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Re: Fastpotify

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Post by tempesttempo86 »

rot256 wrote: post #238

Spotify is, without doubt, the worst piece of software that I still use on a daily basis. It's incredibly buggy, incredibly slow, and the UI has so many "usability inconsistencies". I find the Android app particularly bad, just a couple of examples: - Under a playlist you get a list of suggested songs, the UI element looks like a "regular song", but unlike every other "song" element the user has been trained to recog…

I recently started encountering full on crashes on iOS, as well as random freezing. Not to mention whole navigation just feels 'off', like canceling navigation mid animation. Nowadays, non-native apps don't have issues like that.

Re: Fastpotify

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Post by duxup »

rot256 wrote: post #238

Spotify is, without doubt, the worst piece of software that I still use on a daily basis. It's incredibly buggy, incredibly slow, and the UI has so many "usability inconsistencies". I find the Android app particularly bad, just a couple of examples: - Under a playlist you get a list of suggested songs, the UI element looks like a "regular song", but unlike every other "song" element the user has been trained to recog…

I’ll take it a step further and say I think the current music player-isms UX is just not easy to use and gets in my way of enjoying music…

Re: Fastpotify

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Post by jeffgreco »

This is cool. A few small thoughts:

- would love to be able to disable podcasts / anything non music related. it's my #1 gripe with the official Spotify client today.

- Winamp buttons shouldn't remain "pressed" in that play state

- Winamp doesn't like being stuck to one edge of the screen, after putting there and interacting it will often jump inward a bit

- Winamp could use the EQ in collapsed mode

- Would be nice for Winamp to remember its position (i think it grabs the NW corner of the large player every time?

Re: Fastpotify

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Post by crossroadsguy »

Semkas wrote: post #174

Lots of people seem to care about whether a project was built by hand over time by a few committed developers, or if it was vibe-coded in the past week by a single person. Whether the distinction matters or not, it would be nice for everyone involved if projects falling into the second category were more upfront about that.

I don't think it's needed or a fair ask. Even though project clearly shows one of the contributors as Claude. There are excellent AI assisted software out there and shite software "crafted" by bare fist and knuckles violently banging a mechanical keyboard in a glorious hacker dungeon.

When I commit I either mark it as my own commit if I've read through every line of that commit at least once (not skimmed), pushed back, changed, etc, or put as "ai@" if it was mostly "fine, do it…" or the "whatever… " phase. I never let AI write a single word of documentation or comment. And I made sure Claude removed its attribution the first time I started using it. Besides I was using GLM 5.2 at that time so Claude was not a fit anyway. I don't think they should have that default behaviour.

Re: Fastpotify

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Post by Citizen_Lame »

bayindirh wrote: post #282
wmichelin wrote: post #270

Earlier quoted context omitted.

This debate is irrelevant. It doesn't matter. Having the idea and the skills to dictate a stable piece of software are all that matter. There is no point in taking pride in typing out lines of code by hand. The entire world is moving on.

The problem is not the emittance of code by a statistical black box. It’s not even knowing how it works or even what it used to achieve the desired result. You wrote it or not, that’s your code. You are the one responsible. The machine has no brain. Use yours.

That may be, but if I come back to the old project I didn't touch in months, code may as well be written by an alien.

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Post by stan-ely »

lirolero wrote: post #286
mogoh wrote: post #264

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Why is spotify so popular? There are different solutions to listen to music. What does spotify do that almost no one else does? Is it the music library or something else? I use youtube music, but I am looking for alternatives (but not spotify for various reasons).

I can’t speak for everyone, but for me, it just works. I’ve never had any of the issues people are mentioning in this thread. The app isn’t slow or buggy for me, I’ve never had artists I listen to disappear from my playlists, and I can find pretty much every song I want to listen to. Most people I know use Spotify too, so sharing stuff is just a little more convenient.

It's just convenient and I don't notice the issues that much for it to be a problem

Re: Fastpotify

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Post by the_sleaze_ »

lostlogin wrote: post #319
mogoh wrote: post #264

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Why is spotify so popular? There are different solutions to listen to music. What does spotify do that almost no one else does? Is it the music library or something else? I use youtube music, but I am looking for alternatives (but not spotify for various reasons).

Music discovery on Spotify used to be great, but I left 5+ years ago so I’m unsure now.

Spotify has gone downhill in that regard for sure. It floods my pages with "created for you" which is just the same 4-5 artists played in the last few weeks ago kludged together into a playlist. Alongside some of the worst music you could imagine (Payola? Idk..)

Any recommendations anyone has for music discovery I'm all ears. I recently moved away from a town that had a 10/10 radio station and I'm really feeling the TOP-40-only pain.

Re: Fastpotify

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Post by lukeasch21 »

Gander5739 wrote: post #109
nickysielicki wrote: post #56

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Tools for piracy are much better today than they were back in the Napster or grooveshark days. It’s actually kind of shocking to me that we haven’t had a popcorntime moment for music again. Nothing technical is preventing the creation of a perfect decentralized anonymous p2p FLAC streaming platform with plausible deniability.

Have you heard of Soulseek? It's an active p2p music sharing platform.

To those of you who might get any ideas from this comment, Soulseek already has a growing problem of people vibe coding "free Spotify" apps that end up hammering a few accounts without giving anything back to the community by hosting. The solution seems to be some combination of automated hosting checks and captchas via PM, which are tiresome to maintain and might just drive more people off from hosting altogether.
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