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No wonder. Spotify is the most broken piece of shit on the app stores by far. Hey, let me download these so i can listen on the plane. Oh, the app just hangs o
by knorker 5y ago
No wonder. Spotify is the most broken piece of shit on the app stores by far.
Hey, let me download these so i can listen on the plane. Oh, the app just hangs on startup when you're in airplane mode. Well that's pointless.
And on and on.
It's a wonder anyone even can listen if they wanted to.
Sorry, this comment is probably not HN material, but every time I use Spotify it makes me angry from how it just doesn't work.
- cpach 5y agoI actually like Spotify. For music, though. Listening to podcasts in a music app – makes no sense to me. I have Overcast for that purpose and I see no reason to switch. I can understand that it was a good deal for Rogan personally if he got 100 million USD for exclusivity but for the average podcast host I believe that an open platform is much better.
- hammyhavoc 5y agoAs an artist I do not like getting $50 per 1m plays.
- shkkmo 5y agoSpotify works absolutely fine for me in Airplane mode. The reason I pay for Spotify is because it is the nest solution I have found for easily curating music for offline playback since I don't have unlimited data and I'm often outside of good coverage areas. It certainly isn't perfect and there are aspects of the UI I find frustrating, but offline access and playback are the features that seem to work the best. Edit: I also don't use Spotify for any podcasts and use other software since there are lots of great options for offline podcast listening that are way better than Spotify.
- knorker 5y agoI don't doubt that there are phones out there for which airplane mode works with Spotify. It's often the case in software that the bug is just not encountered, for some. But it was also just an example of the many ways the app is broken here and there. Freezes up, crashes, etc... And this I've gotten across phones. But that's just the bugs. As others have said the whole thing is not even close to designed for podcasts. Podcasts are an entirely different use case, that needs to be RSS-shaped, not like music.
- ymolodtsov 5y agoBut you make it sound like it's a widespread problem. For me their app is just great and much faster than Apple Music that may randomly fail at playing some track. And it works on airplanes just fine.
- knorker 5y agoI don't have a survey, but everyone I know who uses it says that it's shit, too.
- Mountain_Skies 5y agoSpotify has invested heavily in podcasts, not just Joe Rogan but a whole range of them at high costs. It baffles me that they would spend so much money on content and not invest in app development and design. Some businesses seem to have a major hate boner against paying for an appropriate number of high quality developers and designers. It's very penny proud and pound foolish.
- spideymans 5y agoI'm disappointed that Spotify in particular is going through this. They had a best-in-class user experience just a few short years ago.
- encryptluks2 5y agoIt makes sense when you realize they probably hired a bunch of marketing people to drive their business instead of focusing on technology.