Spotify, I owe you an apology — my smart TV finally got Spotify after years of waiting, and now I love its roster of music videos

Spotify , I’m I owe you a huge apology.

For the past decade you’ve been my loyal music companion, but despite my tumultuous relationships with some of your features, your unmatched ubiquity means I can freely use you across my devices — with the exception, until recently, of my TV.

My Hisense 43A6NTUK smart TV is one of my favorite pieces of tech, despite it not being in the same caliber as the best TVs we test here at TechRadar, but it had been letting me down because of one thing: VIDAA OS didn't support the Spotify app.

Until now that is.

Spotify launched on VIDAA TVs at the beginning of June, but I wouldn't have known this if I hadn’t been casually flicking through my TV’s app carousel.

After waiting for the best part of two years for it to arrive, you can imagine how excited I was.

Since the best music streaming service landed on my TV not a day has gone by where I haven’t used it, and it’s filled a huge void.

And something miraculous happened in the process: I now enjoy viewing music videos on Spotify.

I've experienced a revelation (Image credit: Future / Rowan Davies ) Prior to buying a smart TV, the Amazon Fire TV Stick was my streaming device of choice, and it has always supported the Spotify app.

While I enjoy my playlists on mobile, streaming Spotify on the big screen offers an entirely different experience.

It’s not news that Spotify’s music video interface and I haven’t got along — its mobile experience is too clunky and disorganized for me — and I’ve always used YouTube to stream music videos as well as my favorite web shows.

Even if it meant enduring a painful amount of ads, I’ve always stuck by YouTube’s side.

I’d gotten used to YouTube’s way of doing things in the absence of Spotify’s TV app, but as soon as that app arrived I fancied trying something different.

The result? Goodbye YouTube. (Image credit: Future / Rowan Davies ) Before now, I’ve never understood why I could never get along with the Spotify music video interface, but I could with YouTube; then it clicked.