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I'm the opposite! I've used Spotify (and other streaming apps) for years. I finally got tired that there was no streaming app that: * Worked well with Sonos
by shepherdjerred 4y ago
I'm the opposite!
I've used Spotify (and other streaming apps) for years. I finally got tired that there was no streaming app that:
* Worked well with Sonos
* Provided high quality music
* Had good automatic caching of music *note below*
I tried Spotify, TIDAL, and Apple Music before giving up and putting my library on Plex + Plexamp.
*note*: Why is Spotify SO BAD when it comes to caching. It's so strange. There are so many situtations where it doesn't work, but it should.
I have the entire contents of an album (but not the album itself) on playlist. The playlist is downloaded offline. Spotify doesn't let me search or play the songs in the album unless I navigate to the playlist.
If I just played a song on data, and I lose my connection and try to re-play it, Spotify won't let me! Does it really not maintain a cache of songs that I played three minutes ago?
Search becomes entirely useless when you're transitioning from WiFi to mobile data. This happened to me _every_ _single_ _time_ that I would get into my car and start music before driving. Spotify would refuse to let me do anything until I disabled WiFi.
Spotify has to be one of the worst widely used applications.
- jasonkester 4y agoDoes it really not maintain a cache of songs that I played three minutes ago? My beef with Apple Music is that they can’t even be bothered to cache the whole song that you’re listening to. The number of times that I’ve started playing an album on my phone then had it stop the instant I drive out of WiFi range. You had a whole minute to download three megabytes over fibre and didn’t even bother. 5G is ubiquitous and perfect everywhere, right? It sure is in the Bay Area where all us apple engineers live, so how about we cache, say, one second of audio in case somebody goes through a tunnel or something.
- shepherdjerred 4y agoApple Music had different but similar problems regarding caching when I used it, which is why I ultimately moved away from it. I did absolutely love the Dolby Atmos music though. I hope that catches on.