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[–] NeptuneOrbit@lemmy.world 190 points 6 months ago (2 children)

The bad Ai dj. The car thing they rolled back. The new logo that's the same as the old one, but now border. The cache that causes you to hear the same ten songs multiple times in a week.

[–] noodlejetski@lemm.ee 119 points 6 months ago (2 children)

the playlist saved for offline playback that will still try to connect to the internet for like 30 seconds when you open it while actually offline. the Discover Weekly playlist that will serve you the song that you've marked as "not interested" over and over and over and

[–] serpineslair@lemmy.world 62 points 6 months ago (2 children)

The UI that gets progressively worse with each update, ruining what was perfectly fine before. The attempts to create the audio focused equivalent of TikTok.

[–] Sanctus@lemmy.world 43 points 6 months ago (2 children)

The way shuffle constantly shuts itself off even when set within the settings to be the default. The shitty Smart Shuffle that adds in songs that break up my playlists terribly. The way it plays the same song again the first time you enable shuffle and hit next.

[–] jojo@lemmy.blahaj.zone 13 points 6 months ago

Yall are noting not even the reason why I went to Apple Music: no ability to actually consistently sync an offline library across devices, your own files.

[–] Mycroft@lemm.ee 2 points 6 months ago (1 children)

The "repeat" option that activates itself is probably the most frustrating bug. I can't recall the last time I legitimately wanted to listen to a song on repeat but it enable itself very often.

If I could simply remove the feature I would.

[–] intensely_human@lemm.ee 1 points 6 months ago

That’s never happened to me

[–] BakerBagel@midwest.social 13 points 6 months ago (1 children)

I use Tidal and get annoyed because the shuffle clearly has a recency bias to it, and it keeps trying to recommend show tunes to me in my Daily Discovery, and the suggested albums for me has become considerably worse since the last update, but everything i hear about what Spotify has been doing has made me glad i switched over a couple years ago.

[–] Dagnet@lemmy.world 4 points 6 months ago (3 children)

How good is tidal? Is its catalogue as good as Spotify?

[–] Palerider@feddit.uk 6 points 6 months ago

I've recently switched from Spotify to Tidal and I'm happy with it...

[–] can@sh.itjust.works 5 points 6 months ago

Yeah, get a trial and see though.

[–] UltraMagnus0001@lemmy.world 2 points 6 months ago

Tidal does have higher bitrate songs, also atmos and sony's 360 audio and when done right the spacial audio sounds nice. Amazon music is decent too and it comes with prime.

[–] b3an@lemmy.world 29 points 6 months ago (1 children)

The cache part pisses me off. I'm fucking paying you to stream me music. Not the same fucking shit over and over and over again.

[–] doctordevice@lemmy.ca 14 points 6 months ago (1 children)

I really don't get it. Users have been begging for a true random shuffle for years. It's not a hard thing to implement.

[–] GissaMittJobb@lemmy.ml 3 points 6 months ago (3 children)

True random shuffle would be a terrible idea. No one wants the same track showing up multiple times in a row, which would not be uncommon in true random shuffle.

[–] Pelicanen@sopuli.xyz 16 points 6 months ago (1 children)

I think the idea is that the play order for the entire playlist is shuffled on each loop, so you play all songs in one order, then it shuffles, and you play all songs again but in a different order.

[–] shaman1093@lemmy.ml 2 points 6 months ago

^this - why is it so hard to implement sigh

[–] doctordevice@lemmy.ca 8 points 6 months ago

I disagree that that's what it means, IMO "shuffle" explicitly means each track exactly once. Pedantry aside, what I meant was a truly randomized order when you shuffle a playlist. It's a major critique of Spotify among users and has been for a very long time.

[–] intensely_human@lemm.ee 1 points 6 months ago (2 children)

You can make a truly random shuffle that doesn’t do that in like five pibes of code. This is the most pointless objection to random shuffle that I’ve ever seen.

[–] intensely_human@lemm.ee 2 points 6 months ago

Lines of code. Lines. Not pibes.

In unrelated news, I hate autocorrect. Pibes is not a fucking word.

[–] GissaMittJobb@lemmy.ml 1 points 6 months ago

I mean, not really. This is actually a non-trivial topic, and true random is a really bad label for what someone actually wants out of a shuffling algorithm.

See the following engineering blog post on the subject: https://engineering.atspotify.com/2014/02/how-to-shuffle-songs/