[mostlysimilar]

They've been actively destroying their UX for years now. I am so tired of them forcing their Podcasts and audio books and whatever else on me.

The one thing I want Spotify to do well is algorithmic discovery. The Discover Weekly playlist is the only thing that keeps me on the service, and yet they make it more and more difficult to find. The position on the home screen is entirely random and unpredictable. The only reliable way to find it is by using the search feature.

[transcriptase]

I saw they had audiobooks, then stumbled around trying to just get a comprehensive list of what they had versus their weird “picks” from categories that don’t seem to exist.

Then I finally found something and saw that not only was it not included in my subscription, but the cost was higher than buying the hardcover on Amazon.

[scjosh]

discover weekly is also my favorite, and i was having the same problem with it hopping around. to avoid needing to search for it, you can save it to your library to make it easily findable next to your other playlists. it’ll still auto-update weekly.

[Varqu]

To be honest, I find their music recommendation algo still way behind what Pandora (the music streaming, not the jewelry brand) cracked years ago.

It amazed me with the fact that even after creating a radio from a single song, I got exactly what I wanted to hear (including new songs).

It's a shame that it's not available in Europe.

[jeffwask]

To be fair, I use Spotify mostly for podcasts and it's UX and search for Podcasts is also terrible.

[antifa]

Discover Weekly has this weird annoying behavior where the shuffle button disappears on that playlist, so I have to leave DW to any song anywhere else, turn off shuffle, then come back. DW doesn't need shuffle on, the playlist order is already random!

[90-00-09]

I left Spotify after over a decade of daily usage several months ago. For all the reasons you have listed.