Comments on: Spotify

By: Gordon

Gordon — Fri, 23 Sep 2011 16:57:03 +0000

I think these are fair comments, except for one crucial point: you’re complaining about a free service. Pay and all ads disappear.

By: Josh

Josh — Fri, 23 Sep 2011 16:55:24 +0000

The most aggravating thing about spotify (what caused me to delete it) is the ads. They’re not normal ads. They knowingly put the ads where the up and down arrows to scroll through the songs are. Meaning: after a few multiple clicks in a row, Spotify recognizes it and throws an ad right there where you click and before you know it what you had on is something else.

Ads are to advertise product, not to just trick people into clicking it so Spotify gets the money for each and every click on that ad. Tricking users is not advertising. In fact, I purposely don’t buy or use products that advertise like that. It’s more of an annoyance and makes the entire program less exciting.

I’ll stick to youtube vids in the background or the radio on.

On a scale from 1-10, I’ll give Spotify a 3 for effort.

PS – Not to mention, a lot of well known artists and albums are not here. All or nothing is the way I see it.

ALSO – Spotify adjusts the controls of your computer by not letting you control the computer volume with the hot keys on the keyboard while you are in the Spotify program. They do this because if you turn down the volume on Spotify with the mouse it PAUSES THE ADVERTISEMENT!?!?!?!? That is ridiculous.

By: Gordon

Gordon — Thu, 23 Apr 2009 12:52:13 +0000

I’m sorry John, I couldn’t disagree more. While I have had no issue with the Spotify forums myself that is entirely separate from the product itself and Spotify is an industry changing development.

By comparison YouTube probably has the most bullheaded, ignorant and often downright offensive comments section on the Internet but that doesn’t make its service any less useful.

By: John

John — Wed, 15 Apr 2009 14:53:51 +0000

The spoitfy support forum is just over run with Trolls, and it has zero moderation and is a complete waste of time, not unlike spotify itself!

By: Gordon

Gordon — Sun, 15 Mar 2009 20:45:00 +0000

Thanks for the tips guys, really helpful. I’ll update the list removing that

By: Afront

Afront — Wed, 11 Mar 2009 23:33:52 +0000

Hi Gordon, nice review, I agree with some of your “bad points” but note that:

- Spotify Super Search (http://sss.pansentient.com/) gives full genre search

- http://www.listdj.se/ claims to add lyrics to Spotify songs

Both of these are “external solutions” but perhaps this might help towards a more open policy.

Cheers!

By: Filip Hnizdo

Filip Hnizdo — Wed, 11 Mar 2009 20:12:48 +0000

just search genre:techno etc for genre searches.