Worked with Spotify on a new certification program, then spent months waiting for Spotify to negotiate terms with the record labels. Built the requisite iOS and Android apps. Figured out how to build and ship them in big numbers. People started wondering if Mighty was just another Kickstarter, a cool idea that went nowhere. Tech writers went bananas over the Mighty, and more 9,000 people dropped $70 or so to pre-order one.īut then. Mendelson raised a bit more than $595,000 from Kickstarter and Indiegogo 1. Mendelson envisioned it as a workout companion, a way of letting people run and hike and Soulcycle without lugging their phone around. At its most basic, Mighty is an iPod Shuffle for Spotify. So you can understand why Anthony Mendelson, a Google engineer turned winemaker, felt nervous launching the Kickstarter for Mighty last year. But when was the last time you ripped a CD, or dropped 15 bucks on an album? Even the idea of choosing 5,000 songs to carry with you and plugging something into a computer to load them seems like an ancient ritual.
OK, maybe you have some Baby Driver-induced nostalgia for an iPod. Just up and drove a stake through its silicon heart as listeners traded 99-cent song downloads for $10 monthly subscriptions to all-you-can-listen services. You can read our review of the device here.Streaming killed the music gadget years ago. To access these new features, you'll need to update both the Mighty app and your Mighty's software. When you stop listening, your Mighty will remember where you've left off in any particular playlist or podcast, letting you return to that spot later on. Other tweaks include the ability to fast forward through songs and podcasts - your Mighty will tell you how many minutes you've skipped through the latter - as well as playback position memory. You'll find those through the Made For You menu item under Browse in the Mighty app. Mighty users will also now have access to curated Spotify playlists like Discover Weekly, Release Radar and Your Time Capsule. Select which episodes you want to hear and tap the SYNC button. Just head to Browse, then Podcasts, then click the series you want to listen to. If you follow a podcast on Spotify, it will now show up in the Mighty app. Well no longer, because Mighty has now released an update that will let you do just that. But missing so far has been the ability to sync the podcasts you follow on the music streaming service to Mighty.
The iPod Shuffle-like Mighty launched last year, giving users offline access to their Spotify playlists.
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