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Why have Spotify decided to make a Chrome web app rather than just making a normal website, such as Grooveshark?
Hopefully they add some other features like storing music locally, which might require more Chrome integration (I don't really know).
Note that it is still US only though, if you are based in a different country it will just forward you to the Spotify homepage. On a different note, does anybody know why they started with native clients instead of one web client? I can think of some advantages of native clients (P2P streaming as the have it, better OS integration etc.) but when compared to the big disadvantage of having to maintain two codebases (Wi…
Good to see another groundbreaking Spotify "innovation." I remember Grooveshark getting into the chrome web store almost two years ago.
Note that it is still US only though, if you are based in a different country it will just forward you to the Spotify homepage. On a different note, does anybody know why they started with native clients instead of one web client? I can think of some advantages of native clients (P2P streaming as the have it, better OS integration etc.) but when compared to the big disadvantage of having to maintain two codebases (Wi…
Note that it is still US only though, if you are based in a different country it will just forward you to the Spotify homepage. On a different note, does anybody know why they started with native clients instead of one web client? I can think of some advantages of native clients (P2P streaming as the have it, better OS integration etc.) but when compared to the big disadvantage of having to maintain two codebases (Wi…
Note that it is still US only though, if you are based in a different country it will just forward you to the Spotify homepage. On a different note, does anybody know why they started with native clients instead of one web client? I can think of some advantages of native clients (P2P streaming as the have it, better OS integration etc.) but when compared to the big disadvantage of having to maintain two codebases (Wi…
Having a native client was the feature that caught my attention and made me try Spotify in the first place. I was tired of implementations that used to hang my web browser or consumed lot of memory. But that was back in the time. Their latest Mac OS client is very memory hungry, almost every time on my top 3 of applications consuming the most memory.
Note that it is still US only though, if you are based in a different country it will just forward you to the Spotify homepage. On a different note, does anybody know why they started with native clients instead of one web client? I can think of some advantages of native clients (P2P streaming as the have it, better OS integration etc.) but when compared to the big disadvantage of having to maintain two codebases (Wi…
Finally! Web-based browser. It's actually pretty good. I like the interactions
Note that it is still US only though, if you are based in a different country it will just forward you to the Spotify homepage. On a different note, does anybody know why they started with native clients instead of one web client? I can think of some advantages of native clients (P2P streaming as the have it, better OS integration etc.) but when compared to the big disadvantage of having to maintain two codebases (Wi…
I'm not impressed yet, and I know that better web experiences can be delivered.
However, now that I see this webplayer and recognize a few similarities with the desktop player, I can see why many of the horrifically terrible changes to the native player happened recently.
They were getting rid of native rendering and replacing it with rendering a webpage. No wonder people were so pissed and no wonder so much functionality was dropped.
EDIT: Okay, I'm going to say this. Webapps: USE MY RIGHT CLICK. You are NOT A WEBPAGE, so don't use a webpage right click!
Right click a song in native app: Play, Queue, Add To->Lists, Radio, Copy 3 Kinds of Links, Share, Delete from Playlist.
Right click on a song in web app: Back, Forward, Reload (breaks playback lol...), Save, Print, View Page Source, Reload Frame...
I love my right click menus and not having them in a webapp is very frustrating. Oh wait, this is supposed to also work for touch so I will never get a real alt-menu again, will I?