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The spotify desktop app is one of the worst pieces of software by a major company I have ever used.
Try it on a flaky connection. Every menu (maybe any action of any kind?) makes a roundtrip to the server before displaying, with a very slow timeout. It's crazy how bad it is.
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The spotify desktop app is one of the worst pieces of software by a major company I have ever used.
Try it on a flaky connection. Every menu (maybe any action of any kind?) makes a roundtrip to the server before displaying, with a very slow timeout. It's crazy how bad it is.
More specifically, I'm talking about tapping the '...' on a track for the options menu. That should be latency-free, and used to be.
It takes true corporate dedication to publish technical thought leadership on a page that actively fights your ability to read it.
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Try it on a flaky connection. Every menu (maybe any action of any kind?) makes a roundtrip to the server before displaying, with a very slow timeout. It's crazy how bad it is.
Not just that, some actions spawn an entire Chromium instance. For example, any time you click on a music video (not a new thread, an actual full Chromium instance).
What great productivity gains are Spotify achieving in making their product worse?
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I've gone back to the high seas and bandcamp myself. Spotify stopped having humans curate their playlists back in like 2016 or 2018 and the subsequent ML algorithms always recommend the same sounding stuff, nothing ever new or interesting. I'm back to getting recommendations in real life and literally talking to bands after their sets on who they listen too. Never been happier listening to music ATM.
Remember their new algorithm also prefers and promotes Spotify's own tracks they don't have to pay any royalties for and the slop. Related: https://bedrocknews.com/article/technology/2026/apr/11/ai-im... and https://www.headphonesty.com/2025/01/spotify-ghost-artists-c... Just skip Spotify at all.
I’ve noticed sometimes my wife puts on a playlist and it’s almost like weird covers or remixes I can’t quite put my finger on. Like it has a melody of a real song but the style / tempo / vocals are changed.
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I timed how long it took to open Spotify and play a song on a $2500 Mac on low latency gigabit fiber internet. 15 seconds. Incredible stuff.
It opens and plays music in less than 3 seconds, on my x86 NixOS box. I wonder if the macOS build has a bunch of static libraries it has to load first.
I wish websites would stop messing with the scrolling behavior.
I used to date a girl who was a designer and had to plead with her that breaking behaviors I'm used to is not a positive UX. "But it adds motion" was the classic reply.
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Not just that, some actions spawn an entire Chromium instance. For example, any time you click on a music video (not a new thread, an actual full Chromium instance).
I’m sure more agentic coding loops will improve these inefficiencies
And I'm sure their prompt whisperers are proud of their work.