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I like Spotify but it has got a bit bloated with audiobooks, podcasts and features like videos that I do not care for. I also find Spotify makes finding and lis

I like Spotify but it has got a bit bloated with audiobooks, podcasts and features like videos that I do not care for. I also find Spotify makes finding and listening to albums less intuitive, it feels like everything is setup for passive listening to algorithmically generated playlists. That's fine and it is how I listen to music sometimes, particularly for music discovery. But I use other services and means to have a library because Spotify's UI for it isn't great. I can't help but think that's intentional for some reason. I will also throw some points Spotify's way for having half decent support for API clients, decent hardware support (that is for consumers, not sure what the experience is like for a developer). I have an NFC card system setup for albums and playlists so I can have a limited physical library. This uses Spotify's libraries because the support is good. For no fuss music Tidal has been good, but it certainly has fewer artists.

phainopepla2 1y ago
> it feels like everything is setup for passive listening to algorithmically generated playlists Even worse, algorithmically generated playlists of algorithmically generated music
ghusto 1y ago
> I use other services and means to have a library because Spotify's UI for it isn't great. I can't help but think that's intentional for some reason It is intentional. That kind of poor UX takes _designing_.
phatfish 1y ago
I have no trouble ignoring the auto-generated playlists and finding the album. In my experience their recommendations pretty terrible, always a step behind my current taste. The "song radio" playlists are useful though, you get a decent list of songs in a similar style when you are in that mood. My new music discovery is almost entirely outside of Spotify, mostly online radio. I have listened to Audiobooks so no issue with that myself, it was a sweetener when they started ramping the price after COVID. Handy for young kids as an TV alternative as well. The desktop client UX has gotten much better over the last ~2 years. Nice compact layout options and really responsive scrolling artists with massive catalogues like in classical. It's the first time I've felt it matches their pre-Electron native UI client from 2012-ish.
piva00 1y ago
What do you mean? I can search for an artist, get to the artist page and see all their albums listed by type (album, single, EP, compilations, etc.). I don't see what is not intuitive about it, how could it be better?

phainopepla2 1y ago

> it feels like everything is setup for passive listening to algorithmically generated playlists Even worse, algorithmically generated playlists of algorithmically generated music

ghusto 1y ago

> I use other services and means to have a library because Spotify's UI for it isn't great. I can't help but think that's intentional for some reason It is intentional. That kind of poor UX takes _designing_.

phatfish 1y ago

I have no trouble ignoring the auto-generated playlists and finding the album. In my experience their recommendations pretty terrible, always a step behind my current taste. The "song radio" playlists are useful though, you get a decent list of songs in a similar style when you are in that mood. My new music discovery is almost entirely outside of Spotify, mostly online radio. I have listened to Audiobooks so no issue with that myself, it was a sweetener when they started ramping the price after COVID. Handy for young kids as an TV alternative as well. The desktop client UX has gotten much better over the last ~2 years. Nice compact layout options and really responsive scrolling artists with massive catalogues like in classical. It's the first time I've felt it matches their pre-Electron native UI client from 2012-ish.

piva00 1y ago

What do you mean? I can search for an artist, get to the artist page and see all their albums listed by type (album, single, EP, compilations, etc.). I don't see what is not intuitive about it, how could it be better?