<story><title>The clock is ticking for Spotify</title><url>http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-38930699</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>ivraatiems</author><text>The music industry doesn&amp;#x27;t need to ruin Spotify. It&amp;#x27;s ruining itself.&lt;p&gt;Its support is abysmal, its apps are bug-riddled and get worse with every update, and it&amp;#x27;s consistently doing boneheaded &amp;quot;pivot&amp;quot; moves (like mandatory Facebook login a couple years back, &amp;quot;version 1.0&amp;quot; of the desktop app more recently), and so on. It&amp;#x27;s squandering the good faith and great library it has.</text></item><item><author>iamben</author><text>I can&amp;#x27;t be the only one that has almost zero faith the music industry won&amp;#x27;t ruin Spotify? I&amp;#x27;m sure it won&amp;#x27;t be deliberate, just a combination of stubbornness, greed and living in the past.&lt;p&gt;Spotify and music is like a library and books. It&amp;#x27;s fantastic and accessible for listening and discovery. I&amp;#x27;m hard pushed to find a friend that didn&amp;#x27;t use napster or limewire that&amp;#x27;s moved to Spotify - it&amp;#x27;s just easy, there and the price is right. And with the exception of a few hold out artists (lost back catalogues, or smaller artists who are unaware of 100% revenue services like distrokid.com) it&amp;#x27;s pretty complete. It&amp;#x27;ll be such a shame if it slowly goes the way of the buffalo.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>zpr</author><text>I agree. Never cared much for the UI, and always found it too buggy to keep using. At my old job, we used it for office tunes, and it was often showing the wrong song that was playing, (so you never knew what you were listening to unless you used something like SoundHound), and going to previous or next tracks was  inconsistent, so you might not get back to the last song ever again.&lt;p&gt;Pardon my ignorance but why is Google Play Music not worth mention here?</text></comment>
<story><title>The clock is ticking for Spotify</title><url>http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-38930699</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>ivraatiems</author><text>The music industry doesn&amp;#x27;t need to ruin Spotify. It&amp;#x27;s ruining itself.&lt;p&gt;Its support is abysmal, its apps are bug-riddled and get worse with every update, and it&amp;#x27;s consistently doing boneheaded &amp;quot;pivot&amp;quot; moves (like mandatory Facebook login a couple years back, &amp;quot;version 1.0&amp;quot; of the desktop app more recently), and so on. It&amp;#x27;s squandering the good faith and great library it has.</text></item><item><author>iamben</author><text>I can&amp;#x27;t be the only one that has almost zero faith the music industry won&amp;#x27;t ruin Spotify? I&amp;#x27;m sure it won&amp;#x27;t be deliberate, just a combination of stubbornness, greed and living in the past.&lt;p&gt;Spotify and music is like a library and books. It&amp;#x27;s fantastic and accessible for listening and discovery. I&amp;#x27;m hard pushed to find a friend that didn&amp;#x27;t use napster or limewire that&amp;#x27;s moved to Spotify - it&amp;#x27;s just easy, there and the price is right. And with the exception of a few hold out artists (lost back catalogues, or smaller artists who are unaware of 100% revenue services like distrokid.com) it&amp;#x27;s pretty complete. It&amp;#x27;ll be such a shame if it slowly goes the way of the buffalo.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>hellopat</author><text>I have absolutely no issues with the mobile or desktop versions of the app.</text></comment>