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by notkaiho 2241 days ago
Spotify. The Mac desktop app often stops being able to play songs until you can restart the app, an issue they've been aware of for months if not a year. The catalogue is an absolute mess and there's no way to report metadata issues, or transparency about which editions records are based on.

But it syncs nicely with my phone, lets me download songs for listening on planes, and has decent little features like discovery playlists.

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I have an issue with the android app will it will randomly show as offline. This is a pain in the ass when I'm using my phone to play stuff on my desktop, pick a new song and it plays from my phone. The only way to fix it seems to restart the app and / or wait a little while
I haven't had that exact problem.

On iOS and macOS, a new session from idling a long time often won't start playing the last track, saying it can't find it.

Another annoyance is when someone edits the playlists or licensing situation may have changed, and songs just drop out of existence, so you never really "own" anything and there's zero permanence.

It's better to have your own collection and use Spot, Last or Panda as discovery mechanisms.

The money involved in getting the level of breadth of music I listen to on any given week would be absolutely prohibitive compared to the monthly subscription fee.
I don't have that problem. :)
I listen to it in my car. There is bug after a while that songs keep interrupting exactly at second 00:10. And you have to restart everything, car included, to make it start working again.