Comment by jimt1234
3 years ago
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.
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.
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.