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There are literally only three things I want from Spotify: music search, music playback, and music library organization (aka playlists) Everything else just ge
by mock-possum 3y ago
There are literally only three things I want from Spotify: music search, music playback, and music library organization (aka playlists)
Everything else just gets in the way of that.
- aksss 3y agoWhat, you don't like the full screen modal ads in the app for new and irrelevant music? The pointless stock video loops? Value, baby!
- nkozyra 3y agoOr an AI voice telling you that you're resuming a playlist? I still can't figure out how/why they gave that a green light.
- RankingMember 3y ago> why they gave that a green light After they came out with the Car Thing[1], I realized there may be a loose cannon over there at Spotify, and not in a fun, creative way, but in a "greenlights harebrained nonsense" way, like Netflix's "Qwikster" near-debacle. 1 https://carthing.spotify.com/ https://carthing.spotify.com/
- troupo 3y agoDisclaimer: I work at Spotify CarThing made sense for the US market at the time (a huge owership of old cars with barely a radio), but along the way other things interfered (I don't know how much of this is public, but time, money, licensing, regulations etc. pick any combination of those). The result was much less than it could've been, sadly. It was a quaint little device.
- aksss 3y agoSpotify on CarPlay is great, the only thing that perpetually pisses me off (maybe an apple thing?) is that lists of items (playlists, podcasts, etc) are truncated in carplay, presumably as a safety thing? I then have to pick up my phone while driving, get into the spotify app on phone to find the playlist I want, which is obviously far more dangerous to do while driving than if the full list of items was just displayed in CarPlay.
- troupo 3y agoIt could also be due to UI itself. Carplay is a weird thing with restrictions on how you build it, what elements are allowed, where and how they can be placed etc. And that intersects/conflicts with the design and the need to show information and so on :)
- barbazoo 3y agoyesterday it got me through that rabbit hole of link to some ... I don't even know what it was really, some kind of focus group maybe? Like, wtf just play the music.
- barbazoo 3y agoIt just seems too hard to resist the kind of money that forces you into the feature death spiral that Spotify has entered, that Dropbox is deep, deeeep into and that thousands of others have descended in. What do these companies have in common? Venture capital? Genuine question.
- seoulmetro 3y agoTech companies have in common that their stock to quality value is indeterminate and sales are sporadic compared to output.
- RankingMember 3y agoThe podcast integration is remarkably bad.
- hightrix 3y agoI spent a year subscribing to each streaming platform, Spotify, Youtube Music, Tidal, and a few others, in search of an adequate replacement for Google Play Music. For me, Apple Music is simply the best. No clutter, no ads, no podcasts being forced in your face. It has the best recommendations I've seen, much better than Spotify.
- antifa 3y agoSearch is barely usable, extremely basic things like play next song button plays next song don't work.