Free on the internet always comes with a price
A few years ago Spotify bought Anchor.fm, which was a podcasting platform that a lot of people got into. Cloud-based recording and editing and hosting. Now Spotify is closing the Anchor app down and replacing it apparently with a poor substitute.
Yet another reason to not ever tie your stuff to a company like Spotify. If you don’t own your domain name and have easy flexibility to move things around and control your process you are in a bad position.
In closing - F Spotify.