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Stereotypical HN comment, but ugh how is Spotify so successful with such a terrible product. The app claimed to have downloaded my songs but when I tried to pla

Stereotypical HN comment, but ugh how is Spotify so successful with such a terrible product. The app claimed to have downloaded my songs but when I tried to play them offline, it didn't work at all. If you're playing a podcast and lose connection, you can't pause the damn podcast. I literally had to close the app to stop it. Sometimes you just get a "can't play this song" error. I'm amazed that a product this mature still has bugs this terrible.

yywwbbn 4y ago
I guess you just have to be better than the competition. And Apple Music is even worse according to some
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- bearjaws 4y ago
  Let's not even talk about YouTube Music...
  - alzoid 4y ago
    I switched to YT music and like it better than Spotify. The main thing I find is YT recommends better related music to what I am currently listening to. I found Spotify was playing the exact same songs all the time. Plus you get ad free YouTube which is a nice bonus.
pc86 4y ago
"Sometimes you get an error" isn't exactly a damning critique of the product. I've seen the podcast pausing issue before, didn't realize it was due to connection instability. I wonder what's happening on the technical side that causes that? Perhaps some remote endpoint call to stop streaming the audio results in an error which kills the entire operation?
- hardwaregeek 4y ago
  That's fair but it happens _all_ the damn time. You can't play any music. Which is like...the purpose of the app.
  - piva00 4y ago
    How long has this been happening for you?
LostSession 4y ago
I've put my head through a few walls (trees?) because of this. I do a lot of motorcycling and hiking, both of which entail a lot of time with no service. I swear the hoops you have to go through to get it to play songs offline. Never mind that sometimes it just deletes you offline connection without any notice. With google play music I never had issues. I could randomly toggle airplane mode and it would never skip a beat. Spotify however needs you to toggle offline mode and restart the app a few times before it decides it can play offline. Absolutely infuriating.
JenrHywy 4y ago
Spotify is a particularly terrible podcast client. It's fine for music, most of the time, IME
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yywwbbn 4y ago

I guess you just have to be better than the competition. And Apple Music is even worse according to some

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bearjaws 4y ago
Let's not even talk about YouTube Music...
- alzoid 4y ago
  I switched to YT music and like it better than Spotify. The main thing I find is YT recommends better related music to what I am currently listening to. I found Spotify was playing the exact same songs all the time. Plus you get ad free YouTube which is a nice bonus.

pc86 4y ago

"Sometimes you get an error" isn't exactly a damning critique of the product. I've seen the podcast pausing issue before, didn't realize it was due to connection instability. I wonder what's happening on the technical side that causes that? Perhaps some remote endpoint call to stop streaming the audio results in an error which kills the entire operation?

hardwaregeek 4y ago
That's fair but it happens _all_ the damn time. You can't play any music. Which is like...the purpose of the app.
- piva00 4y ago
  How long has this been happening for you?

LostSession 4y ago

I've put my head through a few walls (trees?) because of this. I do a lot of motorcycling and hiking, both of which entail a lot of time with no service. I swear the hoops you have to go through to get it to play songs offline. Never mind that sometimes it just deletes you offline connection without any notice. With google play music I never had issues. I could randomly toggle airplane mode and it would never skip a beat. Spotify however needs you to toggle offline mode and restart the app a few times before it decides it can play offline. Absolutely infuriating.

JenrHywy 4y ago

Spotify is a particularly terrible podcast client. It's fine for music, most of the time, IME

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