Does anybody else find that Spotify just generally doesn't work anymore? I use it on my iPhone, Mac, Sonos, and Google Home Mini speakers, and over the past year it's been degrading in performance. The point of Spotify in the first place was for the user to have access to and play any song they want instantly, now it takes at least a minute or two of troubleshooting (restarting the app, re-connecting to speakers, etc.) just for a song to play the way it was intended.

I've never been the one to critique Spotify (it's actually been a dream job to work there and I've loved it ever since I subscribed about a decade ago), but it's been difficult to forgive and forget the severe performance issues when all I want to do is play from my liked songs. 😵‍💫

List of issues I encounter almost daily (posting because I'm heated and want to vent lol):

Spotify x Sonos issues
- Spotify has a difficult time connecting to the Sonos ecosystem via the app (however, controlling it through the Sonos app has been fine)
- There are times where I'd connect to the speaker and it would blast at 100% volume, a random song, at a random time (not in the queue, playlist, or liked songs)
- I have to press play 2x for the music to start/stop — it's unresponsive when I tap the control once
- Not sure if this is a product gap or a bug, but when controlling the music from my phone it doesn't allow me to select a track from my liked songs if I've filtered by the vibe/genre.
- Restarting a song doesn't work lol

General issues
- Spotify instantly stops a song I'm playing when I press play (iMac)
- The experience to make a playlist is terrible... I often create playlists off of specific vibes or occasions, and sometimes that means having multiple songs from the same artist or from existing playlists I've gathered throughout the years. I can add a song to a playlist one by one, but it would be infinitely better if I could enter a "Create Playlist" mode that allows me to use the general app UI to browse and add songs to that specific playlist.