Spotify's UI and their response to features is the worst thing ever. I really wish Play Music or whatever started integrating Youtube video music as well, and that it actually stopped skipping during play so I could make the switch.
Like I can't re-size columns anymore. Used to be able to do this. Now it's gone. It's super obnoxious for playlists that have classical music in them because oftentimes the piece gets cut off.
Then there are SO many bugs in the UI. I had a super annoying one a few weeks ago where I have shuffle on, and if I manually picked a song to play, that would turn shuffle off. So any time I wanted to hear a specific song in my 300+ song playlist, I had to turn shuffle on again.
Oh and ANOTHER super obnoxious bug/feature: after a while, downloaded playlists just aren't downloaded anymore. This is extra annoying for flights because I KNOW I have playlists set to download, I KNOW they finished downloading, I KNOW they were downloaded and playable for a few weeks, but still every damn time I get on the plane, after a few weeks of the playlist being downloaded, the files are gone. And I'm stuck on the plane in offline mode with no music to listen to. Play music doesn't have this issue. In fact, I don't have to tell it to download anything. Last weekend on my flight to LA, Play Music had cached/downloaded the two playlists I use the most.
I've been a paying Spotify subscriber since 2010. Slowly I've grown dissatisfied with their service.
They killed the instant notifications of new album releases of bands that you follow. They replaced it with a weekly 'Release Radar' that comprises a selection of new music catered to your taste. It seems that the feature has a bias towards certain artists. I listened to Martin Garrix a couple of times years ago and he seems to pop up every few weeks in my 'Release Radar' even though all I really listen to these days is improvised jazz. It doesn't make sense and it isn't in my best interest. Perhaps there is an ulterior financial motive behind 'Release Radar' where record companies can bid for a place in that list, but I'm not sure. What I really want is to get a notification the minute my favorite artists release an album. Surely this shouldn't be too much asked in this day and age.
Until recently you could use search operators like year:1968 genre:jazz and now it's gone. I really like it when you can query repositories of data (music, in the case of Spotify) as a database.
These things really irk me and I'd love to migrate to a (legal) service that does this properly and is relatively free of "smart algorithms", and I wouldn't mind paying $50 a month or maybe more for it.
>I really wish Play Music or whatever started integrating Youtube video music as well
Oh boy! I'm so excited to tell you that YouTube Premium is the membership for you!
I just got the free trial a few weeks ago when it launched in Canada and it is FANTASTIC.
Plus, I just discovered the YouTube music app and it is AMAZING.
Not only can you download all the YouTube music you want offline, but you can easily download full videos -- right now I have a ton of Tableau and Excel tutorials to work through on my commute!
Hope I don't come off as a shill, but given that I commute 1-3 hours each way everyday, YouTube is a huge step up from torrents.
I’m pretty excited too, but all I’m getting is the “Coming to your country soon” type deal. It really boggles the mind why they can’t make it available sooner.
Is this with uploaded music? If so, it could be an issue with regular music syncing deleting or having them become unavailable. That feature is super finicky and iffy and I only ever do manual syncs to mostly avoid it.
Another fun classical music bug is when you try to share those songs in Discord and they break the stream, probably because the titles are too long.
It's a little known feature where you can get Spotify to sync local files across devices by putting both devices on the same wi-fi network. It's a pain, though, and it sometimes fails in the ways I'm talking about (I still use the feature anyway).
Like I can't re-size columns anymore. Used to be able to do this. Now it's gone. It's super obnoxious for playlists that have classical music in them because oftentimes the piece gets cut off.
Then there are SO many bugs in the UI. I had a super annoying one a few weeks ago where I have shuffle on, and if I manually picked a song to play, that would turn shuffle off. So any time I wanted to hear a specific song in my 300+ song playlist, I had to turn shuffle on again.
Oh and ANOTHER super obnoxious bug/feature: after a while, downloaded playlists just aren't downloaded anymore. This is extra annoying for flights because I KNOW I have playlists set to download, I KNOW they finished downloading, I KNOW they were downloaded and playable for a few weeks, but still every damn time I get on the plane, after a few weeks of the playlist being downloaded, the files are gone. And I'm stuck on the plane in offline mode with no music to listen to. Play music doesn't have this issue. In fact, I don't have to tell it to download anything. Last weekend on my flight to LA, Play Music had cached/downloaded the two playlists I use the most.
Spotify is such garbage. I hate it so much.