I’ve been working on degoogling and overall shifting away from the problem corps etc, I finally made the switch away from android (as much as I can for the moment) and picked up the FP6/e. Overall, it’ll due for what I need and the fact that I want to be on my phone less.

However, I need help on the music side! Ive had a Spotify for a decade now and am dragging my feet on the switch because life is busy and that’s a lot of curated playlists I’m not ready to part with yet. Issue is, Spotify just doesn’t work consistently on the FP, randomly stops, won’t play, will recommend I play downloaded music while it buffers when I’m already listening to downloaded stuff, god forbid I skip a song or change tracks in anyway. It freezes up, same with podcasts, can’t skip their mid episode ads because it’ll freeze up again.

So, I figured I’d let this be the push I need to finally break free and download audio directly to the device. I’m still trying to figure out a way to just import my playlists and pirate them as is (if someone wants to throw me a bone there too, Id appreciate it), but I started with some podcasts that allow direct download. The phone does not allow me to listen to more than 40 sec before it pauses, I press play again, it restarts, and pauses again at the 30-40sec mark. I skip ahead and it plays the file where I skip to correctly, but stops after the same time frame. Also doesn’t allow me to speed up the playback more than 1.9 (I usually keep it at x2-2.5, people talk slow).

I really want to enjoy this phone and all that it stands for, I don’t need the top camera quality (I barely take pics as is), I don’t need the fastest speeds, or the most RAM (I’m not a gamer). I need it to do basic phone functions, search the internet, tell time, and let me listen to audio files. Music in the ear keeps the voices in the rear!

I would be very grateful for any assistance here!