The most irritating aspect of this are "feeds". God, I hate feeds. Especially the wishy-washy clever ones.
The only feeds I still use are Twitter and Spotify. The former is cancer and it's contents better be fleeting. But why on earth can't Spotify be predictable? It's start page is essentially useless. And despite all the clever people bing thrown at the problem, the Release Friday playlist is nowhere to be seen on Fridays. This can't be this hard.
Spotify's whole UX is a disaster, and it's puzzling to me why that's the case. They certainly have the resources and the high profile to attract people who can fix it. I guess they just don't feel the need.
Try using 2005-era iTunes. Dense interface, everything like a table, clear UX patterns for clicking an album and then listing the songs in that album, no suggestions or lengthening your curated playlist without asking you, no animations or fancy graphics. Ok, it used to crash a lot but that's an orthogonal problem.
Unpopular opinion: "Design" is ruining everything that was good. Most suggestions for good "UX/UI" on HackerNews are shit. So are all the articles posted here and advice given. Most UI frameworks suck. The whole thing is rotten to the core.
Yeah I've never been an Apple fan, but I used to run iTunes on windows because it was fucking great. Then they added the album view stuff and performance degraded and it became unstable.
I use Foobar now and sure Foobar takes a bit of power user level stuff to get it configured exactly how I like but it is a nice tabular music library I can search and then click on stuff to play. No bs fancy crap screwing it up
I'm not a Spotify user but the news that came out about albums being played with shuffle as default makes me think they don't care about music. Not surprised if everything else is misaligned as well.
There are other issues. The random/shuffle has never worked properly. Why can't a billion dollar company figure out that they just played the same song for me a half hour ago? It is so bad we are drifting away from Spotify after subbing for ten years.
The only feeds I still use are Twitter and Spotify. The former is cancer and it's contents better be fleeting. But why on earth can't Spotify be predictable? It's start page is essentially useless. And despite all the clever people bing thrown at the problem, the Release Friday playlist is nowhere to be seen on Fridays. This can't be this hard.