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Re:Windows NT on 600MHz machine opens apps instantly. What h... by jimt1234 on Friday June 23, 2023 @12:27PM (#36449090)
Recently I re-discovered my old collection of mp3s. I copied them to my laptop and started listening (using VLC). It blew me away how pleasant the experience was, particularly the overall responsiveness, navigating from track-to-track, skipping around in a track, stuff like that. I never really noticed the delays from streaming services until they were gone.
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Re:Windows NT on 600MHz machine opens apps instantly. What h... by batiudrami on Friday June 23, 2023 @07:13PM (#36453512)
Spotify’s trick when it first launched is that search and playback was so fast it almost felt like you had all the music in the world on your hard drive.

Unfortunately I cannot think of a single thing that has gotten better about Spotify since I started using it, and a lot which has gotten worse.

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Re:Windows NT on 600MHz machine opens apps instantly. What h... by mwcampbell on Saturday June 24, 2023 @08:56AM (#36458320)
Depending on when you started using Spotify, accessibility might have gotten infinitely better. The original Windows app, with its custom GUI toolkit, was completely inaccessible with a screen reader. Then they re-did the UI using Chromium Embedded Framework.
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