OMGEEEE +1000 for the OP
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?
#432I 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 dear. You're about to be kicked off so many lawns.
Re: Dear Spotify, can we just get a table of songs?
#433Earlier quoted context omitted.
Dystopia is when I have to use electron and a slightly inconvenient UI. HN users must have pretty comfy lives.
isn't that.. exactly what a dystopia is? The archetypical dystopia is superficially utopian, often driven by tech progress and excess of comfort. They're not torturing people in cages in Brave New World, they're giving them too much Soma
People tend to get confused between a dystopia and a post apocalyptic wasteland
Re: Dear Spotify, can we just get a table of songs?
#434Spotify 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.
The worst UI offense to me is the new playlist view that came with their new desktop UI last fall. They went from having seperate columns for Song Title and Artist Name and bundled them into two rows within a single column. Not only does this make scanning through a long list of songs/artists much more difficult, it means they've taken away the ability to sort a playlist by Artist which seems like a major downgrade in my opinion as someone who keeps most playlists sorted by Artist most if not all the time.
Re: Dear Spotify, can we just get a table of songs?
#435Earlier quoted context omitted.
Physical storage space. ;) My laptop is smaller than any collection of CDs and can store an entire building of them in the space of 12 jewel cases. If you include my phone and a cellular connection for streaming, the entire world of music can be accessed in a device smaller than any portable CD player. And the speakers in my iPhone are better than most stereos from the same era. We truly live in the world where scien…
> And the speakers in my iPhone are better than most stereos from the same era. Did you live in this era? I don’t think you know what you are talking about.
Right, I think people have no idea that home hifi speakers and amps even in the 1960s could sound essentially as good as today when fed with a good source. However that does not mean that one of those systems found in estate sale will sound ok today. The materials degrade and sound nothing today like they did when sold.
I remember my dad's mid-60s KLH speakers sounding good with a mid-70s Sansui solid state receiver in the early 80s, before one of the tweeters fried and the paper woofer cones really deteriorated.
I remember how beautiful his early 60s Citation tube amp sounded in the early 90s, after we rebuilt it with new electrolytic capacitors and tubes, hooked it up to mid-80s Infinity bookshelf speakers, and drove it with a Sony CD player that had a built-in volume control for its line-out. That amp was based on a video amplifier circuit design and so had decent characteristics not just past audible but nearly into MHz (if it weren't for the low-pass filtering effects of the final transformers and speakers).
I remember how those same Infinity speakers, despite poly woofer cones, also degraded by the mid-90s due to the endemic fungal rot that took all the foam speaker surrounds of that era. A power spike or transport damage also killed one of the tweeter coils. I lived for a while overseas and found an affordable shop where a guy hand rebuilt these speakers for me, replacing the rotten woofer surrounds with contemporary butyl rubber and rewinding the tweeter coil. They sounded just like new again, and I was happy to confirm that my ears were not to blame. I left those behind after another move, so cannot report on their longevity.
It amuses me to think that my "new" hifi setup is almost 15 years old now, with tower speakers and a class D Yamaha receiver that I use as the DAC whether driven by HDMI or TOSlink from a USB audio peripheral. Just like my earlier hifi setups, the limiting factor is room acoustics and practical matters like not upsetting nearby cohabitants or neighbors. I continue to be somewhat boggled by the atrocious sound people are willing to inflict on themselves with phone, computer, or little bluetooth speakers that don't even sound as good as an early 80s "ghetto blaster".
Re: Dear Spotify, can we just get a table of songs?
#436Earlier quoted context omitted.
Yeah I switched to Tidal when I learned about Spotify’s data sharing and privacy concerns a little over a year ago, but I was also so frustrated with Spotify’s UI always changing in frustrating ways and making it worse. They’d break features that I used often (playlist sorting broke, for example). I’d contact customer support and they’d go through this whole “uninstall and reinstall the app, does it still happen?” …Y…
Tidal doesn’t even let me play with it for a while to see if I like it to subscribe…
They have an ad supported free tier now
Re: Dear Spotify, can we just get a table of songs?
#437Spotify 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.
What really floors me is their lyric integration. Initially I though “oh cool neat”, and although I never noticed inaccuracies, I was willing to let it to, lyric listings aren’t always 100% accurate anyway, especially for older underground stuff of people who have indecipherable vocals at times (Mike IX Williams for example) However as time passed I noticed in a ton of the songs I was listening to, the lyrics would b…
Lyrics are provided by Musixmatch, and are user contributed. If lyrics are missing or bad, it's because Musixmatch has it like that. You can contribute!
Re: Dear Spotify, can we just get a table of songs?
#438Earlier quoted context omitted.
Many people bring up the "discover new music" argument. It is probably subjective, but for me this has never been an issue. There are so many way to discover new music today, there are tons on youtube and people recommend in the comments, you see a mention of something and head over to Wikipedia, follow some links, and so on. I don't need an algorithm for it, an algorithm that most likely is more optimized for revenu…
> there are tons on youtube and people recommend in the comments I mean if Spotify UX is bad, YouTube is absolutely trash. I have to pay to be able to stream media if my phone is locked.
There are apps that work around this. I use NewPipe. No matter how bad the Youtube app is there is plenty of music to find there
Re: Dear Spotify, can we just get a table of songs?
#439Spotify 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.
The worst UI offense to me is the new playlist view that came with their new desktop UI last fall. They went from having seperate columns for Song Title and Artist Name and bundled them into two rows within a single column. Not only does this make scanning through a long list of songs/artists much more difficult, it means they've taken away the ability to sort a playlist by Artist which seems like a major downgrade i…
Press once: sort by title, twice: reverse title, thrice: sort by artist, four times: reverse artist.
Horrendous, but the capability is still there and, of course, completely impossible to find.
Re: Dear Spotify, can we just get a table of songs?
#440Netflix 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 Netfli…
What apps do you recommend?