[foozed]

A couple of months ago I asked my wife to put on an a specific album in the car. I was surprised to find out she had just turned on the spotify artist shuffle. She then explained that this is how she listens to all music on spotify: search artist, press the big green button. This is very anecdotal, but since then i have been amazed to find out that a huge chunk of < 30y olds i have asked listen to music exactly this way.

I'm still not sure if those users use spotify this way because the ui is so bad or if the ui is molded towards those users...

[ufmemo]

I bet you're right on you last point. It's a sign of how irrelevant albums are today. I bet if the UX team's average age was 45+, the UX would center more around the album construct.

The post complained about album art for podcasts, i bet that's more of a symptom of Spotify slapping Podcast support over what has already been created for music.