[iambateman]

The first time I used daily mixes I was blown away by how perfect it was.

I use Spotify as much as conceivably possible (~20 hours per week) and haven't heard a peep of discontent from anybody. Totally agree - Spotify is incredible.

[SomeCollegeBro]

Yeah, I agree. The criticism above is definitely from an engineers perspective. The vast majority of users really won't even notice most of the items on that list. Reminds me of the episode of Silicon Valley where engineers absolutely love their product, but everyone else hates it because of the terrible UX.

[fragmede]

Three things stick out on that list as things non-engineers care about.

Lyrics; people listen to music and then enjoy singing along. This little thing called karaoke supports a whole industry, for engineers and non-engineers alike, so people can get together and sing songs.

Redesigning the client. New interfaces are scary and different for non-engineers.

Can't add third party songs to cloud library. Non-engineers understand that some licensing nonsense means they can't get Taylor Swift on their Spotify, and then... just don't use Spotify, because all their music is on the Apple.

I'm not including "native client to bundled browser" as something non-engineers care about, but people do ask "why does the new version of $program make my laptop fans get all loud?"

[AlwaysRock]

Really? What genre of music do you listen to mostly? I enjoy hip hop / rap style music and the discover mixes are generally pretty awful. They seem to just throw in a bunch of popular radio hits and some b grade tracks from smaller artists. I've been really disappointed because people always talk about how great the discover feature is.

I have much better results playing a full album on youtube and letting youtubes auto play feature pick the next album for me. I've discovered a half dozen artists that way on the last year.

[gcburn2]

YMMV

My daily mixes never flow correctly. I'll have a softer, technical indie track followed by a technical heavy metal song. It's bad enough that I can't use them at all.

My friends and I average over 20 hours a week as well and we're all pissed about their recent decisions. The removal of messaging/direct sharing was the final straw for me.

[SnowingXIV]

Wait. They removed this feature? I unsubscribed over a year ago but this was one of the biggest things I missed after no longer having Spotify. What is the idea behind removing features? I do remember lyrics being removed and that was awful too.

[skinnymuch]

I'm not sure if I use daily mixes but after years of being a Spotify user I recently Started using some of their curated playlists for me. And am also blown away by how many new bands I'm being exposed to that seem good. Once I started telling friends about my curated playlist experiences they were mostly like yeah we know. So seems to be a feature that's widely liked.