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I canceled a $10/month Spotify subscription because their player wasn't close to parity with players like WinAmp and wasn't even moving in that direction.
by gdulli 10y ago
I canceled a $10/month Spotify subscription because their player wasn't close to parity with players like WinAmp and wasn't even moving in that direction.
- davidgerard 10y agoI am a happy Spotify user and ... it's still easier to find a song quickly by Googling "song name" "artist" site:youtube.com .
- themodelplumber 10y agoIf you do that multiple times a day, give DuckDuckGo a shot: "song name" "artist" !yt Takes you right to the YouTube results.
- Houshalter 10y agoChrome is smart. If I just type "y" and then tab, it automatically goes to youtube search.
- imesh 10y agoI just typed 'y' the other day and it just got what I was going to want in 10 seconds...
- LindenRyuujin 10y agoYou can do similar things on firefox with search engine keywords. I have mine setup for video so "video <search terms>" in the address bar will go to youtube. But you could bind it to just y if you wanted.
- bigbugbag 10y agolooks like chrome copied an old opera feature ;)
- sverige 10y agoYeah, Spotify's ridiculous addition of gapless playback with no knob to turn it off made me quit them a few months ago. WinAmp still works great for my Windows machine; VLC works pretty good for my BSD machine.
- sp00ls 10y agoIn settings you can disable 'crossfade songs'.
- sverige 10y agoI tried that. It did not work. It's too late, I deleted the app three months ago, and anyway now I have a dumb phone. I don't miss Spotify at all. Sometimes I miss maps, though.
- louhike 10y agoIsn't it disabled by default?
- sverige 10y agoGapless playback was on by default when I had the app, after an update that happened sometime last summer or fall.
- captbaritone 10y agoAt one point some folks within Spotify released a very impressive Spotify client which exactly mimicked the old Winamp 2 user interface. However it Seems to have silently vanished from the internet. https://news.spotify.com/us/2013/12/20/spotiamp-long-live-the-llama/ https://news.spotify.com/us/2013/12/20/spotiamp-long-live-th...
- sorenjan 10y agoThe source is on Github: https://github.com/spotify/spotiamb https://github.com/spotify/spotiamb Fun fact: The developer that made it (Ludvig Strigeus) is the same developer that made µTorrent and ScummVM.
- test1235 10y ago>µTorrent and ScummVM Two pieces of amazing software. Good job, that man.
- TorKlingberg 10y agoAlthough, hasn't µTorrent been bought by somebody who added the usual spyware?
- Grangar 10y agoIt mined bitcoin in the background somewhere between 2.0 and 3.0 if I recall correctly.
- NTripleOne 10y agoIIRC last I heard of it, the people who bought it were reporting usage info the RIAA, among other people?
- WorldMaker 10y agoIIRC, it was bought by the BitTorrent team itself and there eventually was little difference between the spyware of the "main" BitTorrent client and uTorrent.