Day Two with Spotify
After spending the day Friday using Spotify, I found a few things that leave me wanting. In fact, they leave me wanting to the point that I am considering canceling my account.
I must say that music quality is really, really good. The sound is crystal clear. Now, for the stuff I don’t like…
- There is no recommendation engine. I was trying out different music all day, and didn’t get any new things to try based on what I had put in my queue.
- The lack of integration with AirportExpress on Mac really bothers me. I know this is doable because PandoraJam does it. It should be there.
- When I went to ‘Top Lists’, I expected to see the top play lists ( highest rated, favorited, whatever ). It seems all that’s there is a list of tracks.
- I would have liked to see more ability to filter by genre. When you are in What’s New for instance, it would be nice to have some filters instead of just paging through it.
- I didn’t like the way they jumble the search results in sentence-form at the top of the screen. Really hard to read.
I am going to give it some time to grow on me. There is a reason why everyone raved about this service. Maybe I will feel the same after a few more days. Right now, though, I am not seeing it.
Anyone out there feel differently?