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Streaming music apps
Raised as a usability problem by 5 people on Hacker News over 10 years (2017–2026), in 6 threads.
This is a broad category rather than one product, so its issues aren't ranked on the home page.
People raised many different problems with Streaming music apps, 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 6 complaints
- Takes about 10 seconds to open despite powerful hardware2026-08-25
- Buttons keep moving and popups interrupt simply starting music, making playback slower2026-07-17
- No direct way to search only your own library, not the entire catalog2025-04-13
- Doing more than background listening is cumbersome, with clicking and scrolling to reach things2024-08-05
- Too many steps and clutter to start playing a song you want2024-01-27
- Switching stations over digital networks has buffering delays, unlike instant FM tuning2017-09-29