Playlist transfer tools

Raised as a usability problem by 5 people on Hacker News over 12 years (2011–2022), in 3 threads.

People raised many different problems with Playlist transfer tools, but no single problem has yet been raised by 3 people in 3 different months and threads.

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 5 complaints

No loading indicator, so requests taking 30+ seconds give no feedback2022-10-10
Scrolling during a new search fires paging requests for the previous search's pages2022-10-10
Searching by artist returns zero results, and results load only on scroll so the wanted track is hard to find2022-10-10
Third-party tools gave terrible results when moving playlists between services2020-10-23
Creating playlists requires exporting from other players to text, which is too difficult for most users2011-04-22