well I'm responding to my own ask here about liberating your content from closed/locked ecosystems
and I have to un-recommend using an app to download music from spotify, because apparently after awhile they catch on and then send you an email that your account has been suspended and it turns out not just suspended but full on disappeared—completely gone—and you have no way of even logging in to admin the podcasts you manage, not to mention years of playlists—but then if you just got on chat with them and promise to behave and are polite, they'll resurrect it all, lazarus out of the tomb, and you'll be back in business, jamming like Fred and Kyle and Beck Bennett when SNL was on Covid lockdown—"what's Fred jammin' on?"—but anyway, you're back in business and jamming again
phew
though perhaps this was that sign I've been waiting for to ditch the spotify monster once and for all
anyway: don't do it
