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But it’s been a hot topic recently, and not for any good reason.
In case you haven’t heard,Spotify has debuted an all-new designcoming soon to its mobile apps.
Remember Groove Music? I sure do.
For now, the Windows desktop client seems to be alright.
Trying to maximize the amount of time your eyes, rather than just your ears spend on it.
Businesses need to make money.
Remember Groove Music? I sure do.
But I’m an old-fashioned kind of music listener, and all of this just sounds awful to me.
It had everything I wanted.
It had music, and a simple, clean-looking app.
Remember when music was just music? Good times.
Why can’t we just have that again?
With spotty support for the established music services of the time, I simply gravitated to Microsoft’s own.
Microsoft’s music service was seriously underrated, though.
Whatever it was called at the time, it was just a good service.
Naturally, on Windows phones, both Xbox Music and Groove Music perfectly mirrored the overall system UI.
But they weren’t cluttered up with junk.
The apps were clean, well laid out, good-looking, and just nice to use.
And that applied across platforms.
The music selection was always great, too, in my opinion.
I’ve never judged a music streaming service on which has the biggest library.
What matters is finding the music I want to listen to, and Groove never failed in that regard.
It was a music service for listening to music.
That’s all I ever wanted.
It’s all I want right now.
Why does everything have to be a social app?
So we have to make the best alternative choice.
Apple Music doesn’t have podcasts built in, which is perfect because I don’t want that.
But it also has a good handle on recommending good music to me.
But this Spotify redesign is a bigger indictment of where everything seems to be going these days.
The same social space fighting to keep your eyeballs on it.
Do we need video, short form or otherwise pushed on us at every single turn?
Do we need to open every app and see stories front and center?
Just let us listen to music in peace.
