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I f'ing hate spotify with a passion. The shit UX and them pushing JRE and other bullshit podcasts I dont want or need in my life was bad, but for me the final s

I f'ing hate spotify with a passion. The shit UX and them pushing JRE and other bullshit podcasts I dont want or need in my life was bad, but for me the final straw was that they decided to show me popups for their shit playlists when I was trying to put on one some music. Found out they have been doing it for years to people, and if you complain they basically refer you to the suggestion box and to go f yourself. I don't get it. Why would you want to torment paying customers like that? Just leave me alone and let me play some music you psycopaths. So I switched back to Apple music. It's pretty shit, but at least I get to decide what I want to listen too.

basisword 4y ago
>> So I switched back to Apple music. It's pretty shit, but at least I get to decide what I want to listen too. I love and hate Apple Music. The library style interface is great. But for a company that hangs on about the virtue of native apps the Music app is complete dogshit. Even with the recent slightly more native “rewrite” I still spend ages waiting for screens to load. Spotify is so much snappier.
- karatinversion 4y ago
  Surprised by this comment - in my experience, Spotify is the only application I’ve used which takes a noticeable time to render its window when I alt-tab to it.
  - basisword 4y ago
    I mean alt-tabbing to it isn’t really ‘using’ it. I was referring to searching, clicking links to albums/playlists etc. with Apple Music these all load like a webpage so you get a white screen while they load.
- 0x00000000 4y ago
  My biggest issue with it is that every time my phone connects to bluetooth Apple Music starts playing my entire library on shuffle wasting all of my data and battery and there is no way to turn off this feature. It seriously has me contemplating switching but the alternatives are not appealing.
  - basisword 4y ago
    Definitely a bug and not a feature. I’ve never had this happen, ever.
Nextgrid 4y ago
> Why would you want to torment paying customers like that? That's the problem with today's tech industry. The objective is not money, it's "growth and engagement".
- the_snooze 4y ago
  Users are a resource to exploit, not customers to serve. Even if those are users are paying.
- noahtallen 4y ago
  Well, the objective is still money, just coming from another source (ads or investors who want to see engagement)
arpanetus 4y ago
Wait, what java runtime has to do with spotify?
- karatinversion 4y ago
  “Joe Rogan Experience”
- deleted 4y ago
  [deleted]
WORMS_EAT_WORMS 4y ago
Hey something about this comment just seemed a bit over the top negative/angry and didn’t sit right with me. Hope you remember not to take all these small frustrations too seriously in life. Wishing you well and sending positive vibes. (and I switched to Apple too)
- boesboes 4y ago
  Thank you :) I can get overly frustrated with tech, but have learned to move on. Most of the time atleast haha
- psyc 4y ago
  Here's mine. Fuck Spotify. Any user problem gets referred to the suggestion box where you'll always be told to go fuck yourself. That's the only attitude they know: fuck you with a generic smile. There's this feature that they think is neat, and nobody wants, where they'll switch to whatever device you pick up and pick up where you left off. The problem is that for many users, the only thing it does is persistently switch to whatever device you're not using, including your neighbor's, thereby rendering the whole app 100% unusable. And you can't turn it off. There's a 7-year-long thread on their support forum - the only recourse - going right up to the present day, of people begging them either make the feature optional or fix it. And the only response they ever give is a straight "We are not going to fix this." Fuck. Spotify.
  - jiggyjace 4y ago
    Jeez all of my friends and family and I use Spotify and not once have we had issues like this. Luckily there are plenty of other streaming services to use mate
  - vlunkr 4y ago
    Link to the thread? That description doesn't make sense to me.
    - psyc 4y ago
      https://community.spotify.com/t5/Desktop-Mac/Spotify-Connect-Spotify-Switches-Playback-Device-Randomly/td-p/1106484 https://community.spotify.com/t5/Desktop-Mac/Spotify-Connect... https://community.spotify.com/t5/Android/Turn-off-Spotify-Connect/td-p/691476/page/22 https://community.spotify.com/t5/Android/Turn-off-Spotify-Co... https://community.spotify.com/t5/Closed-Ideas/Connect-Make-Spotify-Connect-a-Choice/idi-p/729015#comments https://community.spotify.com/t5/Closed-Ideas/Connect-Make-S... Look how the fuckers mark the second one “Solved” for their decision to do dick about it. Primo customer service.

