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In Spotify I have my entire library in the cloud, accessible from my phone, home computer, office, etc. I get weekly (great) recommendations based on what I act
by pikzel 9y ago
In Spotify I have my entire library in the cloud, accessible from my phone, home computer, office, etc. I get weekly (great) recommendations based on what I actually listen to. I can browse related artists, share songs with my friends, stream the music to all my home speakers in sync.
Of course an mp3 player use less power, it only does a fraction of what Spotify does. It's not even like comparing apples and oranges, it's like comparing your bike to a jet fighter.
And, yeah, I grew up with Winamp and MP3s (or even .MOD/.XM). But the world moves on.
- skykooler 9y agoHowever, with Spotify you're limited to the music that's in your Spotify library. On the desktop you can also add local music files, but they don't sync with the other devices.
- endless1234 9y agoYou can actually sync local files to your mobile devices with Spotify. Might require premium.
- izacus 9y agoI don't get how that exuses Spotify when it eats away more than an hour of total battery life with it's JS UI. Did you even read the article?
- rayiner 9y agoBut once you pick a song or stream there should be no reason for Spotify to guzzle CPU cycles.
- kitsunesoba 9y agoNothing that the official Spotify client is capable of requires it to be anywhere near as inefficient as it is. This is something I've looked into quite deeply, having wanted to write true native alternative clients for all three major platforms. The biggest roadblock at this point is the way Spotify has been handling the deprecation of libspotify. They haven't made a replacement public yet, and the public web endpoints don't support playback like libspotify does.