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I'm leaving Spotify because their Android client is hot dogshit (sorry, not sorry).

They put the unfavorite button right next to the cast button AND in the drop-down shade. Why would I ever be trying to unfavorite a song from there? There's no confirmation to unlike a song. If you are so unfortunate to hit it, you will instantly lose that song, have no idea what it was or how to get it back. And even if you do, you will never be able to reorder your Liked songs.

This is beyond the INSANE REFRESHING behavior it has where it regularly shows you stuff for 5+ seconds only to yank everything and refresh the page with basically all new data as soon as you go to click something.

Truly, what the hell is wrong with these app developers and designers? I would love to watch one of them actually have to use the app. How is this the standard?

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Spotify's biggest issue for me has been their insistence on a terrible Desktop UI. It used to be that Spotify allowed you to resize column widths but they removed it ages ago. Like around 2013-2015. And it's a feature that's still missing, even with the popularity of widescreen monitors. Now, this is what I believe to be a fairly uncommon issue with music because the vast majority of music fits in the default columns. BUT this is a very annoying issue when it comes to classical music because the track name will sometimes get cut off.

I basically had to memorize how long each track was because I otherwise couldn't tell if I was about to click on "Piano Sonata No. 29 in B-Flat Major, Op. 106 "Hammerklavier": III. Adagio sostenuto" or "Piano Sonata No. 29 in B-Flat Major, Op. 106 "Hammerklavier": II. Scherzo"

If you select the track and start dragging it, like when addding it to a playlist, it will show the commplete title

Omggggggg you’re amazing!!! Not ideal but a great workaround, thank you!

I've used Spotify on both Android and iOS and agree, the Android client is terrible.

I cant tell you the number of times Spotify removed all of my songs and made me sit there and re-download them? This has never taken place on iOS so i dont get what gives?

The Like/Dislike feature on Android is exactly as you outlined, weird...

Oh YEAH! If you're on a plane, with a bunch of music downloaded. All the sudden you realize the Treble sounds dreadful. Oh right, Spotify changed the quality for downloads again. I'll just go ahead and update that for next time it's online.

Nope, purged all my downloaded music. That was a fun 10 hour flight. Completely thoughtless.

The iOS client has some weird offline behaviour, where you will often need to force it using airplane mode to trip whatever flag turns the whole client into offline-mode rather than it just... playing the song that it clearly has the data downloaded for without phoning home first or whatever it's doing on a weak connection.

Spotify iOS automatically plays as soon as the app is started. At least, it does when connected to bluetooth. No way to disable. That was reason enough for me to delete Spotify.

I use Apple Music which is marginally better but not great for anyone who like to rewind and hear passages of music again. It’s also difficult to stay on album view.

Both apps are total pants for classical music as well. Apple acquired a player in that field but I’ve yet to see any improvement to Apple Music on that front.

what issues do you have with rewinding? long press and drag will seek forward and back.

the classical issue is one i’ve heard a few times, i’ve heard from a few different places that apple has been doing a ton of work in integrating whatever tech they got from the primephonic buyout — i don’t know enough about classical, but classical lovers are rabid about how great primephonic was.

between the upcoming windows apple music player and the work they’ve been doing to integrate the primephonic stuff, i suspect apple has been playing the long game.

On Apple Music, I believe I need to be in Album View in order to drag the currently playing music’s timeline. Depending on the path I took to get the music playing, Album View may not be visible or simple to get to. If there’s another place other than Album View where I can rewind or fast forward, I’m not aware of it. I’ll need to explore that. In general, I take an album-oriented approach when listening.

If Apple is playing the long game and becomes classical music friendly, I’ll be happy.

This is my major complaint about Spotify. All of their clients have problems, not just android. And then they're constantly tweaking them, usually not for the better. It's a music player, it doesn't need to be complicated, just make it work and leave it alone.

But then how can a manager meet OKRs/KPIs and get promoted?

I moved to Deezer that let me tell that I hate a song or artist. The high bitrate is a plus.

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