| > Spotify's user interface is so much better, i can't understand how anyone would prefer Apple Music. I've been very unimpressed with Spotify's iOS and iPadOS interface lately. I was OK with it for years when all I would do is either (1) tell it to play one of my playlists, or (2) find an album via search and tell it to play that. Lately, though, I've been using Spotify to listen to music during timed activities. I know I'm going to spend N minutes on the activity, and want to queue up N minutes of music. So before starting the activity I go through my playlists picking songs and queuing them, or thinking of other songs that I'm the mood for, searching for them, and queuing them, trying to queue a little over N minutes. Should be easy, right? From the song listing in a playlist or search, queue the song and keep a running total in my head of the times. Occasionally pop over to the queue view to check the total time. Nope. That doesn't work because the stupid thing does not show the song times in playlist listing, search listings, or any other kind of listing I've found. The only way I know to find the length of a song is to start playing it and then look at the playback display which shows time elapses and time remaining. Well, that's not quite true. You could also put the song by itself in a playlist, because it will show you the total length of a playlist. The partial workaround is to make a new playlist, add the songs to that instead of the queue so that I can at least see the total time, and then queue the whole playlist when I've got my N minutes in it. People have been asking for them to fix this for at least 5 years [1]. [1] https://community.spotify.com/t5/Closed-Ideas/Queue-length-i... |
1. https://www.idownloadblog.com/2014/08/07/how-to-set-timer-st...