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I was a paying customer until I got too frustrated with the lack of a real desktop player. Forcing what should be real applications into the browser is awkward
by gdulli 8y ago
I was a paying customer until I got too frustrated with the lack of a real desktop player. Forcing what should be real applications into the browser is awkward as hell.
- larrik 8y agoThey're basically the only non-Apple streaming service WITH a desktop player, though. They even have a Linux client!
- gdulli 8y agoI prefer playing local files and having the feature set of a real player like foobar2000. I was on premium Spotify for a year and found some value in having access to a wider library than my own. But ultimately I got too annoyed with the compromise of low-effort software.
- seabrookmx 8y agoI'm waiting for the stream of "OMG but it's not a _native_ app it's Chromium-based garbage." I _love_ the Chromium/electron-based stuff because that's exactly the reason we have postman, Slack, Spotify, Skype, VSCode, etc. for Linux. Because it's minimal effort to make them work across platforms. A I'll buy an extra 8GB of RAM if it means I can run all the apps I want. RAM is cheap.
- trts 8y agoAmazon Music has web player and desktop (Mac/Windows)
- benbristow 8y agoAmazon's products never seem to be polished and always lacking loads of features though.
- est 8y agoI still have their beta era Spotify.exe which is 4MB in size lying on my disk. It no longer works, but I really appreciate the engineering effort in this piece. It was created by the same guy who wrote uTorrent.