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Comment by OtherShrezzing

3 days ago

Spotify takes 7 seconds from clicking on its icon to playing a song on a 2024 top-of-the-range MacBook Pro. Navigating through albums saved on your computer can take several seconds. Double clicking on a song creates a 1/4sec pause.

This is absolutely remarkable inefficiency considering the application's core functionality (media players) was perfected a quarter century ago.

And on RhythmBox, on a 2017 laptop it works instantaneously. These big monetized apps were a huge mistake.