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I'd audaciously guess that it's the songs you play in it that makes the spotify app popular, not the pack of ones and zeroes that the developers thereof like be

by gkya 10y ago

I'd audaciously guess that it's the songs you play in it that makes the spotify app popular, not the pack of ones and zeroes that the developers thereof like better.

dopamean 10y ago
Speaking just for myself here... I use Spotify every day and I can guarantee that I would switch if the software experience was bad. I honestly can't think of a time the app crashed. It can switch between my mobile devices and the desktop seamlessly almost every time. The overall design is intuitive enough _and_ it happens to come in a color scheme that I love. I used to find my music elsewhere and could do it again if I had to.
- lj3 10y ago
  Switch to what? Everything else costs quite a bit of money (buying songs individually). Or you could pirate your music. Either way, it takes a shit ton of time to build up a halfway decent music library from scratch. Especially when the convenience of 'just search on spotify and add the entire artist to a playlist' is right there for free. I've had the spotify app crash my computer a few times. And then there was that fiasco a while back about it writing many, many gigs of data to SSDs and shortening their lifespan. Convenience will always trump software quality, but as soon as there is a competitor with better working software at a decent price, I'm jumping ship.
  - dopamean 10y ago
    I'd switch to Apple Music or Google Music. Both are services I've tried that work for me.
johnfn 10y ago
Ever hear of the Napster audio app? Not the p2p thing, the paid subscription app? It was just like Spotify, way before Spotify? Oh really, no, you hadn't? Could it be because the UI was terrible? Hm. What about rdio? Back in the day, I remember noticing they had a much better music archive than Spotify in some areas like prog. Still, I never made the switch. (The way they organized music was terrible.) Apparently, neither did anyone else. I could go on. All these Spotify competitors, all with decent libraries. How did Spotify end up winning? I'm not saying that songs are unimportant, but if you have trash ux people are going to find an alternative.
- gkya 10y ago
  So not electron = trash UX? (edit: I'm an amateur musician, I do know quite a bit about the online music sphere, and I've been a paid user of both Deezer and Spotify in the past. You usually don't know who you're talking to on the internet, so better don't assume things.)
  - johnfn 10y ago
    Did I make assumptions? My bad. Well, I guess I made the assumption that you were unfamiliar with the napster app, so my bad. Other that that I dunno. (I happen to be an amateur musician as well. Fun coincidence.) Anyways, what I'm saying is that using electron is not really correlated to "bad app" and not using electron is not correlated to "good app".

by gkya 10y ago

I'd audaciously guess that it's the songs you play in it that makes the spotify app popular, not the pack of ones and zeroes that the developers thereof like better.

dopamean 10y ago

Speaking just for myself here... I use Spotify every day and I can guarantee that I would switch if the software experience was bad. I honestly can't think of a time the app crashed. It can switch between my mobile devices and the desktop seamlessly almost every time. The overall design is intuitive enough _and_ it happens to come in a color scheme that I love. I used to find my music elsewhere and could do it again if I had to.

lj3 10y ago
Switch to what? Everything else costs quite a bit of money (buying songs individually). Or you could pirate your music. Either way, it takes a shit ton of time to build up a halfway decent music library from scratch. Especially when the convenience of 'just search on spotify and add the entire artist to a playlist' is right there for free. I've had the spotify app crash my computer a few times. And then there was that fiasco a while back about it writing many, many gigs of data to SSDs and shortening their lifespan. Convenience will always trump software quality, but as soon as there is a competitor with better working software at a decent price, I'm jumping ship.
- dopamean 10y ago
  I'd switch to Apple Music or Google Music. Both are services I've tried that work for me.

johnfn 10y ago

Ever hear of the Napster audio app? Not the p2p thing, the paid subscription app? It was just like Spotify, way before Spotify? Oh really, no, you hadn't? Could it be because the UI was terrible? Hm. What about rdio? Back in the day, I remember noticing they had a much better music archive than Spotify in some areas like prog. Still, I never made the switch. (The way they organized music was terrible.) Apparently, neither did anyone else. I could go on. All these Spotify competitors, all with decent libraries. How did Spotify end up winning? I'm not saying that songs are unimportant, but if you have trash ux people are going to find an alternative.

gkya 10y ago
So not electron = trash UX? (edit: I'm an amateur musician, I do know quite a bit about the online music sphere, and I've been a paid user of both Deezer and Spotify in the past. You usually don't know who you're talking to on the internet, so better don't assume things.)
- johnfn 10y ago
  Did I make assumptions? My bad. Well, I guess I made the assumption that you were unfamiliar with the napster app, so my bad. Other that that I dunno. (I happen to be an amateur musician as well. Fun coincidence.) Anyways, what I'm saying is that using electron is not really correlated to "bad app" and not using electron is not correlated to "good app".