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Curious to know what you find obnoxious about their desktop UI (Mac or Windows?).

by pm 11y ago

octatoan 11y ago
Axe ads?
- cdcarter 11y ago
  Not really a function of the UI... Personally, in the latest updates I've found it much harder to get to whatever list you're playing from.
trustfundbaby 11y ago
let me count the ways. - They removed Album view a few years ago now (version 0.8.4) ... I still have that version installed at home because I like/need it so much. - They removed starring/favoriting of songs, in favor of some other (add song/add album) thing that just doesn't work the same way despite them asking you to try it that way. - In the latest version of their app they moved things around that had be in locked positions for YEARS ... for no reason. - Then they removed the ability to search inside of playlists ... again for no reason you can see the fury of the masses in all its beauty here ... https://community.spotify.com/t5/Help-Desktop-Linux-Mac-and/The-latest-desktop-version-is-a-downgrade/m-p/1045906#M113377 https://community.spotify.com/t5/Help-Desktop-Linux-Mac-and/... ... completely ignored by spotify of course. - Their mobile app is still mostly great but has a couple of no brainer things that they've never got right (playlists sort in reverse order from what you'd expect, now you can't delete a song from a play list without editing the entire play list etc etc etc Spotify just stopped caring about what the people wanted a long time ago ... they've gotten slow and bloated and I bet they have an army of Product managers poring over all sorts of data and making these weird decisions, instead of engaging their common sense ... either way ... if something comes along that has a bit more soul, and love for its customers ... I'm off in a heart beat, and yes, I've paid the full price for spotify for almost 4-5 years now.
- pm 11y ago
  I'm not sure if the different desktop versions have feature parity - from what I've seen of Spotify's development process, each platform is handled by a different team. Excuse my ignorance, but what is the album view, and how is it different to what's currently in the app (as there seems to be something that I'd consider to be an album view for OS X)? As for the rest of your points, you are on the money; seems to be a lack of commonsense.
  - trustfundbaby 11y ago
    This is album view https://cloudup.com/cJvEFN0tMAv https://cloudup.com/cJvEFN0tMAv The difference was that you could turn it on in any playlist not just look at it in the "Albums" sidebar item

Curious to know what you find obnoxious about their desktop UI (Mac or Windows?).

by pm 11y ago

Curious to know what you find obnoxious about their desktop UI (Mac or Windows?).

octatoan 11y ago

Axe ads?

cdcarter 11y ago
Not really a function of the UI... Personally, in the latest updates I've found it much harder to get to whatever list you're playing from.

trustfundbaby 11y ago

let me count the ways. - They removed Album view a few years ago now (version 0.8.4) ... I still have that version installed at home because I like/need it so much. - They removed starring/favoriting of songs, in favor of some other (add song/add album) thing that just doesn't work the same way despite them asking you to try it that way. - In the latest version of their app they moved things around that had be in locked positions for YEARS ... for no reason. - Then they removed the ability to search inside of playlists ... again for no reason you can see the fury of the masses in all its beauty here ... https://community.spotify.com/t5/Help-Desktop-Linux-Mac-and/The-latest-desktop-version-is-a-downgrade/m-p/1045906#M113377 https://community.spotify.com/t5/Help-Desktop-Linux-Mac-and/... ... completely ignored by spotify of course. - Their mobile app is still mostly great but has a couple of no brainer things that they've never got right (playlists sort in reverse order from what you'd expect, now you can't delete a song from a play list without editing the entire play list etc etc etc Spotify just stopped caring about what the people wanted a long time ago ... they've gotten slow and bloated and I bet they have an army of Product managers poring over all sorts of data and making these weird decisions, instead of engaging their common sense ... either way ... if something comes along that has a bit more soul, and love for its customers ... I'm off in a heart beat, and yes, I've paid the full price for spotify for almost 4-5 years now.

pm 11y ago
I'm not sure if the different desktop versions have feature parity - from what I've seen of Spotify's development process, each platform is handled by a different team. Excuse my ignorance, but what is the album view, and how is it different to what's currently in the app (as there seems to be something that I'd consider to be an album view for OS X)? As for the rest of your points, you are on the money; seems to be a lack of commonsense.
- trustfundbaby 11y ago
  This is album view https://cloudup.com/cJvEFN0tMAv https://cloudup.com/cJvEFN0tMAv The difference was that you could turn it on in any playlist not just look at it in the "Albums" sidebar item