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I'm going to give Apple Music a serious try. I've been using Spotify since the very beginning, but I find that music discovery and UX in Spotify are a mess, and for some reason I end listening the same music all the time. I've got the feeling that Apple is going to get discovery right. Time will tell.

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I hope so too. I, too, have been a paying Spotify user for a long time and it just drives me crazy. I tried Rdio too but wasn't a fan. All music catalogs being equal, the bar is set pretty low at the moment. I really want to like Spotify too, because they seem like they're trying hard, but the UI and UX just feel terrible to me.

I've used Spotify since 2008. The recent UI change really ruining the experience. I believe they are using Chromium now.

Spotify uses 1GB of ram, and every 10 seconds the CPU usage spikes to max. The UI is so unresponsive, Firefox is more responsive while restoring a session of 100 tabs.

I no longer pay for Spotify. The free version is litterd with malware ads, on par with SourceForge.

They've also remvoed 70% of it's original features.

The UX of Spotify has been regressing since 2011.

I have never used Spotify but am I right that a music streaming app uses 1GB of RAM and spikes the CPU???????

I thought iTunes and RealPlayer were bad but this is incomprehensible.

After downgrading to version 0.9.7.x, all UI/UX problems I had are gone. I'm pretty satisfied with their old client.

I've been thinking, that services like spotify could give users way to script their own music discovery. Fiddle with different properties to discover random music or very specific genres. Ability to exclude popular artists, etc.

I use Google Play music and have found the discovery algorithms to be astonishingly good. My music taste is very specific and covers only two or three genres, and within those genres I get suggestions that I love perhaps 90% of the time.

Why do you think the software is to blame for your decision to listen to the same music all the time?

Blame is an irrelevant concept here. Spotify isn't making them happy, so they are going to try something else.

case and point

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