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I'd love streaming if the client software were actually useful. All of them are disaster in UX if you do more than listening to music in the background. Peak de

I'd love streaming if the client software were actually useful. All of them are disaster in UX if you do more than listening to music in the background. Peak design for me was iTunes 10 and Winamp 2. Which means control/status panel, a queue list and customizable table views for the songs (optional grid view to browse by album). Most streaming clients are click/scroll hell.

bongodongobob 2y ago
I only see this mentality here. On Spotify, I search for a song I want to hear and I play it. Or I add it to a playlist. What more do you want? For it to sense your mood and queue up what you played last year during Oct-November before 10 am while you were driving? I don't understand how the tech crowd thinks Spotify is so hard to use. My 70 year old parents have no issues navigating it.
- lucsky 2y ago
  Not "hard" to use, no, nobody's saying that. But painful to use for anything else than scroll/click/play, absolutely yes. Active music discovery is terrible, tracking your "progress" in your weekly releases listening is actively being made impossible (the list is seemingly being re-randomized, at random), the obsessive emphasis on tracks rather than albums or artists is very limiting, UIs are not flexible enough, and I could go on for a while. All streaming clients are currently hot garbage. Again, not hard to use, just extremely user hostile for anything more than click and play.
- averageRoyalty 2y ago
  I find it frustrating, not difficult. My "offline" songs are sometimes no longer downloaded. Trying to navigate to my saved songs takes me past multiple ads for podcasts I don't care about, and looking up an artist gives me ads for shows they're playing or their new albums. I just want my collection of music and to be able to play it without wading through a sea of garbage.
- cowboylowrez 2y ago
  Spotify doesn't work on my desktop computer. Linux and firefox. Granted, I'm sure your 70 year old parents aren't running linux lol.

bongodongobob 2y ago

I only see this mentality here. On Spotify, I search for a song I want to hear and I play it. Or I add it to a playlist. What more do you want? For it to sense your mood and queue up what you played last year during Oct-November before 10 am while you were driving? I don't understand how the tech crowd thinks Spotify is so hard to use. My 70 year old parents have no issues navigating it.

lucsky 2y ago
Not "hard" to use, no, nobody's saying that. But painful to use for anything else than scroll/click/play, absolutely yes. Active music discovery is terrible, tracking your "progress" in your weekly releases listening is actively being made impossible (the list is seemingly being re-randomized, at random), the obsessive emphasis on tracks rather than albums or artists is very limiting, UIs are not flexible enough, and I could go on for a while. All streaming clients are currently hot garbage. Again, not hard to use, just extremely user hostile for anything more than click and play.
averageRoyalty 2y ago
I find it frustrating, not difficult. My "offline" songs are sometimes no longer downloaded. Trying to navigate to my saved songs takes me past multiple ads for podcasts I don't care about, and looking up an artist gives me ads for shows they're playing or their new albums. I just want my collection of music and to be able to play it without wading through a sea of garbage.
cowboylowrez 2y ago
Spotify doesn't work on my desktop computer. Linux and firefox. Granted, I'm sure your 70 year old parents aren't running linux lol.