I hope so too. I, too, have been a paying Spotify user for a long time and it just drives me crazy. I tried Rdio too but wasn't a fan. All music catalogs being equal, the bar is set pretty low at the moment. I really want to like Spotify too, because they seem like they're trying hard, but the UI and UX just feel terrible to me.
I've used Spotify since 2008. The recent UI change really ruining the experience. I believe they are using Chromium now.
Spotify uses 1GB of ram, and every 10 seconds the CPU usage spikes to max. The UI is so unresponsive, Firefox is more responsive while restoring a session of 100 tabs.
I no longer pay for Spotify. The free version is litterd with malware ads, on par with SourceForge.
They've also remvoed 70% of it's original features.
After downgrading to version 0.9.7.x, all UI/UX problems I had are gone. I'm pretty satisfied with their old client.
I've been thinking, that services like spotify could give users way to script their own music discovery. Fiddle with different properties to discover random music or very specific genres. Ability to exclude popular artists, etc.
