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Looking forward to ditching Spotify. Stopped paying once they removed Cmd-F filtering and the app started to lag on my 2014 Macbook Pro (with dedicated GPU). A

by seivan 11y ago

Looking forward to ditching Spotify. Stopped paying once they removed Cmd-F filtering and the app started to lag on my 2014 Macbook Pro (with dedicated GPU). Also, I agree with the keynote speakers, Spotify "Radio" never worked for me. Always got repeated songs or songs I hated. I wanted automated "thumbs up" if I finished a song, or "thumbs down" if I skipped it, without having to worry about repeated songs. And a million of other complaints.

LesZedCB 11y ago
I don't have a compelling reason to leave spotify yet, but I'm open to changing. I think their redesigned app aesthetic is pretty nice. I have good luck with the radio and repeated songs, but I wish it were smarter about genre/mood matching.
hammock 11y ago
>Stopped paying once they removed Cmd-F filtering Didn't realize Ctrl-F was ever a thing in Spotify. But I just tried it and it works for me (MacBook Pro). I'll be trying that out more now.
- seivan 11y ago
  Go to an artist page or "Global Top 50" and try that. As I said, I never figured why they removed it or disabled it on certain places.
  - a1k0n 11y ago
    Because the desktop app got a ground-up rewrite and cmd-f didn't make it back in to all views yet.
    - seivan 11y ago
      I know how the engineers must have felt, I bet they wanted more time to make it more modular so they could have just gone self.addComponent(new Filterable()) or some shit and it would have added Cmd/Ctrl-F
zyxley 11y ago
> Always got repeated songs This has started to get to me. It seems like if I pick any even mildly obscure artist as the seed for a radio stream, I've got high chances of the same songs showing up in the first half hour even across different days.
ryanSrich 11y ago
I'm so glad I finally have an alternative to Spotify. They removed staring, apps, and filtering. Their radio is abysmal (almost as bad as Pandora). What I'd really like to see is a radio feature that plays songs that sound like the song you requested. What all these algorithms seem todo is play songs that other people listened to after or before the song you requested. Or they just play something in the same genre. Genres are kind of dead now, so it doesn't make sense to recommend songs this way. Why not suggest songs with similar guitar riffs? Why not suggest songs with artists that have similar voices?
- jessriedel 11y ago
  > What I'd really like to see is a radio feature that plays songs that sound like the song you requested. Isn't this exactly what Pandora does? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Music_Genome_Project https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Music_Genome_Project
  - felixgallo 11y ago
    It's also what spotify does. On a song, in the menu, choose to start a radio station from that song.
  - archagon 11y ago
    How I wish they would open up that API. It would be so cool to search for music based on attributes, as in "give me a song in minor, with an electric guitar lead, with a virtuosic guitar solo, with female vocals, and with electronic instruments". You can kind of do that now by Googling the Spotify keywords, but it's not perfect. And what if you could create a custom radio based on attributes? Even better! I fear that if Pandora ever goes away, this immense collection of musical knowledge will go with it.
    - hamburglar 11y ago
      http://acousticbrainz.org/ http://acousticbrainz.org/ It's a start. I don't think you can query it on specific attributes like that yet.
gpmcadam 11y ago
Another Spotify customer here ready to jump ship. The entire iTunes catalog and Family Sharing are the 2 features I was hoping for and I'm really happy to see them available from release.
- jaronheard 11y ago
  The entire iTunes catalog available for streaming would be a killer feature. Where did you see hear that the entire catalog would be available to stream?
  - gpmcadam 11y ago
    > First, it’s iTunes. iTunes on-demand and in the cloud, where you can search for and stream any song available in the library. (It’s a huge, huge library.) https://www.apple.com/pr/library/2015/06/08Introducing-Apple-Music-All-The-Ways-You-Love-Music-All-in-One-Place-.html https://www.apple.com/pr/library/2015/06/08Introducing-Apple... Also alluded to here in the Apple presser: > whether from the iTunes Store® or ripped CDs — your music now lives in one place alongside the Apple Music catalog with over 30 million songs. https://www.apple.com/pr/library/2015/06/08Introducing-Apple-Music-All-The-Ways-You-Love-Music-All-in-One-Place-.html https://www.apple.com/pr/library/2015/06/08Introducing-Apple...
jayceekay 11y ago
cmd + f works for me
emilsundberg 11y ago
Don't forget the the annoying red notification bubble when a new song has being added to a playlist. Which never needs a notification bubble. That simple thing will make me switch instantly to Apple Music. The Spotify app was so much better a couple of years ago when just a few people worked on it.
lazuli 11y ago
CMD-F is back and better than ever!!!
myblake 11y ago
cmd+f is back now, but I agree that was a breathtakingly bad product decision, I'm amazed they removed the feature and left it out for like two months. It's not like it's a hard product to dog food or they otherwise have shitty product sense.

