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Tidal’s subscription is getting simpler and cheaper — yes, you read that right (www.theverge.com)

submitted 9 months ago by [email protected] to c/technology

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[–] tigerjerusalem 31 points 9 months ago (1 children)

I like Tidal because its interface isn't downright crap. What Spotify did to playlists and to the heart/cross button is so damn annoying.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 9 months ago (1 children)

I love the change. I have many playlists and it has made my life so much easier organising everything.

[–] tigerjerusalem 13 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (2 children)

How does it work better for you? To me it's annoying, I cannot easily move folders around anymore, nor move playlists into folders if I'm not using the desktop app.

Also, the + (former ♥️ button) is the worst offender to me. I used to use the button to add a music to my big "liked" default list, the one that is more permanent, and the three dots to add it to a playlist, which are more fluid. So playlists come and go, and not every song on a playlist is the one i want on my definitive pool of "always wanted" songs.

Then someone at Spotify decided to say "fuck you users", and merged the + and three dots, making it harder to know if a song is already in my main "liked" list.

Say I have a playlist I created, the + button is now a ✅ button. It tells me the song is saved somewhere. I have to tap it to see where, which 1. is completely unintuitive, because tapping a check button would create me the expectation of uncheking it, but it instead shows me a list of playlists! What in the freaking hell? This is decades of UI convention thrown out the windows for a really bad concept.

And 2, being checked doesn't mean it's my favorite song, just that it is saved on some playlist. It's a mistery, which is only solved by tapping the schizophrenic +/✅ button, instead of simply saying to me "yep, you liked this song".

So... Yeah. I hate Spotify.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 9 months ago (2 children)

I love it because I never use liked songs (I don't understand how people do, using the same playlist forever. Do your tastes never change? Idk each to their own).

So it means 1: I can easily add songs to multiple playlists at once. I have 4 different playlists that I listen to, and sometimes a song fits all 4, and it used to take 12 taps to add it to all 4 (tap dots, tap add, tap playlist, 4 times). Now it only takes 6.

2: I can now see if the song is already in a playlist. Before the only way was to try adding it to the playlist and see if it warned me of a duplicate.

3: Now I can see at a glance if it's added to a playlist. If it's added to 1 playlist then it's probably added to all the playlists it needs to be.

And you can still add songs to your liked songs in 1 tap. I feel like the reason most people dont like it is because it's a change that they aren't used to.

But really, the ideal solution would've been if Spotify just added a settings option to change it back to the old way. But Spotify seems to be vehemently opposed to options.

Also, what's way worse than the new like button is the stupid "smart shuffle". I just want to turn off shuffle, but now I have to press it again. And it's also really buggy, it will often display shuffle as off when it's really on smart shuffle, so I get unpleasantly surprised with some random song I've never heard. I really wish there were third party apps for Spotify, cause the Spotify app kinda sucks

[–] [email protected] 4 points 9 months ago

I use liked songs exclusively. I mostly use shuffle but I also unlike and like songs that I rediscover in my enormous (≈5000 songs) liked list so the songs end up at the top.

So the songs at the top are the songs that I am listening to currently. If I want something I haven't heard in a while I just scroll down or use (the suboptimal) shuffle.

Unliking and liking used to be two clicks but now It's 4 or 6 depending on the song and if it's in another playlist or not.

I can't understand why they couldn't just add two buttons. Modern devices have plenty of screen real estate.

When they tried this last time people got outraged any they rolled back the change. Now Spotify is going ahead anyways.

[–] tigerjerusalem 3 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Funny how it is, the smart shuffle is something I actually like because, when I'm in the mood, it brings something new to the table.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago

Yeah I just wish there was a toggle.

Also didn't they have a thing like smart shuffle before, it was just called radio. But they seem to have removed it and replaced it with smart shuffle for playlists. I can only see the radio option for albums. That was better, because then it only did it when I wanted it.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

Also what is the change to playlists? I wasn't aware Spotify had folders. Did they remove them?

Edit: Nevermind they're still there. What did they change?