Spotify to trim 6% of workforce, content head to depart

Re:Spotify to trim 6% of workforce, content head to depart by fleddr on Monday January 23, 2023 @09:48AM (#34489362)

Not even episode syncing works (for me). I clearly finished watching an episode yet regularly on another device the next episode would be the one I already watched. Just one of many basic things that doesn't work.

I forgot to add that not only will they change "currently playing" every 3 secs, also the cover art of each series changes, as an A/B test. So if you use that as a visual confirmation, well tough luck.

In the case of Netflix, there's a reason for all of this. They don't really want you to go and sniff around the catalog in easy ways. You might discover its not great. Best to throw a bunch of random stuff in your face to give you the illusion of a fabulously rich and "dynamic" experience.

The distraction UX of Netflix is intentional. In the case of Spotify it's mostly incompetence.

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Re:Spotify to trim 6% of workforce, content head to depart by dataexporter on Monday January 23, 2023 @10:03PM (#34498609)

Agree about the syncing - its not just you. I click on "Continue Watching" for a TV series that I have been watching - only to realize about a minute or so into it that I had already seen the episode the previous day. This has happened to me so many times that I would have wasted close to an hour just moving back and forth between episodes.

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Re:Spotify to trim 6% of workforce, content head to depart by fleddr on Tuesday January 24, 2023 @06:26PM (#34512119)

Exact same experience here. I even let episodes roll past the credits to the absolute end. And it still doesn't work.

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