- Reliability: Spotify’s IOS and Mac apps regularly refuse to play and require killing and restarting. If you’re in the car, several times. Similar issues with bluetooth speakers. When browser or Youtube app happily play, Spotify struggles.
- Improved UX: Still can’t filter for unheard episodes of a podcast. Not sure why the repeat button has no tooltip and has to be so cryptic. One tap repeats the (imaginary?) playlist and 2 taps repeats the song? Who knows? Why can’t I see a stream of the songs I played so I can easily find what I recently played and play it again? No, recently played albums/radios don’t help. How do I search for business podcasts that aren’t from my country? Why does the shuffle of an album start playing random other artists? Well, actually I know, those artists are cheaper to play.
- Proper Listings: Bo Burnham’s Make Happy isn’t a podcast and those are not 3 minute long podcast episodes. Hitting next must go to the next track and start from the beginning, NOT from minute 4.
It’s unbelievable that in the last 10 years the only positive change was the podcast UI and addition of podcasts with videos etc. At the expense of app reliability. And how hard is it to allow me to find business podcasts from US? (Yes, I am hung up on it after Google decided to kill the Podcasts app) Or at least sort by globally most listened?
Actually, happy with the car thing dying. Maybe they will pull the super obstructive car UI from the app. It comes back from time to time even though it’s turned off and it’s a major safety risk, despite trying the opposite.
It's so ridiculous we can't see a history of songs played. I've been complaining about Spotify's lack of UX improvement for years.
Managing or finding playlists on mobile is a nightmare. There's no organization or folders on mobile (despite being on desktop). Searches are always sluggish, even when searching downloaded songs or playlists.
While the UI is not my favorite, I can see a history of my songs played. On android, click on home, click your avatar (top left). A menu should slide out with "Listening history" in it.
- Improved UX: Still can’t filter for unheard episodes of a podcast. Not sure why the repeat button has no tooltip and has to be so cryptic. One tap repeats the (imaginary?) playlist and 2 taps repeats the song? Who knows? Why can’t I see a stream of the songs I played so I can easily find what I recently played and play it again? No, recently played albums/radios don’t help. How do I search for business podcasts that aren’t from my country? Why does the shuffle of an album start playing random other artists? Well, actually I know, those artists are cheaper to play.
- Proper Listings: Bo Burnham’s Make Happy isn’t a podcast and those are not 3 minute long podcast episodes. Hitting next must go to the next track and start from the beginning, NOT from minute 4.
It’s unbelievable that in the last 10 years the only positive change was the podcast UI and addition of podcasts with videos etc. At the expense of app reliability. And how hard is it to allow me to find business podcasts from US? (Yes, I am hung up on it after Google decided to kill the Podcasts app) Or at least sort by globally most listened?
Actually, happy with the car thing dying. Maybe they will pull the super obstructive car UI from the app. It comes back from time to time even though it’s turned off and it’s a major safety risk, despite trying the opposite.