Can Spotify plan on making local file synching not suck anymore? Over the course of a year they removed every common sense feature that made adding local files convenient, from drag-and-drop to simple filtering. Given that I discover most music through Plug.dj, and that most of those tracks are remixes unlisted on Spotify, the only thing going for them is the audio defaults to a louder volume. Once I can find a decent script to transfer my playlists, I'm not looking back.
Agreed. This year they even removed the ability to search among local files (!). Previously, you could at least go to the "Local Files" view and hit cmd-F (Filter). Filter now only works for playlists. The app search field doesn't match local files, of course.
It's an incredible oversight in an app which, by definition, has only a subset of the world's music; they are practically asking people to use iTunes to supplement their streaming selection.
iTunes has both local files and streaming, they really need to compete on that level. Fortunately for Spotify, Apple has made the Music UI as bad as the rest of iTunes; if Music had as good a UI as Spotify I would switch, easily.
