Spotify: Music and Podcasts 12+

I personally love this app. I have had it for over 4 years, and it’s been an app I use daily. If you are thinking about getting it, for sure get the Premium plan, no ads, endless skipping of songs, shuffle play, and a good amount of more things. One thing I will say is frustrating is the constant change of the like button to songs, they removed the heart for whatever reason and with that they made adding a song to a playlist but not your liked songs a lot harder, with a drop down feature you have to scroll down to find the playlist you want. I will say that I love that you can get to choose if you want your playlists public or not because let's be honest some playlists do not need to see the light of day but can still be enjoyed in peace. I also like what they did with the front page, being able to just swipe right to click onto our profile and access our settings much easier. My most favorite feature that might not be new but I did just discover, is on that same page where we access the settings and our profile there is this “Recents” tab where you can go and see all of the songs you’ve listened to and the amount of times I’ve used it to find a song I liked in someone else's playlist, or a podcast episode I was listening to but didn’t save, my lord I love that feature so much. But overall it’s a really good app and something that if you get it, it will be used in your daily life if you are a fanatic music listener.

Dawn has been an accessible, passionate and inspiring leader of W. I’ve heard her story before but feel moved by it over again each time I hear it. She shares with her GEMS her appreciation and acknowledges each time we meet how she couldn’t manage without us. Meeting with new widows as a First Connect is so gratifying but, for me, the meeting begins with some apprehension. Am I going to be able to help this woman who may be crying through some or most of our talk? Will she feel she is in a safe space? Will she feel I understand her pain? Will she feel she’s made the right choice? Will she feel some hope even though she’s feeling quite hopeless in this moment. This stranger shares the most intimate details of her loss and devastating details of her grief. I am honored to be the one this new widow trusts. If she feels some relief from our talk, I am grateful. Dawn encourages us to embrace and share as First Connects with our new widows. Dawn listens to our experiences and understands and asks for feedback and suggestions. She acts on those suggestions. We feel part of her mission. I enjoyed this podcast tremendously. As the host, you asked questions that were spot on and the ones your audience would want to hear the answers that Dawn gave. I loved the humor too. It did not diminish or dishonor the grief aspect at all. Great interview.

Used to be better, has a lot of difficulties that I’ll talk about.
Premium is a pretty good deal but good luck getting it, not only do you have to go to a website but the chances of that website working properly on your phone is unlikely. Your address is needed to purchase premium but whenever I go to put it in there isn’t a place where I can tap on to put it in. You used to be able to minimize ads when you were on the app but now you have to watch the many ads, which also show up every 5 songs. They make ads about their own playlists like they couldn’t just make it pop up on the homepage, and they also repeat ads over and over again until you can recite them word for word. They say they listen to their users but only to the users who write good reviews. When share playing with your computer almost all the time there will be lyrics in the song that don’t even play. Another thing that I find very annoying is the whole 6 skips every HOUR which is not at all worth it because even when skipping you still get ads. Then there’s choosing songs, say you look up a song and try to play it, there will be 5-6 songs that you will have to listen to or skip through to listen to the song you want to, I like the idea of suggesting songs but it should at least play the song I want to listen to first or second. This is all I have to complain about and I hope I can get some fixes or at least a response.