Spotify is one piece of software (out of many) that, in my experience, has degraded substantially in performance and usability over the last 2 years. It's gone from something I loved using to something I dread

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avdwrks 14 hours ago | parent | next [-]

I switched to Apple Music and haven't looked back. The UX isn't great, but the audio quality alone was worth the switch for me. It also actually shuffles your music instead of cycling through the same small subset of songs.

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steve_adams_86 14 hours ago | parent [-]

I use Apple Music too. I recently noticed it randomly playing videos, though. I can't hide the overlay despite the checkbox being unchecked for "keep video playback on top of all other windows". Apparently the only way to disable it is via Screen Time, by which you disable video as a content entirely. So weird.

I was talking to some coworkers in another room, came back to my desk and a song by Lotta and Doja Cat was playing and the video was like 3/4 of my screen. It was pretty NSFW. No idea why it played a video without me explicitly pressing play on it.

Long story short, Apple Music generally does the trick but stuff like this kind of kills me. Coworkers probably think I'm a pervert. Song wasn't great either.

I've thought about alternatives but I pay for Apple One and really don't want another subscription.

	▲	avdwrks 13 hours ago \| parent [-]
		Haven't had anything like that happen but can see the frustration... I think my biggest complaint is their CarPlay app. It's wicked buggy.

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steve_adams_86 14 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Has Spotify improved since 10 years ago? I know it has podcasts now, but... I don't know, it feels like it has only shifted uncomfortable for the longest time, and it worked as well as it needed to quite a long time ago. Whenever I revisit it, I have the sense that it didn't need to change, or shouldn't have.

I also have the sense that I'm not their target customer too, though. Maybe a lot of people here love what they're doing. They did reach 300MM premium subscribers, after all.

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devy 15 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

A lot has shared the same experience you described. Myself included.

	▲	ConorSheehan1 15 hours ago \| parent [-]
		Time to switch? I went from spotify to tidal and am very happy. This script basically ported everything for me for free. https://github.com/spotify2tidal/spotify_to_tidal