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I'm a former Rdio user who's migrated to Spotify. It's clearly better in some ways but I struggle with trying to understand some of the decisions the team has m
by zachwood 11y ago
I'm a former Rdio user who's migrated to Spotify. It's clearly better in some ways but I struggle with trying to understand some of the decisions the team has made.
Just off the top of my head...
- The queue is fundamentally broken and useless. They really should rename it to "play stack... kinda".
- Clicking on an album to play it puts you in a subtly different state than playing the first song in that album. I'll let you figure that one out.
- The activity stream is one-way. there is no way to reply to a post. You are just shouting out into the darkness.
- Gestures don't work on osx, you have to find and click the tiny back button to go back.
- It's track/playlist based but playlists have a 10k song limit, so there is no way to keep a large collection of 'favorite' albums.
- From a list view there is no way to tell if an item is a single or a full album without clicking into it's detail view.
- No way to change your avatar. It's tied to whatever your facebook avatar is.
- Playlists have no description or image - unless you are a music label partner.
And dozens of features and niceties that Rdio had that you probably can't appreciate until you used them.
There's a slack community (Rdio Lovers) with hundreds of people that can't find a service that is anywhere near as polished and complete as Rdio was.