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Re: Fastpotify

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Post by cityoften »

maxibenner wrote: post #235
embedding-shape wrote: post #215

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> The mythical "rm -rf" random LLM insertion is not a real threat. Every time I see stories about this kind of issue, it's almost always preceded by basically prompt poisoning. It is real, typically happening when dumber models (haven't personally seen any of the SOTA ones on reasonable thinking/reasoning level do this) try to clean up stuff via bash and forget to assign a variable. Things like "rm -rf sessions/$id"…

Just recently, Opus 4.8 almost deleted a bunch of important files (I caught the issue before) because it failed to consider that two-way-sync would delete files from my NAS if deleted locally.

Fable has done similar for me because it assumed intent that I wanted permanent deletion after moving folders. The bash script it wrote failed to copy the files and then deleted the originals. Not catastrophic in my case though

Re: Fastpotify

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Post by demibabs »

earcar wrote: post #188
mappu wrote: post #49

If you're focused on lightweight, native and fast, I don't think you should use an immediate-mode GUI toolkit. Why does an app like this need to hit a 60fps framerate? It's not a game.

Author here. Two reasons I chose an immediate mode UI framework: 1. Latency. A click paints on the next frame, because it sidesteps the stages of a retained mode UI: there's no dirty-marking, no layout and paint passes scheduled for later, no cached visual state that can be stale. 2. Simplicity. The UI is a plain function of app state. There's no retained tree to keep in sync and no invalidation bugs: mutate the stat…

“Claude, why did you use an immediate mode framework?”

Re: Fastpotify

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Post by Tactical45 »

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 think the notion that it's the worst piece of software is a bit of a stretch here. I've used various streaming music players and Spotify has been the best by far. Doesn't mean it's perfect.

I get that not all edge cases (eg swipe gestures) are bullet proof but that doesn't make it terrible software.

Re: Fastpotify

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Post by AtNightWeCode »

BatteryMountain wrote: post #276
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've cancelled mine 5 years ago after they keep showing me ganster music and podcasts on my main page, even though I no history of listening or liking such content. So they keep trying to force it into my life. Secondly, they messed up the explorability of artists, playlist and related music. They also removed music from the catalogue, meaning on my playlist there are big memory holes of my favourite music, as they d…

The problem with gangster music was a hack I believe. Spotify never admitted it but I have many friends that had that problem. I did not.

Re: Fastpotify

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Post by freedomben »

leoedin wrote: post #371
NothingAboutAny wrote: post #337

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It truly has been one of the worst UX experiences and poorly made apps that ever made it to mainstream. I remember a decade or so ago there being a bunch of buzz about them in software dev because they were a microservice node.js/react stack or something with each UI element or portion of back-end having a separate dev team. I can vividly remember thinking "oh that's probably why when I change song sometimes the albu…

I worked for a startup in 2019 which was really pushing the "Spotify model" of team structure. Apparently it's all about self-organising teams and having no leadership. The fact the technology output of the Spotify model - the Spotify app - seemed to be kind of crap didn't seem to matter. I think the main output of the Spotify team structure was blog posts promoting the Spotify team structure.

> Apparently it's all about self-organising teams and having no leadership.

Gross over-simplification. For anyone curious they have videos out there, though they are 10+ years old now so may no longer be accurate, but in 2019-era this was still a thing (company I worked for did it too).[1]

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yvfz4HGtoPc

Re: Fastpotify

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Post by HDThoreaun »

short_sells_poo wrote: post #245
earcar wrote: post #201

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Author here. Yes, the code is generated. Yes, the docs are generated. I agree LLM copy is annoying and will rewrite them myself. But I built this for myself out of frustration with the official client, and I use it every day, so every bug I find is fixed immediately. I also care about bugs and PRs from other people, as you can see the amount that have been closed on the repo. The only reason I would stop maintaining…

I'm going to sound harsh here, but please don't take this as criticism of the effort, it's criticism of how it's being portrayed. The quality might for all intents be great and useful. > But I built this for myself out of frustration with the official client But you didn't build it. This is akin to me telling an intern to build me a widget and then claiming it was me who built it. Or a construction manager saying the…

Shit take. You’re trying to play the bs semantics game and can’t even pull it off

Re: Fastpotify

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Post by esafak »

Tactical45 wrote: post #473
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 think the notion that it's the worst piece of software is a bit of a stretch here. I've used various streaming music players and Spotify has been the best by far. Doesn't mean it's perfect. I get that not all edge cases (eg swipe gestures) are bullet proof but that doesn't make it terrible software.

WinAmp was smaller, faster, and more customizable thirty years ago.

Re: Fastpotify

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Post by HDThoreaun »

legohead wrote: post #452

If this player has true random playing of your songs, instant sell for me. Also, a mobile version would be great, even if I have to do a manual install. Spotify's "random shuffle" has been broken for years, with a long running thread [1] complaining about it. A lot of the commenters think there is some kind of "artist priority" playing algorithm, with some kind of maximum profit goal or something. But I think it's si…

The most sickening part of this is that it isn’t actually broken, it’s working exactly how Spotify wants. Spotify thinks we are so stupid we actually want their janky “shuffle” that doesn’t work properly.

Re: Fastpotify

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Post by megagpt4 »

voncheese wrote: post #380
NothingAboutAny wrote: post #337

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It truly has been one of the worst UX experiences and poorly made apps that ever made it to mainstream. I remember a decade or so ago there being a bunch of buzz about them in software dev because they were a microservice node.js/react stack or something with each UI element or portion of back-end having a separate dev team. I can vividly remember thinking "oh that's probably why when I change song sometimes the albu…

Totally agree. They also have some stickiness going for them (at least for me). Now that I've organized my music in Spotify and have my habits in place that deal with the crummy UX, I've gotten numb to the poor UX. Case in point, I make a daily playlist for running and that UX is frequently changing and often for the worse, but I deal with it because it's a habit that costs me a few seconds maybe a minute per day. Th…

We used to have a folder full of MP3 files and call that a playlist. Lightweight, works offline, and never changes without your consent.

Re: Fastpotify

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Post by megagpt4 »

threethirtytwo wrote: post #401
lostlogin wrote: post #312

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> It's a music player Spotify doesn’t completely agree with that. ‘Spotify is a digital music, podcast, and video service that gives you access to millions of songs and other content from creators all over the world.’ I left in the middle of their ‘we do Podcasts’ bs, where they were pushing Joe Rogan hard. Yuck. https://support.spotify.com/nz/article/what-is-spotify/

I like Joe Rogan. So not yuck for me. But I can understand how if someone you hate is pushed hard by a platform you’d want to leave it.

Why do people like Joe Rogan?
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