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Nice to finally have something going the other direction; The recent SoundCloud redesign is a usability nightmare. > SoundCloud: Mind if we keep playing music

by walls 14y ago

Nice to finally have something going the other direction; The recent SoundCloud redesign is a usability nightmare. > SoundCloud: Mind if we keep playing music after this song with no indicator of how to stop it or setting to prevent it from happening? Too bad!

ddfreyne 14y ago
I admit that the behavior is quite odd at first, but once you get used to it, it is really useful. It is the behavior you would expect in a desktop app — for example, you wouldn’t want iTunes to stop playing when you select a playlist, would you?
- drkmtr999 14y ago
  He's not talking about playing a playlist. Usually, users create and manage playlists. Are you familiar?
  - ddfreyne 14y ago
    I was using iTunes playlists as an example that switching to different parts of the UI does not interrupt playback.
    - mpyne 14y ago
      But was the OP talking about that? It sounded like he was complaining that music continued to play from somewhere after the one song was linked to finished.
- walls 14y ago
  Yes, that would be expected if I selected a playlist. Unfortunately, if I link you directly to a single song, and you click play, SoundCloud decides you came wanting to hear music for as long as the tab is open. All of this ignores the fact there's no way (that I've found, and no, I'm not signing up) to disable 'automatic playlist' behavior. Worse than that, there's no obvious way to just STOP the second track without navigating away. Hell, the only indicator that a second song is even playing, other than my seething rage, is the 50px wide audio visualization tucked away in the top bar.
lzh-ng 14y ago
I had the same issue until I discovered you can pause playback with spacebar. I agree that the lack of an indication for pause/play is a serious oversight. That being said I prefer the new design over the old.
- hipsters_unite 14y ago
  Agreed, the new design is better but the autoplay feature is frankly baffling - doubly so when you consider the lack of curation/low quality/irrelevance of 'related' tracks.

by walls 14y ago

ddfreyne 14y ago

I admit that the behavior is quite odd at first, but once you get used to it, it is really useful. It is the behavior you would expect in a desktop app — for example, you wouldn’t want iTunes to stop playing when you select a playlist, would you?

drkmtr999 14y ago
He's not talking about playing a playlist. Usually, users create and manage playlists. Are you familiar?
- ddfreyne 14y ago
  I was using iTunes playlists as an example that switching to different parts of the UI does not interrupt playback.
  - mpyne 14y ago
    But was the OP talking about that? It sounded like he was complaining that music continued to play from somewhere after the one song was linked to finished.
walls 14y ago
Yes, that would be expected if I selected a playlist. Unfortunately, if I link you directly to a single song, and you click play, SoundCloud decides you came wanting to hear music for as long as the tab is open. All of this ignores the fact there's no way (that I've found, and no, I'm not signing up) to disable 'automatic playlist' behavior. Worse than that, there's no obvious way to just STOP the second track without navigating away. Hell, the only indicator that a second song is even playing, other than my seething rage, is the 50px wide audio visualization tucked away in the top bar.

lzh-ng 14y ago

I had the same issue until I discovered you can pause playback with spacebar. I agree that the lack of an indication for pause/play is a serious oversight. That being said I prefer the new design over the old.

hipsters_unite 14y ago
Agreed, the new design is better but the autoplay feature is frankly baffling - doubly so when you consider the lack of curation/low quality/irrelevance of 'related' tracks.