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What, 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 2y ago
  Or 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 2y 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 2y ago
      Disclaimer: 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 2y ago
        Spotify 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 2y ago
          It 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 2y ago
  yesterday 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.