![]() ![]() ![]() That was around the same time Spotify launched in the region. Eventually, they invited me to their headquarters to meet the software engineers and discuss my ideas with them.įinally, Anghami completely overhauled its app, but it still wasn't as polished as I'd like the app I use to relax and wind down to be. I would send the company endless bug reports, and they would fix them in the following releases. However, the experience was too buggy for my liking, despite the app's innovative features and active development. I could subscribe to Anghami's premium plan as well, considering it was officially available there. It was my only decent option, after trying several services with VPN, such as Pandora, Deezer, and others. The free plan's restrictions were too annoying, and logging in every other week was inconvenient.Īnghami was founded in Lebanon, and it's the first legal music streaming service in the region. I had already fallen in love with the service for reasons I'll mention below, but it was time to say goodbye. Additionally, I had to log back in every two weeks with VPN enabled - once it detected I was in an unsupported region. However, that meant I couldn't subscribe to its premium plan. So I resorted to VPN to access Spotify's free service. Streaming services only require me to log in, and they restore all of my preferences, listening history, and playlists.Īt the time Spotify wasn't available in the MENA region, and I was living in Lebanon. As someone who used to mod his phone's software a lot, factory resetting my device made backing up and transferring local music libraries a hassle. Cloud-based libraries were significantly easier to manage, and the latest releases were instantly made available. Eventually, that became too much of a hassle, and I decided to give official music streaming services a go. At first, I was using unofficial apps and services to build my local, offline library. I only started listening to music in my early teen years - when I bought my first Android smartphone. This article has been updated since its original publication.SCROLL TO CONTINUE WITH CONTENT Story Time: The first brush with online streaming Don’t be surprised if you find yourself listening to genres like “shimmer psych” or “acid techno” all day long. ![]() You can try Discover Quickly for free right here after you connect the web app to your Spotify account. But this could get annoying fast, especially if you’re already deeply embedded within another platform for audiobooks. But we reckon Discover Quickly could do it better. ![]() Spotify did say it plans to work on audiobook discovery, similar to its work surfacing songs, playlists and podcasts. Without Discover Quickly, it kind of feels like Spotify is a mess of music and podcasts, and soon the platform will offer audiobooks as part of the heap of content clamouring for your ears every time you open the app.Īfter Spotify announced it was acquiring an audiobook company Findaway to the growing list of content available through its app, it really got us thinking about how Discover Quickly could really be scaled to harness the possibilities. You can basically pull up any playlist on Spotify and do the same hovering and clicking trick.Īnd to make things even more fun, you can browse through songs almost as if you’re hovering over links to see where to go next. That new browsing method doesn’t just work with personalised playlists either. This effectively allowed me to curate my Discover Weekly playlist in a couple of minutes, instead of having to listen to the entire thing. When you mouse over one, the song starts playing halfway through, and you can click the album cover to zoom in on that particular song and artist.Ĭlicking a track will also save it as a list that you can quickly export to Spotify as a new playlist. The new Discover Quickly web app brings up your Discovery Weekly playlist as a grid of album covers. But an independent project from a couple of Spotify developers offers an amazing hack for exploring millions and millions of songs. The only problem was listening to all the new music takes forever. So when the company started building personalised playlists like Discovery Weekly and Release radar, I was hooked. My favourite thing about Spotify has always been music discovery. ![]()
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