The Apps directory is full of *.spa files. (Windows users can find it at %APPDATA%/Spotify/) This setup can't be good for memory usage, but it rocks for development!įor anyone who's curious, it's easy to take a look under the hood from the Spotify installation folder. I can't even imagine how nice things must be when you have the real source, automatic live-reload, and don't have to muck around with concatenated or minified JS/css/handlebars files. While I'm appalled by some of the recent changes Spotify has made, I'm really impressed by how easy it is to work on their desktop client. What is going on over there? I have also noticed that the app can play a song quickly, but browsing and searching is incredibly slow (even on a fast connection). High startup times, incredible amounts of frame rate lag and removal of the system tray icon. I don't know who is leading the UX squad over at Spotify, but the app needs considerable work. As a Spotify Premium user, I love the service, but the interface as many others have pointed out has really gone downhill. Breaking out and working with another squad I think could be beneficial to Spotify. You stop learning from those around you, eventually the hive-mind becomes one and there is little free-thinking. I think it is important that people occasionally break out of their cliques and work with new people, I have found based on personal experience that working with the same people day-in-day-out will eventually give you tunnel vision. I really like the approach that Spotify take to working on new features, the squads idea is quite good. You don't need to fix the battery drainage, just give me an option to turn the feature off.
It prevents my Android phone from entering deep sleep, and thus it is a battery drain. Oh, another one, please give us an option to turn off 'Spotify Connect'. * Apps were removed (tbh, I can live with this)
Check your forums, tens if not hundreds of people already left because of this. Because your algorithm is really broken and severely compresses the music, removing any dynamic range, this is the biggest showstopper for me. * The option to turn off your 'volume normalisation' was removed. * Creating a new playlist in a folder was removed (you now have to create and move the playlist) * Searching in local files was removed (and the local file support has always been crap anyway, please work together with Last.fm to properly match files) Just some examples, in case someone from Spotify in a position to fix this is reading this: Apart from the general slugginess of the app, the number of features that have been removed over the last couple of months is staggering. Nice technical read, but to be honest, the moment I find another app that does what I need I will gladly leave Spotify behind.