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> Spotify is a bad podcast app. Over the last 18 months it has become a bad music app too. Two years ago it only took one or two clicks to load your music and
by radicalbyte 8y ago
> Spotify is a bad podcast app.
Over the last 18 months it has become a bad music app too. Two years ago it only took one or two clicks to load your music and your downloaded music remained.. downloaded.
Nowadays you have to fight through several screens of "promotional feeds" to get to your playlists which will then be half empty because the downloaded songs have been removed.
They're clearly being driven as a new music marketing service by their record company overlords.
- wilkystyle 8y agoThe latest UI update on iOS moved the "Repeat" button to behind another menu, necessitating an additional tap. As someone who frequently toggles repeat, I now have an additional screen to tap through.
- kentosi 8y agoThank you. I just noticed this too. I wonder what the UX reasoning for this was? I just assumed that they had some metric indicating that not many people used it...
- djfergus 8y agoAgreed, regardless of your own playlist and album library you are pushed regional generic lists. Also Spotify will start pushing its podcasts more in app since as per the article there are better profits available - so expect it be slower and require more clicks to open the app and just play your music avoiding promotions for exclusive podcast content.