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by qwerpy 162 days ago
Also, even for premium customers they will display ads (local concert tickets) and add sponsored albums/tracks to playlists and the home screen.
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This infuriates me. I launch the app to play music and am forced to interact with a pop-up promoting some random new release that is nowhere near the same universe as my music taste.

They recently did the annual “Wrapped” release. It took over the iOS Home Screen widget I use for playing/pausing recent playlists. The widget was unusable until you (1) watched the wrapped video in full on that device (didn’t matter that I had watched it on other devices before) and (2) you had to listen to the playlist they generated of your most played songs.

Still can't believe how bad the Spotify app is.

It keeps losing my downloaded podcasts. Takes forever to switch from online to offline mode. How hard could possibly be, just send a few packets if you get no answer you're offline.

It's really not that complicated yet they somehow managed to mess it up.

Yeah, I hate finding out when my favourite artists that I listen to on Spotify come to my city to play a show.