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Dear Spotify, can we just get a table of songs?

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Re: Dear Spotify, can we just get a table of songs?

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Post by mszcz »

brunooliv wrote: post #3

Spotify used to be absolutely amazing, it really was!! It was my go to platform... Now it's just embarrassingly BAD and essentially unusable unless you're paying for it

Yeah, and that whole Spotify HiFi fiasco? Announce and not deliver? I put off buying good headphones waiting for those assholes. Year end came, cancelled my subscription out of spite, went for Tidal and bought the headphones. As soon as Qubuz becomes available I'll try that.

Re: Dear Spotify, can we just get a table of songs?

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Post by zorr »

I have similar issues with their desktop app and the UI seems to get worse over time.

Their API is pretty good and I've used it to build a PoC desktop client using JavaFX that works using simple table controls and local Sqlite caching so I can search/filter my playlist "library". The API even has playback controls and nowplaying support. Pretty much everything needed to build an alternative usable client.

The reason I did not continue with it and I'm still stuck with their desktop-(but-actually-web)-client is that the playback control API seems to be blocked by Sonos so I cannot use it to control my main listening devices.

I love Spotify as a service but their clients are horrible.

Re: Dear Spotify, can we just get a table of songs?

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Post by intothemild »

quickthrower2 wrote: post #2

Netflix and Amazon are terrible. Want to continue what you were watching? Gonna have to find where we hid that this time, g’luck!

It's why I'm being driven back to piracy, because the UI/UX is do horrible on these platforms, that and believe it or not because Content discovery is easier a couple of the piracy apps look at what I have in my collection, and do recommendations off that... And guess what.. it's really good.

So a bunch of people in their spare time seem to be doing a better job than Netflix, why is that? Because I don't think Netflix is trying to achieve the same goal

They are trying to push content Netflix wants you to watch. Not content that you want to watch.

Re: Dear Spotify, can we just get a table of songs?

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Post by [deleted] »

raydiatian wrote: post #20

A concise explanation: functionalism is secondary to the attention economy for modern media platforms. Hard to advertise in a functional list grid, but yeah like fuck, I’m right there with you. It’s to the point where I’d rather just steal the album off of YouTube. At least there’s an ad-blocker.

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Re: Dear Spotify, can we just get a table of songs?

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Post by slowmotiony »

I like how the OP mentioned "Spotify's buddy, Apple Music". I work in IT for 15 years and I legit have problems navigating the app, I thought I must be stupid or something. Same with Tidal, just absolutely abhorrent UI where nothing makes any sense. Wanna go back to the Playlist you were literally just listening to a couple hours ago? That would be four clicks, three scrolls, a swipe and two jumping jacks. Want to listen to your favorite song from that playlist? Well then I hope it's not a long playlist because we removed the album arts for no reason. Guess you gotta squint your eyes pretty hard while scrolling and you'll find it eventually. Good luck.

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Post by baby »

I’ve been extremely frustrated by Apple Music/iTunes Match over the years. The whole reason I use that combo is that I got a big library of MP3 of my own, and this allows me to upload them as well as download my whole library. It doesn’t always work though, I’ve noticed that songs have disappeared over the years which is worriesome. I constantly get errors when I try to add new songs. Chinese or nicher songs are not always on Apple music, but always on youtube, so I sometimes have to download the song from youtube in MP3. It’s hard to figure out what songs I’ve listened to when I listen to their radios (so that I can add them to my library). And in general searching for a song in my library (basic feature) is an awful experience. Should I move to spotify?

Re: Dear Spotify, can we just get a table of songs?

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Post by raydiatian »

texasbigdata wrote: post #11
brunooliv wrote: post #3

Spotify used to be absolutely amazing, it really was!! It was my go to platform... Now it's just embarrassingly BAD and essentially unusable unless you're paying for it

I mean, if it's free anything above zero is good. Barely useable is still useable.

Quick Google search says they net about $5/mo per free user on ads alone.

I’d honest rather go back to buying the albums.

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