Spotify for iPhone
Tried the Spotify app for iPhone when I went running. Worked fine until 3G reception got worse (due to being in the woods) and then it started cutting out. No matter what I did it didn’t seem to be able to use the offline mode so that the music wouldn’t stop when the connection drops. It also seemed to have trouble finding the Spotify servers on startup at times even with a solid 3G connection.
Overall the app is about as poorly done as the Win/Mac version of Spotify. You can’t even find related artists, there’s no radio (not that it works properly even in the desktop app) and at times it forgot what it was supposed to play and just did nothing until you restart the app. It wasn’t frozen, it just lost the connection and wouldn’t reconnect, even search didn’t work. If you quit the app by going to the home screen, music stops playing. My headphone cord’s play/pause/next track/previous track button controls don’t seem to work in Spotify either.
I have Spotify Premium for 3 months free and I don’t think I’ll bother keeping the subscription after that. Spotify is just not good enough and the developers seem to be more interested in adding social networking bullshit than actually making the software do what users want.
