My main grief as as a very long Spotify customer, their app is still bad and doesn't progress. It has often problems when the [edit] phone is offline e.g.
and it doesn't work beyond songs - radio play, audiobooks especially in playlists are PITA.
Spotify has about 10,000 employees. Their software engineers make 6 figures. Their only actual product is, as far as I know, a music player.
Despite all this, I had an issue for a while where some of the play buttons didn't work. I would click the play button and nothing would happen. Other users posted about the same issue in the "Spotify Support/Complaint Megathread" on Reddit's r/spotify.
I don't know how to adequately describe how ridiculous it is that they managed to break their music player's play button, of all things.
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It’s just absolutely dreadful. Using it on desktop is a laggy mess. I mean this quite literally what do the 10,000 people do?
It wasn't always like this. When Spotify was launched the desktop app was one of the best pieces of software I'd ever used. It launched quickly and songs played without buffering which was unheard of at the time. It was the work of largely one developer, Ludvig Strigeus who was also the author of the original uTorrent client (which was also used to be fantastic). As a software developer I'm biased but I think this ultra smooth experience was a large contributor to Spotify's initial growth.
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Come up with features no one asked for to justify their salaries. Seems to be rather common in product-driven tech businesses.
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Spam me with pop ups tell me what I should be listening too.
Jazz, apparently.
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