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I keep pointing this out, but Spotify's shuffle algorithm is absolute horrible. It plays the same 10 or so songs for hours on hours before it moves on to the ne
by dastx 7y ago
I keep pointing this out, but Spotify's shuffle algorithm is absolute horrible. It plays the same 10 or so songs for hours on hours before it moves on to the next 10 or so songs.
Their offline feature has become rubbish. Every morning I have a 10 minute walk to the train station and I usually open spotify right after I lock my door. Throughout this walk, spotify has played for about 1 minute in total, on a good day this number might jump up to 4. Sluggish as hell. When I open any of the items (my songs/home/individual playlist) the first time I load up the app, it doesn't even load for several minutes. So until it loads, even that 1 min or so, I can't even choose a song.
I've been wanting to move away from spotify, and for me, the only other viable streaming platform is Google Music (does that still exist?). Having tried it for a few months, and completely cancelled spotify, it's the same shit but combined with an even worse UI. What gives? I have a Galaxy S9. One of the top of the range Android phones. I used to have a Xperia Z3 Compact. Which at the time was pretty powerful.
The annoying thing is, from here its hard to move away. The only thing I've found that makes it easy for me to move away is some project called spotitube, which matches songs against YouTube and downloads them from there and converts them. So sure, if I used it, I'd get the songs back, but now it's shit quality and it's illegal.
- coldtea 7y agoUse shuffle and offline frequently and have never experienced any of the above. Perhaps it's some other issue?
- dastx 7y agoPerhaps it is another issue, but the fact that I've had it across multiple devices, I'd be surprised if it isn't Spotify's shoddy "algorithm" (if you even wanna call it that). I posted this a while ago on reddit on /r/Spotify[0] that shows two examples of the same song being chosen close to each other (one of which actually was listed one after the other). This is either terrible algorithm or an algorithm that benefits Spotify, not the consumer. The issues have been raised on Spotify's official platform, but they've just ignored it. There are literally thousands of replies[1]. [0] https://www.reddit.com/r/spotify/comments/966nx7/uhh_dear_spotify/ https://www.reddit.com/r/spotify/comments/966nx7/uhh_dear_sp... [1] https://community.spotify.com/t5/Implemented-Ideas/Implement-an-actual-shuffle-function/idi-p/27607 https://community.spotify.com/t5/Implemented-Ideas/Implement...
- morsch 7y agoTry putting your phone in airplane mode, or possibly Spotify's own offline mode. I've found that Spotify works great when you have a good internet connection or when you have none at all. It doesn't do well when you have 1 bar of edge reception, or your phone is struggling with cell/wifi handover.
- dastx 7y agoI will try that. However, I don't think this is the case as this happens on WiFi as well. Additionally, on 4G with 5 bars it still happens. Everything else works fine and is instantaneous.
- dastx 7y agoSo I've had it on offline mode since you've mentioned it. It works much better. No sluggish start ups or sluggish song changes. This is really strange as I've got 1Gbps connection at home and it still does this when it on the WiFi. More reasons to get rid of it.