• deweydecibel@lemmy.world
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    7 months ago

    Spotify had the best UX of any music streaming service for the longest time

    Not if you actually like have controls and managing music. They’ve been actively fucking their UX’s usability for years. Options just disappearing or being moved to hidden places, garbage shoved in front you constantly, etc.

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      7 months ago

      I’ve discovered recently that if you block artists you won’t be able to see a list of who you blocked later anywhere in the UI be it mobile or desktop or web.

      Only way is to request an account data download and then parse the zip file they give you lmfao

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        7 months ago

        So, you’re saying, if I borrow my friend’s Spotify, and block most of their favourite artists, they won’t know what I’ve done or how to undo it?

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          7 months ago

          Living up to your username I see lmao

          Yea, the only way to unblock an artist as of now is if you manually navigate to each individual artist page and THEN it’ll have an “Unblock Artist” button (And iirc it only shows up on one version of the app, either desktop or mobile I forgot which). There’s no other indication anywhere else of blocked artists lol

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      7 months ago

      Yes, I made this point in my comment, the last few years Spotify has been going through the same UX disaster the rest of the web is, changing things for the sake of it.