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I canceled a $10/month Spotify subscription because their player wasn't close to parity with players like WinAmp and wasn't even moving in that direction.

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I am a happy Spotify user and ... it's still easier to find a song quickly by Googling "song name" "artist" site:youtube.com .

If you do that multiple times a day, give DuckDuckGo a shot:

"song name" "artist" !yt

Takes you right to the YouTube results.

Chrome is smart. If I just type "y" and then tab, it automatically goes to youtube search.

You can do similar things on firefox with search engine keywords. I have mine setup for video so "video <search terms>" in the address bar will go to youtube. But you could bind it to just y if you wanted.

I just typed 'y' the other day and it just got what I was going to want in 10 seconds...

looks like chrome copied an old opera feature ;)

At one point some folks within Spotify released a very impressive Spotify client which exactly mimicked the old Winamp 2 user interface. However it Seems to have silently vanished from the internet. https://news.spotify.com/us/2013/12/20/spotiamp-long-live-th...

The source is on Github: https://github.com/spotify/spotiamb

Fun fact: The developer that made it (Ludvig Strigeus) is the same developer that made µTorrent and ScummVM.

>µTorrent and ScummVM

Two pieces of amazing software. Good job, that man.

Although, hasn't µTorrent been bought by somebody who added the usual spyware?

IIRC, it was bought by the BitTorrent team itself and there eventually was little difference between the spyware of the "main" BitTorrent client and uTorrent.

IIRC last I heard of it, the people who bought it were reporting usage info the RIAA, among other people?

It mined bitcoin in the background somewhere between 2.0 and 3.0 if I recall correctly.

Yeah, Spotify's ridiculous addition of gapless playback with no knob to turn it off made me quit them a few months ago. WinAmp still works great for my Windows machine; VLC works pretty good for my BSD machine.

In settings you can disable 'crossfade songs'.

I tried that. It did not work. It's too late, I deleted the app three months ago, and anyway now I have a dumb phone. I don't miss Spotify at all. Sometimes I miss maps, though.

Isn't it disabled by default?

Gapless playback was on by default when I had the app, after an update that happened sometime last summer or fall.

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