Products · Broad category
Music player apps
Raised as a usability problem by 19 people on Hacker News over 16 years (2011–2026), in 16 threads.
This is a broad category rather than one product, so its issues aren't ranked on the home page.
No issue was raised by at least 3 people in 3 threads this year.
No issue was raised by at least 3 people in 3 threads in the last 5 years.
- 1Slow searching in large music librariesUnreviewed
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Slow searching in large music librariesUnreviewed
20112026- Existing music players are laggy and prone to hanging when interacting2025-12-15
- Music players have bad UI and slow searching in large libraries2019-06-12
- Searches and browsing are bad, and players are slow to start2017-06-26
Unreviewed issues were grouped by machine: Claude Haiku labelled each comment as a usability complaint, named what it's about and summed up the problem in a line, and a small model grouped similar problems. Nobody has checked them by hand. Expect mistakes.
The newest 19 complaints
- Songs got blocked from playing in Safari on a real iPad2026-10-11
- Play/pause button shows the wrong state, pause when nothing plays and play when something is playing2026-08-05
- Album art and track info can't both show unless the cursor hovers over the window2026-03-01
- Existing music players are laggy and prone to hanging when interacting2025-12-15
- User couldn't figure out how to add files to a playlist within five minutes2025-02-16
- Most music players ignore or poorly support the Grouping tag, so genre filtering fails2024-05-25
- Touchscreen music players force users to look at the screen to operate them2023-12-16
- Players inconsistently handle album dates, so albums sort and filter wrongly2022-06-07
- Browsing the main page changes what is currently playing2022-01-22
- Free music apps have basic skip, playlist and random controls deliberately broken to push paid upgrades2022-01-01
- Never knows what the back button or any click will do2019-08-19
- Music players have bad UI and slow searching in large libraries2019-06-12
- Searches and browsing are bad, and players are slow to start2017-06-26
- Hard to use, especially on touch screens2017-06-26
- Players bundle unwanted social and library features that clutter the interface and get in the way2017-06-26
- Can't view tracks as they sit in folders because apps are overly clever about organizing music2015-11-18
- Apps won't let users browse their own directory hierarchy for music or photos2012-07-26
- Preferences placed in app toolbar instead of standard Mac location, text menus instead of icons2011-11-08
- No intuitive way to go back after drilling into a playlist; can't enqueue whole playlist2011-11-08