Spotify Starts Testing New CarPlay Interface With Queue System

[Coolio1234]

how can we sign up for this beta?

 

[twistedpixel8]

The Spotify queue is very bad.

Let's say you're in the middle of listening to an album or a playlist, and you want to queue up a couple other songs to play that's over. Cool. So you hit "add to Queue" on those songs. Guess what? They're going to play NEXT. They're in a section called "Next in Queue". The album you were listening to? It's in a section AFTER Next in Queue, which is called "Next Up" -- the name of which is a lie because the "Next in Queue" stuff is going to play next. The only way to get those songs to play later on as you originally set out to do is to manually reorder things. The basic principle of a queue is that things get lined up one after another, but in Spotify anything you add to the queue effectively jumps in line ahead of everything else.

Apple Music has a simple pair of options for each thing you add to the queue, which are "play next" and "play later". They do precisely what they say. No idiotic subsections that don't make sense, just a list of what's playing next to which you can add tracks to the beginning or the end of the line.

I generally like Spotify and am happy with it, except this one thing, which is stupid and bad and whoever designed it should be drowned in a river.

Yeah ok I see your point. I’ve just got used to it like this and generally if I want to listen to a particular song amidst the current queue, I want it immediately next so it works for me. But I can see what you mean.

Didn’t they used to have a better system? I vaguely remember there being “add to queue” and “play next” which is essentially what you’ve said. Unless that was desktop only or something? Can’t quite remember.

 

[[AUT] Thomas]

Suck it Spotify. Pay for premium and get ads. But because it’s a podcast all is fine and it’s embedded in the podcast so the end.

How do you know it was Spotify that embedded the ad?
It's like saying you're paying for cable TV yet there are ads on TV...

 

[WRChris]

They allow ads to be embedded. I’ve gone through support with them is how know they don’t care. It’s more like I’m paying for ad free hulu and then the shows are embedding ads within to bypass the no ads policy.

The content creators are double dipping by getting revenue from streams and embedding their own ads. Spotify just allows it. Fire up a Joe Rogan podcast and I guarantee you will be hit with 15 minutes worth of ads. Seems like when I close the screen but leave the app running is when I get hit with the ads. 15 minutes worth of ads is insane.
If it weren’t for my wife liking the Spotify service I’d ditch it.

 

[MacAddict1978]

Suck it Spotify. Pay for premium and get ads. But because it’s a podcast all is fine and it’s embedded in the podcast so the end.

Which is like literally EVERY PODCAST on every platform. You can skip them.

It's not an "AD" for the hosting service when its literally part of the content you are listening to. That's like saying Netflix advertises no ads but shows your product placements in movies that they didn't make.

 

[MacAddict1978]

The Spotify queue is very bad.

Let's say you're in the middle of listening to an album or a playlist, and you want to queue up a couple other songs to play that's over. Cool. So you hit "add to Queue" on those songs. Guess what? They're going to play NEXT. They're in a section called "Next in Queue". The album you were listening to? It's in a section AFTER Next in Queue, which is called "Next Up" -- the name of which is a lie because the "Next in Queue" stuff is going to play next. The only way to get those songs to play later on as you originally set out to do is to manually reorder things. The basic principle of a queue is that things get lined up one after another, but in Spotify anything you add to the queue effectively jumps in line ahead of everything else.

Apple Music has a simple pair of options for each thing you add to the queue, which are "play next" and "play later". They do precisely what they say. No idiotic subsections that don't make sense, just a list of what's playing next to which you can add tracks to the beginning or the end of the line.

I generally like Spotify and am happy with it, except this one thing, which is stupid and bad and whoever designed it should be drowned in a river.

Interesting. If I hit a song it will play. If I add it to queue, it goes to the bottom of the list, and I find it easy to move songs up and down and change the order or to remove songs. I found this far less friendly in Apple Music.

 

[MacAddict1978]

They better fix their app since it's so slow and even the animation when changing songs is laggy and it's been like that for months now... i have no idea what they've done with that app but i am using spotify because it always felt smooth and fast but at this point i'm really considering moving to Apple Music even though i don't like the interface.

This. I don't Airplay to anything, but sometimes skipping songs on my Apple watch or iPhone causes it to stutter, freeze, then after 10 seconds the songs will start to skip ahead or go back and I have to shut it down and restart. This is playing on Google home speakers. Don't have this issue at all with Sonos.

It's the only thing about Spotify that I don't like because when it happens its so frustrating, I'd have to sell a kidney cover my debt to the swear jar if I had one.

 

[WRChris]

Which is like literally EVERY PODCAST on every platform. You can skip them.

It's not an "AD" for the hosting service when its literally part of the content you are listening to. That's like saying Netflix advertises no ads but shows your product placements in movies that they didn't make.

Spotify allows it. When the ad plays, Spotify shows the ad as what’s playing instead of the podcast name. It’s more like Netflix being ad free but allowing shows to put ads in. We aren’t talking about product placement, we are talking about straight up commercials.

I can skip them by physically scrolling to the end of the ad. I cannot double tap my headphone or use Siri to skip. That’s a problem when I’m working and that’s when I’m listening.

 

[mrbrown]

Did they already kill this feature? I participate in the TestFlight beta and had it for a couple of days - a new build was issued the other day and now this new CarPlay interface is gone.