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Hey there, listeners. It’s Brett Molina. Welcome back to Talking Tech. Leaving a music service isn’t exactly a harmonious process. I experienced this firsthand. I think about a year or two ago, I was on Spotify. And I had gotten an offer to try Apple Music for six months. I think it was through Verizon, I got a free six month test drive basically of Apple Music. So I decided, “All right. I’m going to cancel my premium plan. I’ll check out Apple Music for a bit.” And as part of that process, Apple Music was fine, I eventually went back to Spotify. But one of the things I learned as I did that was if, say, you have playlists of a lot of music that you really enjoy, those don’t really carry over when you change subscriptions.
I would say it’s probably the biggest pain of trying to switch music services if you decide to do that. I write about this in a story that you can read on tech.usatoday.com. It’s not like albums where you know the album, you love album, and you switch services, the album’s still there. Playlists are personal. You might have themes. They’re different tracks you love and you have them in a certain order. And you have them for whatever reason. Say you have…
