Anyone using Spotify? What's your experience?
http://www.spotify.com/
They recently started providing service in the USA.
I signed up (free account) about an hour ago and so far, I'm
stupified over how bad their software is! I haven't used an app this
bad in a decade! At first I thought it was written in Java, but now
I'm thinking maybe it's actually crayon-on-napkin JavaScript?
Searching for an artist can take up to two minutes. Yea, two
minutes. Network idle. App just sitting there idle waiting for data
to come back from their service.
Sorting the resulting list can take up to 30 secs. You'd think I'd
asked Eudora to sort a mailbox with 32,000 entries in it. Nah. This
list just has 24 entries.
Resizing a column ... It doesn't keep up with the mouse cursor, then
when you let go, it SPODs for many seconds.
Every page has a black or dark gray background, and their font sizes
are so small they end up being gray instead of white text. Gray text
on a gray background ----- Unreadable. And there seems to be no way
to increase the font sizes or kill the backgrounds!
Tried the Help section... quite a few pages gave me 404s.
Guess I should say something nice about it... The music, once it
starts to play, sounds pretty good. No drop outs or anything. And
it's only using 8 to 10% of my CPU.
Oh, I get it. Spotify is an ad for iTunes!
- Dan.
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