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3. You need playlists to come back to the music you've discovered.
If you search for, say, Adele, you can find a bunch of her music and listen to it. Cool so far. But what if you hear a song you really like while you're working on something, and then you want to hear it again later but can't remember what it's called?
Unless you add tracks to a playlist or star them, they aren't added to your library. That, of course, means you have to make playlist after playlist after playlist or add everything to your list of starred tracks, which seems to defeat the purpose. (Being the total neurotics that we are, we have a playlist for each artist we've listened to on Spotify, plus one master "Spotify" playlist for everything we've found, sort of like a library for what we've found online.)
If the idea is for Spotify to be a continuation of your music library, it seems silly that you can't add tracks you like to the library you already have -- especially when you consider our next gripe.
2. The search feature totally sucks.
Try searching for "Adele," and you get something like this:
What we have is, in short, a mess.
The song results aren't organized at all, really -- the first five songs are from three different albums (including one by someone named Beth). Clicking on Adele's name gets you a slightly better page, with her music organized by album, but why does it have to be so complicated (and, honestly, overwhelming) on first use? Compare the Spotify result above to what you get when you search for Adele on iTunes:
A bit easier on the eyes, no?
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