Nothing worse than losing a feature that was not even a feature. I know that sounds silly but I really was a little heartbroken. Why the ❤️ break? It’s how Spotify would let you transition from one song to the next if you held your finger on the screen and slide through the song list, like the analogue tuner on a radio, tuning into the next station.

I felt like a DJ-ing maestro mixing Adeles Hello into Frank Oceans Pyramids. It felt like the modern-day version of the analogue radial dial of a radio. It for me made the music feel a little less digital and that little bit more human.

Phasing and Fading in and out of songs.

Performance vs Magic

Don’t ask how this must have been affecting the performance and bandwidth of the streaming. It must have taken its toll; both simultaneously and in parallel keeping all the tracks buffering to be ready to play and also dual audio mixing too! But someone in the team felt that the magic outweighed the cost.

Apply Some Pressure

It was a funny little feature, one that I felt had been delicately crafted into the system, to create this seamless motion, phasing into one song to the next. You could even leverage your finger between two song titles and lean harder on one or the other to bring both songs into playing, one rising while the other fell away into the background. Finally like an elastic band you were pulling on, you let go it and resume back to the original song.

They say its not about what you do when people are looking, it’s what you do when no one is. I have asked many friends of mine that are either interested in UI/UX stuff or avid audiophiles, and nearly always no one had any idea what I was talking about. For me it is the little things. The little wiggleroom that allows you play and to have ownership in the expirence that makes it great. We all want to share our expirences but we also all want our own little moment withen them too.