topic Re: The new search function is terrible in Desktop (Windows)

The new search function is terrible

clmd — Thu, 14 Sep 2017 22:32:06 GMT

Don't have much more to say. The drop down style search of the previous versions was much much better. Bringing you to a whole different page is ridiculous.

Re: The new search function is terrible

oskavelli — Thu, 14 Sep 2017 23:24:05 GMT

completely agree. making playlists is a massive pain all of a sudden

Re: The new search function is terrible

1215294268 — Fri, 15 Sep 2017 01:34:57 GMT

I could not agree more. I have no clue whatsoever what Spotify was thinking. This change makes using it significantly slower, less intuitive, and less user-friendly. In short, it is a massive failure in every conceivable way. I cannot for the life of me begin to fathom why it was made because it adds nothing whatsoever to the table and I cannot possibly imagine how it could be seen as anything but a downgrade by anybody. I've seen some stupid and baffling changes to apps before, but this is on a whole new level. It's so bad I'm about to go right back to Apple Music; I just switched back for the Hulu deal after having left Spotify for a year or so. I would literally rather give up Hulu and pay more per month than put up with this garbage. It is that big a deal to me. It has completely destroyed my ability to make playlists. Since iTunes still has a dropdown function, the UI is actually better than Spotify's now which is just sad. This needs to be fixed ASAP!

Re: The new search function is terrible

12D3 — Fri, 15 Sep 2017 12:42:17 GMT

I just updated my Spotify, and immediately encountered this problem. I absolutely love Spotify, but this is so unintuitive and annoying that I'm quickly coming to hate it.

I am constantly searching for songs, and this makes it incredibly slow and tedious. Also, every time I load a new page it takes a toll on my memory, so this is making it so much worse.

What a terrible, useless feature to add. Was pressing enter after typing in the song too hard for some people? Why not make it an option instead, then?

I've been using Spotify for years with no huge problems, and such a massive one like this really upsets me. I really hope they revert this terrible update. I don't know what I'll do if they don't.

Re: The new search function is terrible

vuuster — Fri, 15 Sep 2017 21:15:35 GMT

It's a long trademark for Spotify that their idiotic updates either break or remove some vital functionality. Those developing Spotify are clearly not using the program themselves, but are probably thinking "how to make the layout more minimalistic and modern".

Search is such an integral part of any music software that by 2017 there should be well-known standards for implementing working search function. Obviously Spotify fails to do something any amateur software designer would do better.

Why am I still paying for the premium account is beyond me. Shame on Spotify.

Re: The new search function is terrible

fishko17 — Sat, 23 Sep 2017 14:25:43 GMT

I hate the new search so much.

Is Spotify totally not care about UX? The horrible new search function makes me think the staffs never ever use their own app. The drop down list was perfect. The search history was perfect (where is it now?). Where do you get an idea to force the user to a blank page once they click the search field? It's non-sense and annoying! I might typing based on the information on my current page but I could only looking at nothing now!

Re: The new search function is terrible

PaulLovis — Sun, 26 Nov 2017 05:16:09 GMT

Honestly lads... It's just a way to make you listen to different songs. They want you to listen. Ask any artist and they will tell you they love it for the royalties which is only £0.006-£0.0084 for each listen.

Re: The new search function is terrible

hekemon — Thu, 02 Apr 2020 13:44:33 GMT

How on earth can this search be so horrible? If I search a song with an exactly correct title I get tons of results of titles that are completely different. The one I'm looking for might be there somewhere or not. Also the song search gives results of band names with the searched word just as much as songs.

If this is a scheme to boost some big label names I don't see how it would work. Someone who is searching for something specific will just get **bleep** off with the crappy results.