Apps Getting Worse

Re:Apps Getting Worse by nickkell on Sunday August 08, 2021 @07:09PM (#28111054)

I was very sorry to notice Spotify getting worse and worse. It seems that now the app won’t display anything without an internet connection, or certain items that were downloaded don’t appear in the list. What’s the point of downloading songs for offline use if you can’t even navigate to them?

The desktop app is also getting worse. After a certain period of time clicking play simply has no effect, so it needs to be regularly restarted.

I don’t normally enjoy these pile-ons complaining about a product, but I have the feeling it’s coming apart at the seams

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Re:Apps Getting Worse by lentil_soup on Monday August 09, 2021 @06:18AM (#28114788)

> What’s the point of downloading songs for offline use if you can’t even navigate to them?

I've never understood that either. I have downloaded quite a few albums for offline listening throughout the years but now I have no way of removing them because there's no listing. From time to time I still stumble upon an album marked as downloaded so I get that one chance to remove it.

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Re:Apps Getting Worse by srgpqt on Monday August 09, 2021 @07:12PM (#28123472)

If you want to delete them all, just delete the entire app and reinstall?

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Re:Apps Getting Worse by surye on Monday August 09, 2021 @06:10PM (#28122948)

> What’s the point of downloading songs for offline use if you can’t even navigate to them?

So you can listen to them without consuming potentially expensive mobile data.

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Re:Apps Getting Worse by nickkell on Wednesday August 11, 2021 @11:24AM (#28143116)

I understand the point of the downloading media over wifi rather than mobile data. What I'm saying is that once I'm "offline" I can't navigate to a screen where I can click play on them

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