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I hope that will be the case but I'm not holding my breath, they have received over $120M in funding up to this point. They had so much potential when they laun
by dntrkv 12y ago
I hope that will be the case but I'm not holding my breath, they have received over $120M in funding up to this point. They had so much potential when they launched and in the last year or so they have just fell behind. When they moved over to this new look there was so much functionality lost and so many critical bugs introduced that they still haven't fixed.
Infinite scroll on their site is completely unusable, on the desktop and on the iPhone. Try to scroll past page 5 on either device and it will begin to slow to crawl, and then it will just start repeating pages of songs over and over. As you scroll, they load more and more elements until the page is using a ridiculous amount of ram. There is no playlist shuffle capability on the iPhone. The shuffle functionality on the desktop is a joke, it shuffles the current page of songs that have been pulled in via infinite scroll.
The whole site in general is very buggy. Many times I can't scroll through my list of playlists when I try to add a song to a playlist. Sometimes I'll like a song and it won't register. All these things have made it become almost unbearable to use.
So between the non-working scroll and lack of real shuffle, it is impossible for me to access any songs I have liked when I started my account. Which are the main songs I want to access. I was thinking of creating my own client on top of their API but I'm worried it will get pulled off the app store like they did with Soundflake.
- k-mcgrady 12y agoAlthough I agree with most of your assessment I have to disagree with this: >> They had so much potential when they launched and in the last year or so they have just fell behind. Fallen behind who or what? They are pretty much the YouTube for audio now. If you browse any of the major music sites of even small blogs they embed SoundCloud. When an artist releases an album stream a week before the release and publishes is on Rolling Stone etc. - it's nearly always with a SoundCloud embed. I agree they really get to fix the product because it's very buggy and missing features that would make the playback experience better (as someone with music on it the artist side of things is quite good) but I don't see anyone coming and overtaking them anytime soon. There aren't really any viable competitors.
- dntrkv 12y agoI meant they have fallen behind features/bug fixes. Poor wording on my part. But yes, I agree. They don't have any real competitors at the moment, so that may be part of the reason they aren't improving their product. Don't get me wrong, I think they have an awesome product, I just thought these UX issues were temporary until they worked out all the bugs in the new site, but it has been a while now. I'm really interested to find out why they pulled Soundflake off the app store though. Anyone know?