I have also only seen a couple JRE episodes since the Spotify takeover, but the UI is not my problem. My problem is Spotify trying to seize control of an open ecosystem.
I believe they said UX. to me, Spotify has always been an example of good UI, but not so for its UX
Spotify used to have this great thing where if you long-pressed a song, it’d play ~15s from the main hook. it was amazing for quickly getting the sense of a playlist or recognising a song, but they removed it because not enough people used it.
and there’s the big one everyone talks about: Radio. Spotify radio used to be fantastic. in goes a song and out comes exciting new songs, with a few you know sprinkled in. for a lot of people I know, this was why they chose spotify over anything else
then at some point the metrics will have shown that - shock! - people prefer songs they already know??? so now radio crams in as many songs you know as the genre will allow
of course the numbers show that people like what they’re already familiar with! but that’s not the point of a fucking radio
