Dear Spotify, Regarding UI & UX -from (me!) but not only (me!).. countless others
(me!): Thank You Love, for helping me get my spotify all set up and easy on my phone, and! commercial free! /hug, kiss..
Lord knows I had struggled for days.. speaking into my phone, 'open spotify dot com' -and it would! and there would be my playlist; -awesome
but then next day, 'open spotify dot com' -and an entirely different page shows up.. and i can't get to my playlist.. do you remember the popular saying from yesteryear 'insanity is doing the same thing over and over but expecting a different result'
-well, reverse that for our digital age. You can say the exact same thing but get an entirely different result. -frustrating! as all get out
anyway.. then i started trying being more specific 'open my playlist on spotify dot com' -and one day, "it worked!"
but the next day, the exact same words in the exact same order, -did not work.
that is when you have to call in your adult children, or grandchildren, if you have them
and my daughter came to my rescue. now i don't say anything into the microphone on my phone. there is an app; i click on it, -my spotify opens, i click on my playlist, and -this time of year,
i'll listen to Oh Holy Night, by Christine Aguilera too many times to count,
anyway,
my daughter also shared this very good news: with spotify, she could text me a link which would allow me to add her music playlist into my music library! -awesome again!
and so naturally, i said with a smile, -would you like to add my playlist to your music library?
um -No.
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which made us both laugh. and she did mention having a few 'mom grooves' in her mix.
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NOW, DEAR SPOTIFY: REGARDING YOUR UI & UX
I cannot for the life of me, figure out why.. why?! with all the technology you do have; all the talent; all the resources..
when my playlist ends, and spotify continues playing music it has chosen for me.. why can't i just immediately 'delete' a song I don't want to finish listening to; and know I never want to hear again?
why can i 'hide' a song, but not delete it? this is very odd; odd vocabulary choices..
the amount of clicking, i have to do to navigate to whatever screen it is "which screen is it?!?" that finally gets me to the page, where i can search... search.. and then press three dots.. and then scroll, and then eventually delete a song..
and if you google.. you can see this is a shared/common frustration for countless spotify subscribers. -why is it being ignored? [all i want for Christmas is, on this same menu, the option to stop a song in in its tracks and remove it from my account... is this a gigantic ask?]
i.e., like this:
so, -your UX could use a UP -DATE. /and here i thank my son for updating my own vocabulary with UI & UX.. and then, his recommendation to watch the abstract of design/ian spalter episode on netflix, which helped serve as overlap learning..
"Thank You!" -back to my mom grooves & Christmas wrapping amen.
posted by SANDRA HARRISON KAY @ 1:36 PM
1 Comments:
and so, from limited reading... currently, you can't delete a song from your Playlist without simultanepusly deleting the song from the spotify cloud library. I am nothing if not a free consultant, so may I recommend: a box you can check which says This song is not my taste. and it automatically stops the song and removes it from potential selection in your individual Playlist.
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