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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 orangeoxidation »

neximo64 wrote: post #4

I 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.

Well put.

It seems they are trying to optimize for listener time. It makes sense for the free offering as listening time is advertisement time is income.

But for the paid version what they should strive for is costumer satisfaction.

Turns out that's a lot harder to measure and related, but not at all the same as listening time or 'engagement'.

Taking thrice as long and twice as many clicks to get where I want to be increases the engagement metric and my dissatisfaction.

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

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Post by layer8 »

jasonkester wrote: post #110

Amazon's Kindle app is an even bigger offender in this category. It shows your library as a 4 x 4 grid of tiny cover thumbnail on your phone, so there is no hope whatsoever of reading a title. So you click one, and what does it do? It downloads the whole book then drops you in at whatever page you last read, then hides the book title and author. Unless you can recognize the cover photo (which changes to match the lat…

> It shows your library as a 4 x 4 grid of tiny cover thumbnail on your phone

You can switch to list view in the “⇵” menu (at least on iOS).

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

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Post by kirso »

lapser wrote: post #43

Spotify is horrendous. Their UI is subpar. Their mix of podcasts with songs is odd at best (seriously, I never listen to podcasts, why can't I switch it off completely?). Their shuffle is just not. Imagine listening to the same 20ish songs from a playlist of nearly 2k songs. How can you mess up shuffle that bad? It's also not easy to move away from it. It requires time and effort. Time that many don't have.

I always wondered about this. I had sooooo many songs saved yet I have been only listening to probably 20% of them. Why is that?

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

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Post by johnywalks »

lapser wrote: post #43

Spotify is horrendous. Their UI is subpar. Their mix of podcasts with songs is odd at best (seriously, I never listen to podcasts, why can't I switch it off completely?). Their shuffle is just not. Imagine listening to the same 20ish songs from a playlist of nearly 2k songs. How can you mess up shuffle that bad? It's also not easy to move away from it. It requires time and effort. Time that many don't have.

> podcasts with songs

I really hate that. They are completely different pieces of content but NOOOO, they want to be the "all audio" platform.

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

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Post by hanoz »

pnut wrote: post #108
danielovichdk wrote: post #48

I use Winamp for my MP3 collection that I downloaded of my T1 line at the office. When I turn that mother up on and my CRT monitor starts smoking because of the Winamp addons that spikes all kinds of shit whenever the tune is changing, then I know I have found the right track. Then I get cracking on the floor. Break dancing and caps flying around. The neighbors come jumping in the door and starts clapping and the mus…

Forgive me if I'm wrong but I suspect this comment is GPT3 generated. Regardless, it was hilariously absurd.

Oh no, can it already be that the memory of 90s internet culture is indistinguishable from the mad ravings of an intelligent machine?
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