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Spotify. These days it's so hard to organise or browse your own music collection.
by renjimen 8y ago
Spotify.
These days it's so hard to organise or browse your own music collection.
- folkrav 8y agoI keep hearing this but I find Google Play Music to be way, way worse.
- dagoat 8y agoSo because Google Play Music is worse at X, that means Spotify's X can't be bad? Or are you saying the bar is: "as long as there's something worse"
- alehul 8y ago> So because Google Play Music is worse at X, that means Spotify's X can't be bad? It could be that, in most cases, we only think of the options as ones that we've been introduced to. We're way too busy with daily life to really think in-depth about everything in hypothetical possibilities, such as "here's a way in which a music app that doesn't exist could do it better." Instead, (unless we're very passionate about music), we tend to only think about the options that have been presented to us.
- folkrav 8y agoYou're extrapolating here. Maybe I was not clear enough. I've never found Spotify's interface to be that bad, but have the same sentiment you hold for Spotify towards Google Play Music.
- mo1ok 8y agoOh man, glad I'm not the only one I noticed this. It used to take ~2 seconds to find my favorite playlist and play it. Now it takes upwards of 10-20 seconds. On the dedicated "select a playlist" page with the squares, it even freaking re-organizes the squares every time you view it! Imagine if your desktop icons re-organized themselves in some arbitrary way every time you needed to open a program, and you get the utter destruction of muscle memory that can make up for the gaps in efficient design.
- rurp 8y agoNetflix is the king of this awfulness for me. Every time I use it the homepage is different. Different lists show up, disappear, change position, etc; even my list of saved shows that I reference all of the time suffers from this. Sticking with literally any layout I've seen on there would be better than the randomness that I have to navigate through each time.
- renjimen 8y agoJust give me the damn list of everything in your database and let me search and sort using the metadata. Why do they need to throw algorithms at everything?
- int_19h 8y agoI haven't seen a web music player / library manager with good UX for a very long time.