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Spotify are about to loose me as a customer after the better part of a decade as a paying premium subscriber for one reason: putting videos in the form of mini
by simonbarker87 8y ago
Spotify are about to loose me as a customer after the better part of a decade as a paying premium subscriber for one reason: putting videos in the form of mini documentaries and puff pieces in curated playlists and not adding a way to auto skip them.
I have had Spotify in the background of pretty much all aspects of my life for years but these videos discussing the inspiration of a song through to an artist designing his own sneakers breaks my concentration and is driving me mad.
Spotify don’t care, an option to block these videos has been asked for, a “Community Idea” for the feature to block them has over 2,000 votes (the threshold for Spotify paying attention is 100) so I am off to Deezer.
Spotify was in the category of non negotiable and alongside heating and internet as a household bill so I’m pretty bummed they now want to be YouTube but in portrait only.
- patrickbolle 8y agoPutting some Spotify addresses in your /etc/hosts file will block those - I haven't seen one of those videos on my desktop ever.
- ksec 8y ago>putting videos in the form of mini documentaries and puff pieces in curated playlists and not adding a way to auto skip them. That sounds super annoying. I haven't had any of those? Are they region specific?
- ggg9990 8y agoEverything in Spotify is extremely region specific. I’ve flown from the US to Asia and lost the ability to play some songs.
- simonbarker87 8y agoThe one about sneakers they even tweeted about two days ago. It’s a Thomas Rhett one and is the first song on Hot Country, it’s not a song Spotify!! (let’s all just skip past the fact I listen to country but live in the UK...)
- verelo 8y agoI'd love to learn more about this! I hate the way this sounds, have not encountered it, but keen to share my distaste with Spotify by reaching out to them if this is in fact true!
- Twirrim 8y agoI'm increasingly frustrated with their response to Community Ideas and feature requests. Here's a really dumb, simple one: They won't allow you to filter out explicit songs. Even though they already have the metadata indicating a song has explicit lyrics. Lots of customers have asked for it. It has been voted highly on "Community Idea". Still no progress multiple years later.
- mrsmee89 8y agoI’m not sure about letting you filter but they have a toggle to hide explicit songs in settings -> explicit content (on iOS at least)
- krrrh 8y agoNo service seems to handle this well. I mostly want the opposite: show only uncensored versions in searches and playlists, but it would also be nice to globally toggle to clean versions if I’m hanging out with a child. It’s frustrating and cluttering to see both versions in the catalogue as if they are separate releases.
- brailsafe 8y agoThe problem is also impacted by how those songs get onto the platform. Apparently, music companies literally just upload the music files, correct metadata or not
- joshstrange 8y agoYou know what also dumb? If you have an explicit song in a playlist and then that song becomes un-available due to some licensing deal from the original licenser but is still available (in explicit and explicit) form another licenser sometimes your explicit song will get swapped for the clean version. It's incredibly jarring and at least the last time I dealt with the issue it was really hard to find the explicit song from the mobile app to fix my playlist and had to do it on the desktop.
- wikwocket 8y ago
- chrisper 8y agoAnother feature they don't have (that all other apps seem to have) is Bluetooth playlist. Not sure why their apps are so bad.
- krrrh 8y agoFor whatever it’s worth, I found Deezer extremely frustrating while using the free year of it I got with a Sonos purchase. I would run into inconsistencies and errors in their catalog several times a week, and despite submitting support requests, these were never fixed. A common example would be several artists with the same name but vastly different styles of music and from different decades clumped under one entry. It felt like a music service run by people who didn’t care about music. This is much rarer in Apple Music and Spotify though still a problem on all services.
- K0SM0S 8y agoI have the same impression of Deezer. Clumzy. Bad UX. not much love for music despite… I tried Deezer, Spotify, Play Music, none fits my bill so far. I'm currently using Amazon Prime Music (came free with my Prime sub so why not) and YouTube Music (same reason, free in my country for 3 months as it's rolling out). They are both OK (lots of issues with YouTube music being the same as you regular account though), but none is better than the other guys.
- givinguflac 8y agoIt’s still not perfect, but they’ve gotten much better. I’ve been a Deezer user for a few years now and agree it was quite bad early on.
- ralston 8y agoI share the sentiment. Sadly it appears as if Spotify is pulling a Snapchat - "We know what's best for our users, their opinions be damned".
- givinguflac 8y agoDeezer user here, welcome aboard. One thing of note is that FLAC files are only available via Sonos and the desktop Deezer app. I wish they’d offer it on mobile as well, but I greatly enjoy the service and feature set, and most of my listening is on Sonos.
- jorvi 8y agoMore annoyances: * Some songs also have a looping video instead of album art. No toggle to disable * They swapped out built-in Musixmatch lyrics with Genius lyrics, but those are only on select songs because they (Spotify) want to mix in needless tidbits of knowledge. End result: only much-listened songs have lyrics, instead of all of them. * No Apple TV app. This has been on request since at least 2015 with a ginormous amount of community votes. You can AirPlay, but its not nearly as nice (and no Spotify Connect).
- nikanj 8y agoPayola and "promotion collaborations" are are an easy way to monetize the service. Make 20% more money from all users, lose 5% of users? Great deal, according to Excel.
- genericid 8y agoIn theory, someone else could make an alternative client that behaves sanely. In practice, DRM.
- kitsunesoba 8y agoThe thing that frustrates me about Spotify comes from a developer angle. They’ve deprecated libspotify and have been disabling bits of its functionality. A replacement has been promised for ages now but so far, it hasn’t happened.