The only semi-relevant new thing Spotify had was music recommendations, but I never cared about that. I've never had trouble finding good music organically, nor even the need to listen to new songs all the time.

So yeah, for me, it never was more convenient than what I had before and I don't think I've missed anything.

[–] guy@piefed.social 1 points 5 days ago (1 children)

How did you solve music on your phone without having to connect it to your computer and transfering it? :o

[–] Azzu@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 5 days ago (1 children)

I still used my cassette player

[–] guy@piefed.social 1 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Haha wow! So you transfered downloaded songs to cassette? That's dedicated 🤘 I had a walkman but got a smartphone not long after

[–] Azzu@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 3 days ago (1 children)

I was joking. I didn't think "transferring music to phone" is any problem at all, because I simply had a folder set up to sync. But it seemed like you needed Spotify to be super convenient and no alternative to be possible, so I just joked and didn't say anything about my real setup.

[–] guy@piefed.social 1 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Oh sorry 😅 text is difficult sometimes. I didn't need anything. I merely meant that before Spotify you had to do things like that. If you forgot then you didn't have your new music.

[–] Azzu@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 3 days ago (1 children)

No, sync can be automatic. There's no way to forget.

[–] guy@piefed.social 1 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Yes, absolutely. Look, you're missing my point. Before Spotify you had to download or rip your music to your computer and transfer it to your phone. If you forgot/didn't have time to do that, you were left without your new music.

With Spotify that disappeared. It was a major convenience to suddenly not having to bother getting new music in the first place and not having to synchronize folders in the second.

You never used Spotify. That's cool and it's great that you had a working solution going for you!

[–] Azzu@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

And you are missing my point.

Downloading the music and transferring it to your phone can work automatically, you don't have to do it yourself. The manual way is what most people know, including yourself. But I never did anything but press on a button, and suddenly a song was on my computer and on my phone. One button press.

That's exactly the same as what Spotify does.

[–] guy@piefed.social 1 points 2 days ago

I can't say I was very tech savvy at the arrival of Spotify so that's fair. My setup at the time required me to connect my phone to the computer to do any syncing. OTA wasn't a thing for my phone then at least.

I'm not gonna keep arguing with you about this :)