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Re: Dear Spotify, can we just get a table of songs?

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Post by mmarquezs » Fri, Jun 10, 2022, 2:44 PM UTC

mahogany wrote: post #256

hyperbovine wrote: post #202

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Dystopian you say? For $15 a month I can access basically every song ever recorded at the click of a button, wirelessly on an ultrapowerful mobile computing device that fits comfortably in my pocket. Place yourself in about 1997 and savor that statement for a moment. But what have we gained?

> I can access basically every song ever recorded Not really, there is a lot missing from Spotify, and not just obscure music. And you have to accept the fact that music may (and does) go missing at any time. Plus, even for songs that are on the platform, you are forced to listen to what version they have, which is almost always a "remastered" version. Example: early Beatles songs have vocals hard-panned to one side,…

> Not really, there is a lot missing from Spotify

True, I have experienced that. I love the apps, but I ended up switching to youtube premium due to that.

Anything that isn't in youtube music as a song, usually is available as a video either uploaded by the artists themselves or as a "not so legal" upload. Not a fan of the apps though.

Re: Dear Spotify, can we just get a table of songs?

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Post by jlbang » Fri, Jun 10, 2022, 4:41 PM UTC

The article says "If there is a piece of information about a podcast that is the least useful, that would be the cover art."

I think that's not true. Cover art / album art allows you to visually scan through a pile of different podcasts to find the one podcast you're looking for. E.g. "I know it's mostly purple with a little white, so now I'm scanning for purple… there it is." You can find the one you want even if the art is tiny and you can see 100 at a time.

Let's not allow the lesson to be "text is better, don't display cover art". Instead, let's allow the lesson to be "let me make the software work the way my brain does." It's not that Spotify has made a terrible decision, necessarily. It's just that their UI isn't optimized for a non-visual person, or a person who prefers text to images.

What if software had far more customizable UI, such that I can make the software display the information to me in the way that makes the most sense to me? Harder to test, for sure, but if they made it a paid feature (meaning only for paying users) it might pay for itself.

Re: Dear Spotify, can we just get a table of songs?

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Post by CZiNTrPT » Sat, Jun 11, 2022, 2:14 PM UTC

True. I left Spotify years ago for the single reason of their UI/UX getting worse every update. First tried to offer feedback on their tracker, but it just never changed for the better...

Re: Dear Spotify, can we just get a table of songs?

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Post by ddingus » Thu, Jun 16, 2022, 9:58 PM UTC

javajosh wrote: post #492

ddingus wrote: post #457

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Nothing like those speakers, agreed. In a more normal office setting, I am far more inclined to use the built in speaker and mic combo myself when using my Apple device. Otherwise, my goto is actually the Samsung AKG pack in earbuds that came with my Note phones. Mic is great, audio quality also great. Those have a wire. I do not mind a wire. Always works.

>my goto is actually the Samsung AKG pack in earbuds Me too! They are falling apart at this point, 3 or 4 years later, but wow. They have so many nice little features like a cloth braided cable that helps keep them from knotting themselves, and very comfy ear pieces. And of course they sound great, and because they are cheap (~$15) I never worry about losing them. AKG found some sort of global minima of price/perform…

Late reply, but I just checked my stash!

I have 4 of these, in the bags, ready to go.

Love them so much! Their response curve works for my sense of hearing. Hard to get better, just different.

Overstock had those things for $10 some time back and I bought a handful, and I am glad I did.