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As someone who uses Spotify every day, I hate it. I hate their expanding markets while constantly making the app more bloated, slow, and less intuitive. Really,

by jjice 4y ago

As someone who uses Spotify every day, I hate it. I hate their expanding markets while constantly making the app more bloated, slow, and less intuitive. Really, you're going to fill my recommended page with podcasts you've paid a ton of money for exclusivity instead of showing me recommended music that's relevant to me, like they used to? Audiobooks aren't going to make my music experience any better either. Can't wait for a new, slower UI update in 3 months and for them to take away lyrics _again_. I'm a bit salty here and that's a bit of a rant, but I just want to stream music and they make it progressively harder.

w0m 4y ago
spotify podcasts are kind of garbage imo; player just doesn't handle it well moving between or around episodes and music depending on what I'm doing.
jnsaff2 4y ago
dmitriid 4y ago
> for them to take away lyrics _again_ Disclaimer: I work at Spotify, but I can't speak directly for the teams handling this. So. Lyrics, and any text that accompanies audio in general (for example, if you try to show audiobook text while it's playing, or audio transcript of a podcast, or...) is a legal minefield. So, if some text that accompanies audio disappears... it's likely for legal/licensing reasons, not because devs are incompetent. That said, as an incompetent dev myself, features may disappear due to incompetence, too :)
- jjice 4y ago
  Oh I bet it gets tricky on the legal front. I was more referring to the entire feature being removed like 5 or 6 years ago I think, but I imagine there was an issue with the partnership with Genius or whoever the original lyric supplier was.
  - dmitriid 4y ago
    I can neither confirm nor deny that :) There was a partnership with Musixmatch for lyrics, but it ended for reasons I don't know (and if I knew I couldn't tell you) https://community.spotify.com/t5/Desktop-Windows/Lyrics-feature-unavailable/td-p/1356490/page/8 https://community.spotify.com/t5/Desktop-Windows/Lyrics-feat... Getting the lyrics back was another journey that I also don't know the details of (and also couldn't tell you :) )
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by jjice 4y ago

w0m 4y ago

spotify podcasts are kind of garbage imo; player just doesn't handle it well moving between or around episodes and music depending on what I'm doing.

jnsaff2 4y ago

dmitriid 4y ago

> for them to take away lyrics _again_ Disclaimer: I work at Spotify, but I can't speak directly for the teams handling this. So. Lyrics, and any text that accompanies audio in general (for example, if you try to show audiobook text while it's playing, or audio transcript of a podcast, or...) is a legal minefield. So, if some text that accompanies audio disappears... it's likely for legal/licensing reasons, not because devs are incompetent. That said, as an incompetent dev myself, features may disappear due to incompetence, too :)

jjice 4y ago
Oh I bet it gets tricky on the legal front. I was more referring to the entire feature being removed like 5 or 6 years ago I think, but I imagine there was an issue with the partnership with Genius or whoever the original lyric supplier was.
- dmitriid 4y ago
  I can neither confirm nor deny that :) There was a partnership with Musixmatch for lyrics, but it ended for reasons I don't know (and if I knew I couldn't tell you) https://community.spotify.com/t5/Desktop-Windows/Lyrics-feature-unavailable/td-p/1356490/page/8 https://community.spotify.com/t5/Desktop-Windows/Lyrics-feat... Getting the lyrics back was another journey that I also don't know the details of (and also couldn't tell you :) )

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