Spotify - Music and Podcasts

"I don't mind not having some features but I think it is a little bare bones. For some reason I can't use Google AI to put this in audio only mode. The audio cuts out when I try it. It used to work before. I have to go into settings > audio > advanced and turn it off there. Which is a pain when you aren't even in the room."

"No Neil Young???"

"NO support for looping video as seen on the mobile app experience. PLEASE ADD."

"Update: Spotify managed to solve most of my previous complaints and so I kept my paid membership. I'm still not happy with their interface, it feels dated and lacks features that dedicated podcasts apps have, however, I would have bumped my score up to 3/5 but in another massive fail, Spotify now feel justified in putting multiple ads into my podcast listening experience...isn't this the whole point of paying for membership Spotify? If I could rate them 0/5 I would. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Absolutely disgusted by the lack of effort put into podcasts! As far as a music streaming app it is solid for me and I was content, however, for podcasts it doesn't even come close to offering basic functionality found in pretty much every podcast app out there. As a regular Joe Rogan Experience listener/viewer I am now effectively not able to listen to this podcast in the multitude of basic ways I have been used to over many years. I have an Android car head unit that will not even play audio of the stream let alone video, my Galaxy S20 phone will stop playing after 10 mins of my screen being switched off, the video experience in the app is slow and buggy, and my NVIDIA Shield app cannot play video at all??? Crazy! Looks like you should have offered Joe a smaller amount and pumped some of those funds into development of the podcast side of your app. I really expected more than this buggy mess of a podcast implementation after the acquisition of one of the biggest podcasts out there (for now!). There has been ample time to address the basics like being able to play a video! I am looking into better alternatives now and will likely cancel my premium subscription because of this terrible experience and I would recommend others to save your money and do the same."

"What have you done to podcast playback? It used to respond to seek/reverse seek controls by invoking the 15s forward/back behavior. Now it invokes next-track/previous-track instead. Makes it much less useful as a podcast app."

"Absolutely ZERO options. No normalization. No downloading. No shuffle. No quality settings. No equalizer. Nothing. NO OPTIONS WHATSOEVER. One of the crappiest Android TV apps I've run across."

"This app allows you to take your music and podcasts with you, but it's horrible at it. The user interface is far too busy, with functions that aren't useful for someone on the go. The buttons and icons don't have intuitive behaviors. Functions with no relationship are linked to a single click - e.g., if I download a podcast, it automatically adds it to some list called "Your Episodes". But I can't find where to view or manage Your Episodes. And paradoxically, when I delete a podcast from my device, the episode count on the Your Episodes list increments UP by one. It doesn't integrate well, or consistently, with the desktop or Chromecast apps. Sometimes I go from my apartment to my car and the mobile app picks up right where I left off on my desktop. Other times it automatically starts playing something altogether different, and not of my choosing. The app also tries to do too many things on its own. In the car, get home, hit pause, turn down the volume so it doesn't scare me next time, and the damn app starts playing again, because apparently turning the volume down means, "Start playing again." "Offline Mode" seems to play content that I know I haven't downloaded locally. How is it doing that? Whose data limits are being burned? The end user certainly doesn't know, because nothing is intuitive, labeled properly, or meaningful. I tolerate the app because I have the service. But it's a horrible, horrible app."

"This version was installed on my "Chromecast with Google TV" and seems to be somewhat lacking in features. My biggest complaint is the poor volume normalisation. For example, it's impossible to relax even to 'easy listening' music when everyone is in bed because I need to be constantly mindful of adjusting the volume. Even when playing tracks from same albums, the volume is all over the place. It's one of Spotify's biggest flaws."

"Uninstalled it after getting annoyed with the app taking focus and playing music when pressing play while in another app. Does not provide anything worthwhile over casting to the TV. If the above is fixed and it would pick up where I left of playing my music on another device... I would consider installing it again. Please fix this and add some worthwhile features such as lyrics and video clips."

"Please introduce Lyrics on Android TV app"