+1 on the frustration. The UX is bad on desktops, mobiles and in-car systems..
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?
#32This is a big frustration of mine, too. The other is that Spotify is extremely biased towards playlist listening and makes browsing and listening to a library of albums really painful. The good news is that Spotify's SDK and API are actually powerful enough that you can build up an entire alternative interface, which is actually what I recently started doing: https://i.imgur.com/ar7VrYy.png . It's still work in progr…
looks neat. is the project open source?
Re: Dear Spotify, can we just get a table of songs?
#33Agree to this. I recently wanted to see a list of songs of one artist. I could not find it..
On desktop you might get something like this when navigating to an Artist page, find the Discography section and click the "show all" button. On the resulting page top right there is a dropdown where you need to select "All" instead of "albums" and make sure the list icon is active instead of the grid icon. Then it shows a list of songs segmented by release.
Re: Dear Spotify, can we just get a table of songs?
#34This is a big frustration of mine, too. The other is that Spotify is extremely biased towards playlist listening and makes browsing and listening to a library of albums really painful. The good news is that Spotify's SDK and API are actually powerful enough that you can build up an entire alternative interface, which is actually what I recently started doing: https://i.imgur.com/ar7VrYy.png . It's still work in progr…
> The good news is that Spotify's SDK and API are actually powerful enough that you can build up an entire alternative interface
In most big web services, actual functionality in the API normally seems to leads to its eventual deprecation. Will be interesting to see how this one plays out.
Re: Dear Spotify, can we just get a table of songs?
#35I actually hate this thing Spotify does. Before they had a way to sorting songs by playcount and it made it easy to find songs youd instantly like. To increase cross sell with underrepresented artists or whatever the strategy is with this UI its quite a detriment when looking for songs you want. If i wanted to discover artists id like to be able to do that myself, not have it be imposed on my search because of the wa…
>It's almost like a paid version of spam
time to sail those musical seas
Re: Dear Spotify, can we just get a table of songs?
#36Netflix and Amazon are terrible. Want to continue what you were watching? Gonna have to find where we hid that this time, g’luck!
Something funny about Netflix: after they implemented double thumbs up they made the three buttons (two thumps up, one, thumbs down) hidden behind one thumbs up icon and exposed on hover. Next to the My List button. The double thumbs up then is superimposed on the My List button. So if I move my cursor from right to left in order to remove some show from my List I might give it two thumbs up instead.
Re: Dear Spotify, can we just get a table of songs?
#37This is a big frustration of mine, too. The other is that Spotify is extremely biased towards playlist listening and makes browsing and listening to a library of albums really painful. The good news is that Spotify's SDK and API are actually powerful enough that you can build up an entire alternative interface, which is actually what I recently started doing: https://i.imgur.com/ar7VrYy.png . It's still work in progr…
looks neat. is the project open source?
It's not just yet, but a quick look at my GitHub - https://github.com/tom-james-watson/ - should tell how that's likely to work out. The good thing is that the app is all client-side and so there's no need to monetize.
Re: Dear Spotify, can we just get a table of songs?
#38This is a big frustration of mine, too. The other is that Spotify is extremely biased towards playlist listening and makes browsing and listening to a library of albums really painful. The good news is that Spotify's SDK and API are actually powerful enough that you can build up an entire alternative interface, which is actually what I recently started doing: https://i.imgur.com/ar7VrYy.png . It's still work in progr…
> The good news is that Spotify's SDK and API are actually powerful enough that you can build up an entire alternative interface In most big web services, actual functionality in the API normally seems to leads to its eventual deprecation. Will be interesting to see how this one plays out.
Yeah that of course is a worry I've had but hopefully the functionality is core enough that it should be pretty stable.
Re: Dear Spotify, can we just get a table of songs?
#39+1 on the frustration. The UX is bad on desktops, mobiles and in-car systems..
Where does it work well, tablets?
Re: Dear Spotify, can we just get a table of songs?
#40UIs are designed by children these days.