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Ask HN: Which music app/platform do you use that has a better UX than Spotify?

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The Spotify UX (on Android) has always bugged me, allowed actions are inconsistent (you cant long press "recent search results"), adding/managing playlists takes a ton of clicks and all actions besides queuing require a long press (and usually some more clicks after that).

Searching, queueing and adding a song to your favourites are in my opinion the most important actions in a music app (besides the player), and for that they seem incredibly cumbersome (not just in Spotify).

Which music app/platform/player do you use that you think works better than Spotify?

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Man, I have bounced around between music players and have more or less settled for Youtube Music. The desktop Chrome applet-player-thing is somewhat decent as well.

All of them have some sort of bonkers UX choice somewhere that you have to put up with and unless you go back to buying all of your music and taking it offline, you just pick your poison.

I use Soundcloud in addition to Spotify because Soundcloud connects with rekordbox. I’m not sure about queueing, but it has more music on it from less well known artists, and you can also upload your own. I think it just makes music a more interactive process.

I wrote my own because I don't want to stream access to media I already posses through the internet and I don't want to be limited by arbitrary stupidity Apple imposes to prop up streaming media or its app store.

have you published it?

https://github.com/prettydiff/mp3-master-list

I wrote this only for myself and have showed it nobody before, so its poorly documented. Its not ugly, but its not pretty either. Its pretty minimal and dumb enough for children to figure out.

I use it to play my music, movies, and television shows in the browser as a playlist on both mobile and desktop. The source content comes from a media server on the local network. Here is an example: https://github.com/prettydiff/mp3-master-list/blob/master/li...

It creates a media player in the page as well as a playlist of all media. Sorting and filtering of the playlist is provided via JS controls. All MP3 files are supported in all browsers. Most MP4 video files are playable in all browsers as determined by the video codec. MKV video files are playable in Chrome, as determined by the video codec, when provided the mime type video/mp4.

Google's Music app (not Youtube Music, which is what it turned into) was mostly fine. The UI was predictable, being able to upload your music was great.

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