[Podcasts] Split out podcasts into separate app

[pwilczynski]

There have been many posts about improving the UI for podcasts within the Spotify app. But the more reasonable architectural decision seems to be to use a separate app for podcasts / audiobooks. Trying to cram too much into the spotify music app is confusing; it bloats the experience and distracts the user.

As an episodic medium with repeat consumption and curation, podcasts are just very different than traditional music. In particular, once I've decided to listen to a podcast, the likelihood of me wanting to listen to music is extremely low - podcast-specific search, prioritization and discovery is much worse when mixed up with musical content. 

[tardis2]

I've been using the spotify app for years and loving it and I want to be able to listen to podcasts through the app for ease, but I will often alternate between listening to a queue of podcasts and music multiple times throughout the day. At present there is no way to switch between a music queue and a podcast queue and because of that I will never listen to podcasts through spotify. I listen to tens of hours of podcasts each week, so having a separate queue for them that doesn't interfere with my music queue is essential to me. I don't care if it's a separate app or tab, but the status quo is entirely infeasible.

[Mmolla]

This should really have more votes based on how many of the much-higher-ranked problems would be fixed by it. Maybe Spotify will take this into account as this suggestion is a stone that will elegantly kill a lot of birds.

[shoesmcgoose]

I don't want to pay for podcasts or audiobooks. At all, like ever. 

I signed up for the best music service, which give me the best recommendations for discovering new music. 

The experience now is so bloated it's insane. And the reallotments of resources is clearly affecting shuffle gauged by everyone I know complaining about it playing the same 10 songs over and over. Kinda like DJ does. 

I want a plan to just pay for music only. And a just music only experience. 

If you cannot offer that, you will lose people to those that can provide the superior music experience you used ot.