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Spotify makes me so, so sad. I say this as a premium customer since 2015. They push out a mobile app update every week with either no changes, or changes to th
by vsnf 4y ago
Spotify makes me so, so sad. I say this as a premium customer since 2015.
They push out a mobile app update every week with either no changes, or changes to things I don't care about. They removed push-to-preview. They refuse to add custom song start and end times. They focus incessantly on podcasts. Their playlist management is a joke. They get the most embarrassing things wrong, like failing to understand that two artists with the same name are not the same artist, or that a song in my Discover Weekly is just a re-release of a song already in my library. Until recently, their random shuffle kept getting stuck in a loop of ~100 songs. There is no modification history, so if I accidentally remove a song from a playlist or my library, I get a snackbar saying "Removed from library" but it won't tell me what, and there's no way to find out. Their song queue system is utterly anemic. The "Home" button also serves as a kind of pseudo "back button" but with no obvious rules to understand exactly how navigation is going to occur.
The fact that so many third party Spotify integrations exists, each tackling a different deficiency in the Spotify app itself speaks volumes about what Spotify's priorities are. Spotify is lucky that their library is massive and that their recommendations are good (for me anyway. My friend and my mother separately have had astoundingly awful experiences with the recommendation system despite years of trying), or there's be no love lost in moving elsewhere.
- cyral 4y agoMy biggest UI annoyance is that you cannot sort by newest added when viewing a playlist on mobile (you can on desktop). So if you just added some songs to a playlist and want to listen to them first (I find myself doing this all the time when getting into my car), you have to spend 20 seconds scrolling frantically to the bottom of the list to find them. Let me know if I'm missing something.
- zwirbl 4y agoAt least on the current Android version it's actually possible, it seems to not be available in the browser version though
- lcfyi 4y agoI know this exists in Android: you can pull down at the top of a playlist to reveal the search bar and sorting options. The sorting options should include recently added.
- leodriesch 4y agoAvailable for me on iOS when you just pull down while at the top of a playlist.
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