basisword 4y ago

>> So I switched back to Apple music. It's pretty shit, but at least I get to decide what I want to listen too. I love and hate Apple Music. The library style interface is great. But for a company that hangs on about the virtue of native apps the Music app is complete dogshit. Even with the recent slightly more native “rewrite” I still spend ages waiting for screens to load. Spotify is so much snappier.

karatinversion 4y ago
Surprised by this comment - in my experience, Spotify is the only application I’ve used which takes a noticeable time to render its window when I alt-tab to it.
- basisword 4y ago
  I mean alt-tabbing to it isn’t really ‘using’ it. I was referring to searching, clicking links to albums/playlists etc. with Apple Music these all load like a webpage so you get a white screen while they load.
0x00000000 4y ago
My biggest issue with it is that every time my phone connects to bluetooth Apple Music starts playing my entire library on shuffle wasting all of my data and battery and there is no way to turn off this feature. It seriously has me contemplating switching but the alternatives are not appealing.
- basisword 4y ago
  Definitely a bug and not a feature. I’ve never had this happen, ever.

Nextgrid 4y ago

> Why would you want to torment paying customers like that? That's the problem with today's tech industry. The objective is not money, it's "growth and engagement".

the_snooze 4y ago
Users are a resource to exploit, not customers to serve. Even if those are users are paying.
noahtallen 4y ago
Well, the objective is still money, just coming from another source (ads or investors who want to see engagement)

arpanetus 4y ago

Wait, what java runtime has to do with spotify?

karatinversion 4y ago
“Joe Rogan Experience”
deleted 4y ago
[deleted]

WORMS_EAT_WORMS 4y ago

Hey something about this comment just seemed a bit over the top negative/angry and didn’t sit right with me. Hope you remember not to take all these small frustrations too seriously in life. Wishing you well and sending positive vibes. (and I switched to Apple too)

boesboes 4y ago
Thank you :) I can get overly frustrated with tech, but have learned to move on. Most of the time atleast haha
psyc 4y ago
Here's mine. Fuck Spotify. Any user problem gets referred to the suggestion box where you'll always be told to go fuck yourself. That's the only attitude they know: fuck you with a generic smile. There's this feature that they think is neat, and nobody wants, where they'll switch to whatever device you pick up and pick up where you left off. The problem is that for many users, the only thing it does is persistently switch to whatever device you're not using, including your neighbor's, thereby rendering the whole app 100% unusable. And you can't turn it off. There's a 7-year-long thread on their support forum - the only recourse - going right up to the present day, of people begging them either make the feature optional or fix it. And the only response they ever give is a straight "We are not going to fix this." Fuck. Spotify.
- jiggyjace 4y ago
  Jeez all of my friends and family and I use Spotify and not once have we had issues like this. Luckily there are plenty of other streaming services to use mate
- vlunkr 4y ago
  Link to the thread? That description doesn't make sense to me.
  - psyc 4y ago
    https://community.spotify.com/t5/Desktop-Mac/Spotify-Connect-Spotify-Switches-Playback-Device-Randomly/td-p/1106484 https://community.spotify.com/t5/Desktop-Mac/Spotify-Connect... https://community.spotify.com/t5/Android/Turn-off-Spotify-Connect/td-p/691476/page/22 https://community.spotify.com/t5/Android/Turn-off-Spotify-Co... https://community.spotify.com/t5/Closed-Ideas/Connect-Make-Spotify-Connect-a-Choice/idi-p/729015#comments https://community.spotify.com/t5/Closed-Ideas/Connect-Make-S... Look how the fuckers mark the second one “Solved” for their decision to do dick about it. Primo customer service.