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I think it's more about the UI - which looks near-identical to Spotify's.

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Earlier Spotify desktop client was a state of art. 2 megabytes, every function works seamlessly.

It's developed by the same author of original uTorrent, Ludvig Strigeu.

Nowadays, Spotify kinda bloats with cef and funny feeling HTML5 UI.

Trivia: Ludvig Strigeus also developed Spotiamp http://news.spotify.com/us/2013/12/20/spotiamp-long-live-the...

Yes! I remember when they introduced new client. I was less than impressed. I think the new one is built on chromium or at least uses it partially as base.

uT was a good client, but it pales in comparison to his other project, OpenTTD.

Very interesting! OpenTTD is truly great, and a program that I will always remember for giving me a crick in the neck whilst playing on it all weekend (on a tiny netbook).

Actually all he really* did for OpenTTD was disassemble the original TTD into C, which became the first version of OpenTTD. He left in the early 0.x stages of OpenTTD.

*Ok it's still an epic task :)

Wow, TIL that the same guy wrote uTorrent, Spotify and OpenTTD. His Wikipedia page informs me he was behind ScummVM as well! That's an impressive portfolio.

I loved the old client, I want it back as much I want my deceased mother come back to life, I really loved that program. It worked so smooth on my crappy laptop I had before.

> I loved the old client, I want it back as much I want my deceased mother come back to life, I really loved that program.

Holy crap, that is quite a claim!

That's... a disturbingly strong statement! I'm sorry for your loss, and I really want to try this old client now.

I always hated the Spotify UI. Now if someone could clone Rdio now that its on its way out. Then I'd be interested.

Yeah, Spotify and Tidal have terrible Uis. I'm testing deezer now and I find it a lot better.

I've been waiting to try Deezer here in the US forever. Its still not available here. Which sort of blows my mind at this point with all of the competition here. Now that Rdio is ending. I may just do the trial via a VPN just to test it out.

At the moment I have been using Tidal on a trial and I just keep finding so many small features I miss from Rdio. The only thing I like about Tidal is the Lossless option.

The lossless option is nice but to be honest I had a lot of streaming issues with Tidal. For example, if I paused a track and walked away for 10 minutes and resumed it would hang and wouldn't pick the stream back up. I had to restart the track from the beginning (this is using the desktop app).

I'm in Canada so I didn't realize Deezer wasn't available in the USA.

Yes, I have had those issues with Tidal as well. I was listening to an album the other day and it just sort of froze at the end of the track. Very odd.

As far as I know. Deezer is available almost everywhere except the US and Japan. I hope they figure it out soon. I"m glad to hear that you like it.

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