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Just curious - what has it ruined?

I use the free version, and while I noticed it is a bit different since a few weeks, didn't really notice anything that would bother me.

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They removed support for 3rd party apps. This devastated me as it was the best music discovery service I've found (KCRW Music Mine and Pitchfork in particular).

It also removed the 'search' (command + F) in the song list.

I could see them not wanting to support poorly created apps, but removing the last one boggles my mind.

At first I thought my spotify was strange, because I was trying to look in my playlist and a few minutes of searching today I discover they removed that feature in the new version and right now the only way to get it back is to download and old version, my questions is why did they have to remove this, and they have done this in other times.

edit: I am talking about the search in playlist (command + F)

The lack of command + F frustrates me roughly 15 times a day.

Few more that ticked me off other than what is already mentioned:

Removed ability to minimize to tray

Removed adjustable width of columns

Removed tons of settings like how much space to allow the client to cache

- Ability to specify WHERE to cache files. This matters, because I have drives for data on my workstations, and partitions for data that're reachable in an OS-agnostic way on my laptop. I doubt I'm the only one who wants to cache music on a drive other than the SSD system drive.

- The titlebar always says Spotify Premium (or Spotify Free). Because that's super useful to people.</s>

The autohotkey script that pops up when you google "spotify autohotkey" broke, and that pretty much prevented me from listening at work for a week. Very annoying to not have a quick way to stop my music when a coworker taps me on the shoulder.

Just buy a Mac - there's a play/pause button on the keyboard!

I noticed this too. It works if you map to the `Media_*` keys, e.g.

    F6::Media_Prev
    F7::Media_Play_Pause
    F8::Media_Next

I've since downgraded, but for the day where I was using the new version I had to switch to something more clunky:

  SetTitleMatchMode 2
  IfWinExist,Spotify Premium
  {
    WinActivate
    sleep, 100
    send, {space}
  }
  SetTitleMatchMode 1

And alt-tab may also help, but it sometimes brings up the wrong window.

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