[VSpike]

I've noticed that the offline experience on Spotify is utterly broken and has been for a while. I remember it being quite good when I first started using it, but it just seems to have got worse to the point of being unusable. I figured it was maybe just Android but my kids who are iPhone users said the same. We live in a rural area and use Spotify on the move a lot (on buses, car journeys, bike rides) and are often without signal so offline is essential. Maybe Spotify devs assume everyone has good 5G/Wifi and never actually test it out? Whatever the reason, having the option to make my own offline library to work around deficiencies in the service I'm paying £16.99 a month for seems like fair use to me (yeah, I know UK law has no such concept but I can sell the idea to myself at least). I might even dig out my old MP3 player as mentioned in other comments.

[CTDOCodebases]

Offline? Try listening to a podcast. It has to be one of the worst pieces of software I have to interact with regularly. The second last podcast would skip back to the same timestamp every time I switched audio or exited the app. If they are going to charge money and still push adds at least give me the option to use an alternate client.

[Glaydur]

You didn't really specify how it's "utterly broken". As an anecdote, I've been listening to Spotify a lot whenever I drive or go jogging, all offline since I don't have data and it's been working well for me.