdonald) December 2, 2021
This comment sums up all my feelings about Apple Music so far. I WANT to use Apple Music. It would be very convenient as it is included with all levels of Apple One, Apple’s subscription bundle service. It’s also built into all the Apple stuff that I basically own all of it. However, the performance issues and weak music recommendations (compared to Spotify) are enough to keep me on Spotify.
In fact, I left Spotify for Apple Music. Twice. For months, I tried to ignore performance issues with the iPhone app and the fact that the Mac app was there to look clean but do next to nothing. I trudged through the “Made For Me” playlists, which contained music that must have been compiled for me by someone who was rolling a dice. I also tried to get over the fact that the app was, even though Apple pretty much created the digital music industry with iTunes, sometimes weird to navigate. However, after almost a year (both times), I went back to Spotify and was glad I did.
Don’t get me wrong, Spotify isn’t without its problems either. Support for the HomePod doesn’t exist yet, and while they were able to build an Apple Watch app and stream it on cell phone for a while, it took YEARS to implement the feature. Even Apple Music has arguably some design wins over Spotify with its Now Playing screen and more advanced audio features with Spatial Audio and Lossless Audio.
No music streaming service will be perfect, but if ever there was one that got as close as possible, it’s Spotify. The user interface and navigation are clean and easy to understand, the custom playlists are spot on, and the app performance (on mobile and desktop) is really responsive.
Spottify gets the main user experience right and for that you can implement quirky yet adorable features like Spotify Wrapped.
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