New Spotify app is awful.

aesphetic — Sun, 14 Jul 2019 13:01:45 GMT

Plan

Premium

Country

Device

motorola g7 power

Operating System

android

My Question or Issue

I'm a long time fan of Spotify, been using the app for years and been premium for around 3 years. It used to be an incredible app, great for organising playlists and downloading a ton of albums.

However, since the latest major update the app has been ruined, I'll try and break it down here:

The new UI is incredibly slow even in offline mode. Sometimes it won't load my songs/playlist at all and I have to restart the app. It was fairly slow even before this update but its gotten much worse now. I'm on a brand new phone.
WHERE ARE MY SAVED ARTISTS??? My process of saving songs on spotify has always been to find an artist I like, tap download on one of their songs/albums and then they would appear in my artist list. I had hundreds of artists in there, after the update I have 5. Apparently I now have to go through all of the songs in my library (over 2.5k) and check "follow" on the artist. This is incredibly annoying and unintuitive.
Where is the "SONGS" section??? In the older version there was a section that just listed every single song in my library. Now there is just "liked songs" which now only shows songs that i've "liked" rather than simply saved or downloaded. I barely use the "like" function and just want to be able to scroll through all the songs i own in order of recently added.
"Recently played" has moved to home tab, don't know why you'd move this here makes much more sense to be part of the library section where I spend most of the time browsing. Now everytime I want to find a song I listened to 10 minutes ago I have to tab to home and load all the explore **bleep** which is super slow. I've basically stopped using this function now.
Searching is slower than ever, shouldn't take that long. Especially in offline mode. Also side note; would be nice to be able to search songs/artists/albums just in my library in this section rather than the entire spotify catalogue.
STOP ADVERTISING ON PREMIUM! I pay a subscription so that i don't have to see ads when i use the app, recently you've started forcing pop ups promoting specific artists and suggesting i listen to them. Don't pretend this is a feature for us, you are being paid to promote these artists, I have no interest in the new Ed Sheeran album or whatever the **bleep**.

I hope I've made my point, I know I'm not the only one that's unhappy with the update... just look at the recent reviews on Google Play!

That being said there are a couple positives of the update that could be kept in the next rollout:

I like how music and podcasts are now seperated, makes navigating to podcasts much easier.
I don't mind the tabbed system, means less scrolling although it takes some getting used to.
The aesthetic of the search tab is nice.

Please either fix the app or give us an option to roll back to the previous version, thanks.

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New Spotify app is awful.