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Goodbye, Slopify

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Re: Goodbye, Slopify

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Post by polishdude20 »

swyx wrote: post #11

without any hate to the well intentioned engineers working on the thing, spotify has just exceedingly poor product taste in any number of dimensions - the godawful ai dj they tried to force on pple - buying gimlet media and running it into the toilet. some of the world's best and favorite podcasts, gone because some swedish billionaire decided to throw all his money into foie grasing a perfectly fine niche media comp…

It may be the worst thing that's happened to musicians but as a listener, I feel like it's been the best for listeners?

Re: Goodbye, Slopify

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Post by clippyplz »

cobertos wrote: post #7
ssalka wrote: post #5

I stopped paying for Spotify years ago and instead make playlists on there that I can feed into any of the various websites that will rip mp3s for you. Yes they are 128kbps, but for casual listening, it's fine. Some tools will try to match against YouTube and download audio from there, since apparently in some cases YouTube will have higher audio quality. Unfortunately the free version of the Spotify iOS app is absol…

Where do you get the highest quality audio if you want to put in some work? I'd like to jump ship back to a personal library but don't know how I'm gonna extract these 2000 songs I only have 1/4 of locally

Soulseek is great for this kind of thing.

Re: Goodbye, Slopify

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Post by robbyt »

blackeyeblitzar wrote: post #13

Spotify is terrible but mostly because the interface is bad. It has so many frustrating changes that no one asked for that have accumulated over time and little annoyances / bugs that’ll never be fixed. I feel like basic things such as managing playlists or navigating my library are harder than they need to be. They deserve to lose. I’m curious about some of the newer services such as Qobuz or Deezer or Tidal. Are th…

Unfortunately many of thr same poor UI decisions are baked into Backstage, so soon you’ll have a similar experience deploying code onto your companies development platform.

Re: Goodbye, Slopify

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Post by swyx »

polishdude20 wrote: post #21
swyx wrote: post #11

without any hate to the well intentioned engineers working on the thing, spotify has just exceedingly poor product taste in any number of dimensions - the godawful ai dj they tried to force on pple - buying gimlet media and running it into the toilet. some of the world's best and favorite podcasts, gone because some swedish billionaire decided to throw all his money into foie grasing a perfectly fine niche media comp…

It may be the worst thing that's happened to musicians but as a listener, I feel like it's been the best for listeners?

really which part? that ui where it switches songs if your finger grazes it even slightly? and starts over completely when you try to flip it back, forgetting where you were? the loud non audio adjusted ads?

Re: Goodbye, Slopify

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Post by drpossum »

Boogie_Man wrote: post #9

I stoped using Spotify when they committed the unforgivable UI sin of "loading a page and then moving elements on that page when web calls complete" that resulted in me clicking on something other than what I had intended to because it changed with my thumb a nanometer from the screen. It was a good 20% of the time and it made me insane.

I guarantee that was some A/B testing and moving elements around drove what was technically engagement by 0.03% more. The best kind of engagement.
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