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My off-topic rant: I'd really wish Spotify would focus on improving the core player experience. It has barely seen any improvements in years. * Not overwrite/d

My off-topic rant: I'd really wish Spotify would focus on improving the core player experience. It has barely seen any improvements in years. * Not overwrite/delete my listening history everytime I switch devices * Allow tabs, or some way to resume what I've been listening to in different contexts * Option to open only one instance, instead of having multiple instances that mess with each other * Playing local files crashes/not working on Linux * Change playback speed, not just for podcasts * Jump back/forward, not just for podcasts * Have some visibility when the song was last played / play count * Liked songs not always appearing in search results * Sorting search results not working * Add basic functionality to the dbus interface (e.g. seeking) * Ability to report songs (e.g. wrong titles/badly split tracks/etc.)

TheRealSteel 6y ago
I have been begging them for years to add a 'resume playlist' feature but they won't do it.
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krakmh 6y ago
You are absolutely right. Even more, people are using it for free using mods like these https://bestforandroid.com/apk/spotify-premium-mod-apk/ https://bestforandroid.com/apk/spotify-premium-mod-apk/
- yaqoob 6y ago
  Yup, well said.
bootlooped 6y ago
Almost all of these strike me as only benefiting a very small sliver of users, like well under 1%. An infinitesimal portion of Spotify listeners even know what dbus is. How much engineer time is it worth to improve something like that?
- shaicoleman 6y ago
  Spotify is a company with over 7 billion USD dollar of revenue in 2020. Linux is about 2% of desktop users, or about 1% of users in total. Nevertheless, they decided not to spend a dime to work on the Linux client ("Spotify for Linux is a labor of love") [1]. The Linux app is an electron app, so there's relatively little effort required to maintain it. Instead, they paid 100 million USD for Joe Rogan, and added video features that nobody wanted and asked for. Take a look at /r/JoeRogan [2], and see just the extent of how much reputation damage it caused. Take a look at /r/Spotify [3], most of the complaints are about basic functionality not working. MPRIS [4] is a dbus API standard for controlling music players. End-users don't know or care about APIs. End-users care about having music widgets, but you can't do that without it. End-users care about keyboard accessiblity when they need it, but you can't do it without those APIs. And Linux users specifically care about programmability. Limiting the API means that not only do I have to deal with the buggy app, it's prevents anyone else from building something better. It's been 10 years since the Linux client came out. One engineer could fix these issues in a couple of months, but it's just not their priority. The only saving grace for Spotify is that all their competitors are worse. 1. https://www.spotify.com/us/download/linux/ https://www.spotify.com/us/download/linux/ 2. https://www.reddit.com/r/JoeRogan/ https://www.reddit.com/r/JoeRogan/ 3. https://www.reddit.com/r/Spotify/ https://www.reddit.com/r/Spotify/ 4. https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/MPRIS https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/MPRIS

TheRealSteel 6y ago

I have been begging them for years to add a 'resume playlist' feature but they won't do it.

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krakmh 6y ago

You are absolutely right. Even more, people are using it for free using mods like these https://bestforandroid.com/apk/spotify-premium-mod-apk/ https://bestforandroid.com/apk/spotify-premium-mod-apk/

yaqoob 6y ago
Yup, well said.

bootlooped 6y ago

Almost all of these strike me as only benefiting a very small sliver of users, like well under 1%. An infinitesimal portion of Spotify listeners even know what dbus is. How much engineer time is it worth to improve something like that?

shaicoleman 6y ago
Spotify is a company with over 7 billion USD dollar of revenue in 2020. Linux is about 2% of desktop users, or about 1% of users in total. Nevertheless, they decided not to spend a dime to work on the Linux client ("Spotify for Linux is a labor of love") [1]. The Linux app is an electron app, so there's relatively little effort required to maintain it. Instead, they paid 100 million USD for Joe Rogan, and added video features that nobody wanted and asked for. Take a look at /r/JoeRogan [2], and see just the extent of how much reputation damage it caused. Take a look at /r/Spotify [3], most of the complaints are about basic functionality not working. MPRIS [4] is a dbus API standard for controlling music players. End-users don't know or care about APIs. End-users care about having music widgets, but you can't do that without it. End-users care about keyboard accessiblity when they need it, but you can't do it without those APIs. And Linux users specifically care about programmability. Limiting the API means that not only do I have to deal with the buggy app, it's prevents anyone else from building something better. It's been 10 years since the Linux client came out. One engineer could fix these issues in a couple of months, but it's just not their priority. The only saving grace for Spotify is that all their competitors are worse. 1. https://www.spotify.com/us/download/linux/ https://www.spotify.com/us/download/linux/ 2. https://www.reddit.com/r/JoeRogan/ https://www.reddit.com/r/JoeRogan/ 3. https://www.reddit.com/r/Spotify/ https://www.reddit.com/r/Spotify/ 4. https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/MPRIS https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/MPRIS