Is this why my wife is constantly complaining that her playlists constantly keep playing the same songs over and over?
Fuck yeah, it is.
My favourite example of Spotify being shit is:
I want to play an album, so I go to it and press play. Then a bit later I want to queue a second album after the first one is done. How do I do that? As far as I can tell the answer is to go fuck myself. I have start a new queue or playlist with both albums in it.
That’s apart from all the basic software quality stuff like randomly restarting the queue.
Edit: so now I use finamp with jellyfin, which I can actually fix when it does something I hate.
Have you fixed anything when it’s done something you’ve hated? I sometimes think, “I can fix this” and the I let my workarounds last for years. Like a leaky faucet where I fix it by rotating the handle not to 180° but to like 185.
Yeah, I try to make a point of using free software and contributing where I can. It does have to rise to a certain threshold of annoyance though.
There is zero chance this is true.
If I was working foe spotify I would honestly lie just to do something better than ask an AI to do bullshit for me
I’m not so sure. I could believe their entire productivity has been consumed by failing AI slop in code reviews.
Spotify’s best dev reporting for stand-up
Promotes ICE and uses AI. What a company of assholes.
That explains how Anna’s Archives got in
I was so excited to get my grubby hands on that music only to later learn it was hundreds of terabytes…
You were expecting to be able to burn out all the music in the world (yes, hyperbolic, shut up) on a couple DVDs?
We can tell
Do you know what we call someone that doesn’t write a single line of code?
Anything other than a “developer”.
Has Spotify had any new code written?
Hm. A new way to tell something is shit without actually using these words
That’s why it keeps telling me I’m offline while having an active WiFi and 5G connection of which both work and no other apps have any issues with the internet.
For me it started crashing when I open an instance on another device
This sounds like such a fucking nightmare. I got into software because I like writing code. Their job is now the equivalent of a full time PR reviewer.
PR reviewer but the dev was drunk, sometimes is a genius, sometimes is eating sand, doesn’t follow guidelines, likes to duplicate code, and forgets what was in the original task description after a while.
And even if you babysit it and carefully tell it all the mistakes, it will learn nothing and suggest the same stupid mistakes next tim. I did actually know a human just like AI and he kept his job for years before quitting to grift another company because management refused to believe he sucked. So I’m not optimistic about AI screwing up discouraging business leaders.
Bullshit
It’s quite possible they already fired their best developers
Look at the feature list bragged about. It’s really simple stuff. I can absolutely believe they vibe coded that stuff.
The “hardest” one was to feed listener history to an LLM and have it generate a playlist based on the titles. That’s such an absurdly trivial thing to do.
It’s not rocket science. It’s a trivial streaming music player.
Glad i moved away from Spotify a year ago. Happy to ve using Qobuz and bandcamp
Even if you don’t subscribe to Qobizz their magazine helps me find new music all the time
How many lines of code have they had to fix thanks to AI?
That’s a problem for the future team, not the current bosses who will give themselves golden parachutes.
Always the fucking suits.
