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by baoyu 2165 days ago
Spotify on Mac.

It’s Chromium-based, so, of course, it’s slow. Specifically, search is excruciatingly slow, removing an album from your library redraws the whole page, and—most frustratingly— as soon as you lose internet connection, your perfectly nice and readable page get replaced with “Artist pages are not available offline”. It’s a list of tracks and albums which is updated (at most, on average) several times a year, why require connection to continue showing it?

Not Mac-specific, but extremely weird: sometimes Release Radar playlist has tracks by wrong artists with the same name. I don’t think a recommendation model would use names instead of IDs, so it probably means that track was first ascribed to a wrong artist, and that’s... even worse?

1 comments

I think you have a problem with your Spotify installation. Maybe try removing it and re-installing it?

I use Spotify all the time on my 2016 normal-powered Macbook Pro and I don't experience any of your performance problems. Everything's lightning fast including search, and I've got 10,000's of tracks saved in 100's of playlists.