Comment by kuu
5 years ago
I'm on the same boat: finding a song now requires too many clicks. Albums make sense in a physical world, but not in the virtual one.
5 years ago
I'm on the same boat: finding a song now requires too many clicks. Albums make sense in a physical world, but not in the virtual one.
An album is (ideally) carefully crafted to work as a coherent musical statement. Tracks in isolation don't have the same effect. It's even more so in classical music, where a work usually encompasses multiple tracks. One of my frustrations with Spotify is that it doesn't understand multi-movement works, so you get an single movement — sometimes even one that is connected to the preceding or following one — in isolation, and it's often really unsatisfying.
tl;dr I think albums have more significance than you do.
Let the user be the one choosing how to use the music.
I think Spotify (at least for me and I think for many others) is great because of lists: I'm the one choosing what and when to listen the songs, and I'm able to group them. I have lists made out of albums where I respect the order that you mention, with the same implications. But some other lists I have hours of songs that don't fit under the concept of album.
I agree and understand your point, but I think in the past Spotify's UI had both options: the songs were sorted by album, but also allowed me to access all of them and cherry-pick the ones I wanted easily from that same view.
But none of that matters because most artists only upload a small number of songs from each album anyways.
Not sure how it works now, but back with GPM, you could get access to all the songs by purchasing the album on Google play. Some tracks just can't be played unless you pay for them.