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by zer00eyz 816 days ago
I like Spotify.

It suffers a lot of the same problems that iTunes did...

Features dont fit in the UI so they all get "grafted" in.

If your on a playlist that isnt yours, there is not a good way to figure out the year the song is from (is it new, is this from the 60's ... ). Then its 3 clicks to get back to your current play list.

They need to figure out what the next 5 years of feature are and build a UI redesign that will support that + more.

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> If your on a playlist that isnt yours, there is not a good way to figure out the year the song is from (is it new, is this from the 60's ... ). Then its 3 clicks to get back to your current play list.

Right-click song, go to album, look at album year (2 clicks).

Click back button. (1 click)

I just went and looked, it's 2 clicks from the "current song playing" in the lower left. Click on the song NAME and it will take you to the album and then back to the playlist.

If you click on the album art it opens the "now playing" window. That has some credits but not the year of publication. (and is missing publisher, producer unless that's part of the "artist" info..)

Mind you if your looking at your play list, the album art and song title are not clickable, but the artist is? The album is listed in playlist and clickable. (so none of this behaves like current playing song in lower left though it looks the same).

What is the point of the now playing window? Big album art? Selling me stuff that I never scroll down to see?