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Thank you very much for your comments and feedback, it is very much appreciated!

The playlist problem seems to be on Spotify's end, and in my own experience the problem also seems to be related mostly to shared / collaborative playlists.

The jittering could be related to pulseaudio, I have also experienced it sometimes (mostly during multi-tasking). It is however true that the music playback should receive highest possible priority (and I am constantly trying to optimize QSpot).. The crashing is also under investigation, and hopefully it will be possible to fix the problem in the openspotify library in the near future.

It would indeed be possible to add at some point support for predictive buffering, i.e., QSpot would wait until enough data is available to be able to play the track with minimal interruption.

Playlist management will require changes to the library, but I will definitely investigate whether it would be possible to add, as I think it would be a very useful feature to be able to create / edit playlists.. As I mentioned in a prior thread post, addition of offline mode has certain copyright problems.


Originally Posted by zillertal View Post
QSpot is a great piece of software, thank you! My experience & comments of the previous version a month ago and before (no Premium at the moment):

- Sometimes it loaded only 2-5 playlists in the start - restart helped often

- Music jittering sometimes, even when not doing anything with the phone. Swappolube & other tuning would probably help on this. Maybe renicing some processes could help? If music is played, it should be one of the highest priorities.

- Crashed sometimes in the middle of a song

- Buffering works mostly well, but when connection is bad and buffer gets empty, then it plays the song 0.5sec at a time, stops, 0.5secs more, stops, etc... So a better way would be to wait until at least a bit more of buffer has been filled (the whole song even). The buffer keeps the song in compressed format, right? Memory consumption explodes otherwise.

- I'm not sure if these are implemented: Playlist management (add/remove songs to playlists), Starring of songs, Loading playlists to offline mode (this would be a real killer feature)

- Support for different bitrates is very good! 3G is not available on the road

- QSpot looks very good and the usability feels very good!
 

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