by seivan 11y ago

LesZedCB 11y ago

I don't have a compelling reason to leave spotify yet, but I'm open to changing. I think their redesigned app aesthetic is pretty nice. I have good luck with the radio and repeated songs, but I wish it were smarter about genre/mood matching.

hammock 11y ago

>Stopped paying once they removed Cmd-F filtering Didn't realize Ctrl-F was ever a thing in Spotify. But I just tried it and it works for me (MacBook Pro). I'll be trying that out more now.

seivan 11y ago
Go to an artist page or "Global Top 50" and try that. As I said, I never figured why they removed it or disabled it on certain places.
- a1k0n 11y ago
  Because the desktop app got a ground-up rewrite and cmd-f didn't make it back in to all views yet.
  - seivan 11y ago
    I know how the engineers must have felt, I bet they wanted more time to make it more modular so they could have just gone self.addComponent(new Filterable()) or some shit and it would have added Cmd/Ctrl-F

zyxley 11y ago

> Always got repeated songs This has started to get to me. It seems like if I pick any even mildly obscure artist as the seed for a radio stream, I've got high chances of the same songs showing up in the first half hour even across different days.

ryanSrich 11y ago

I'm so glad I finally have an alternative to Spotify. They removed staring, apps, and filtering. Their radio is abysmal (almost as bad as Pandora). What I'd really like to see is a radio feature that plays songs that sound like the song you requested. What all these algorithms seem todo is play songs that other people listened to after or before the song you requested. Or they just play something in the same genre. Genres are kind of dead now, so it doesn't make sense to recommend songs this way. Why not suggest songs with similar guitar riffs? Why not suggest songs with artists that have similar voices?

jessriedel 11y ago
> What I'd really like to see is a radio feature that plays songs that sound like the song you requested. Isn't this exactly what Pandora does? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Music_Genome_Project https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Music_Genome_Project
- felixgallo 11y ago
  It's also what spotify does. On a song, in the menu, choose to start a radio station from that song.
- archagon 11y ago
  How I wish they would open up that API. It would be so cool to search for music based on attributes, as in "give me a song in minor, with an electric guitar lead, with a virtuosic guitar solo, with female vocals, and with electronic instruments". You can kind of do that now by Googling the Spotify keywords, but it's not perfect. And what if you could create a custom radio based on attributes? Even better! I fear that if Pandora ever goes away, this immense collection of musical knowledge will go with it.
  - hamburglar 11y ago
    http://acousticbrainz.org/ http://acousticbrainz.org/ It's a start. I don't think you can query it on specific attributes like that yet.

gpmcadam 11y ago

Another Spotify customer here ready to jump ship. The entire iTunes catalog and Family Sharing are the 2 features I was hoping for and I'm really happy to see them available from release.

jaronheard 11y ago
The entire iTunes catalog available for streaming would be a killer feature. Where did you see hear that the entire catalog would be available to stream?
- gpmcadam 11y ago
  > First, it’s iTunes. iTunes on-demand and in the cloud, where you can search for and stream any song available in the library. (It’s a huge, huge library.) https://www.apple.com/pr/library/2015/06/08Introducing-Apple-Music-All-The-Ways-You-Love-Music-All-in-One-Place-.html https://www.apple.com/pr/library/2015/06/08Introducing-Apple... Also alluded to here in the Apple presser: > whether from the iTunes Store® or ripped CDs — your music now lives in one place alongside the Apple Music catalog with over 30 million songs. https://www.apple.com/pr/library/2015/06/08Introducing-Apple-Music-All-The-Ways-You-Love-Music-All-in-One-Place-.html https://www.apple.com/pr/library/2015/06/08Introducing-Apple...

jayceekay 11y ago

cmd + f works for me

emilsundberg 11y ago

Don't forget the the annoying red notification bubble when a new song has being added to a playlist. Which never needs a notification bubble. That simple thing will make me switch instantly to Apple Music. The Spotify app was so much better a couple of years ago when just a few people worked on it.

lazuli 11y ago

CMD-F is back and better than ever!!!

myblake 11y ago

cmd+f is back now, but I agree that was a breathtakingly bad product decision, I'm amazed they removed the feature and left it out for like two months. It's not like it's a hard product to dog food or they otherwise have shitty product sense.