Joe Rogan says Spotify is \u201cgetting its sh*t together\u201d to compete with YouTube YT: JRE \/ SpotifyJoe Rogan has said that Spotify is \u201cgetting its sh*t together\u201d when it comes to hosting podcasts, as his fans continue to adjust to JRE episodes being available exclusively on the audio streaming service. The Joe Rogan Experience has, perhaps unexpectedly, grown to be one of the most listened-to podcasts in the world. The ex-MMA commentator has featured some of the world\u2019s biggest celebrities, including Kanye West, Elon Musk and Miley Cyrus. Given its popularity, many were shocked when it was announced, at the back end of 2020, that the podcast would be moving exclusively to Spotify, making the switch from its previous home on YouTube. Clips from episodes can still be posted to YouTube, but the episodes in their entirety are only available on the streaming platform. However, many have argued that listening to podcasts on Spotify is not as refined and user-friendly as it could be. Rogan himself addressed the problems in a recent episode with Hamilton Morris, with the pair discussing how user-friendly Spotify\u2019s podcasts are (or aren\u2019t), especially when compared to its major competitors. Rogan\u2019s guest, Morris, pointed out some of the issues he\u2019s had with the Spotify experience specifically, \u201cThis is the one thing that worries me about the move to Spotify. On YouTube, I could just fast-forward over a moment like this.\u201d He also pointed out that he couldn\u2019t increase playback speed, like you can on YouTube. \u201cSpotify is slowly but surely getting its sh-t together, when it comes to video playback and stuff,\u201d Rogan said. \u201cIt\u2019s not as smooth as it probably should have been when we first transitioned over in December, but [Spotify] just wasn\u2019t ready for the volume.\u201d He previously highlighted the famous Elon Musk meme, in which the tech billionaire was pictured smoking marijuana on his podcast. The image, and attached video clip, went viral. As a result, Spotify now allow podcasts to be played as videos, but the video player, some have argued leaves much to be desired. Comments, too, are not yet available to users. That\u2019s something Rogan wants to see change, though: \u201cThat\u2019s where YouTube shines over all over forums, is that they have that comments section, and I think Spotify needs to recognize that, and I\u2019ve tried to talk to them about that, and there\u2019s been some discussion about putting comments, but one of the things they said is: \u201cif we put comments on one podcast, we have to put them on all podcasts.\u201d\u201d Whether Spotify will move to accommodate Rogan\u2019s wishes remains to be seen but, given the multi-million dollar investment the podcast constituted, we wouldn\u2019t be surprised to see a \u2018Comments\u2019 feature on the audio streaming service soon, as well as improved playback and fast-forwarding abilities.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Joe Rogan says Spotify is \u201cgetting its sh*t together\u201d to compete with YouTube YT: JRE \/ SpotifyJoe Rogan has said that Spotify is \u201cgetting its sh*t together\u201d when it comes to hosting podcasts, as his fans continue to adjust to JRE episodes being available exclusively on the audio streaming service. The Joe Rogan Experience has, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-52248","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52248","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=52248"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52248\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=52248"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=52248"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=52248"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}