hellow Ivelina
The new update I think solved the problem. I open my Spotify after a windows update, and it installed a new version when opening. And the problem is solved for the most part.
However, there is a problem with the implementation. In Spotify for Windows (64 bit)
1.2.59.514.g834e17d4
I am not shore but in focused mode I can go over the rows and where it normally says number above the play buttons for the songs now it says nothing. However, the title artist, album and date added, and duration column headings are readable, that is a win.
Before normally my focus would be on the title column on the top not on the 1st song but the top where it says title. From there I would press down arrow and go to the first song. It is here there are 3 problems one bug and one issue and one divisive implementation which the UI people need to thing about a bit more I would say, as it is subjective.
The performance issue is that in larger playlist views like my Liked Songs I would encounter a problem where it would take ages to navigate to the songs on the playlist. The screen reader would say title, album and artist when I would press left or rite arrow keys, but as soon as I pressed down arrow to go to the first track of the playlist it would not do anything for a long time, i think it is loading or something but I do not know. At first, I thought it is because it is only doing it for large playlists as my Liked Songs have 742 songs within them, but then I tried it with a small playlist with 6 songs and the issue still occurred. If possible, I would like it to go to the next element or song as soon as I navigate to the playlist view table and change into focus mode and press down arrow.
The bug is in larger playlists like my Liked Songs where this happened. Weather I used the NVDA table navigation in brows mode control + alt + arrow keys, or the arrow keys up and down, in focus mode. With 742 songs and the first row being 743 when I would use any navigation method it would skip all the way to song 340 sometimes 329, it changes when I add more songs to the Liked Songs but it dose happen in large playlists views.
My last part would be about implementation of the new navigation. After it is loaded, and I am able to navigate the playlists when I am on the play buttons it would say something like “play yellow by Coldplay – row one column one” and the same with the row changed for the songs as you pressed down and up arrow in focus mode. Before I would press rite arrow, and it would just read the title of the track from the title column without announcing play as this was the title column with no play button. Now this is the matter of subjective preference which I would like to weigh in on and I would encourage the development team to further look into. The new implementation directly skips to the artist column after pressing the right arrow from column 1 to column 3, now I understand the rational behind this, people do not want to hear the title of the song that they already heard when they are on the play button, so there is no reason to go to column 2. However, when perusing the playlists in focus mode looking for a specific song I do not what to hear “play” constantly before the song title on the first row, I used the title row for that, as it would not say “play” and also It would not say “title” before the song title, if I remember correctly it would just say “Yellow by Coldplay - column 2” it would say “column 2” because I was navigating from one column to the next, when I was in the column I could navigate peacefully without hearing “play” all the time and I would just hear the song name and row number when going through the rows with the up and down arrow keys, which would let me know where in the playlist I was. Keep in mind this was before the functionality was lost and was reimplemented in the new update differently. Would it be possible to return to the olde ways, I like it exactly how it worked before. However, once more this is to an extent a matter of preference and mine is one opinion amongst many so I would just like to put my word in to revive the old playlist navigation methods.
Lastly pleas make the navigation snappy like the olde methods before it was not working. This new implementation feels jittery and a bit sluggish when going from one song to the next, the latency is noticeable. With all that being said, thank you so much for getting to the end of this post. I have outlined all the complains I have in great detail, and I understand development takes time and will be waiting patiently.
I understand some of this goes beyond bug reporting, and more towards feature requesting and I apologize for that. Take care, and I do not wish for development crunch for any developer.
And thank you Ivelina for replying to the poste and keeping up with the developments.
Thanking you
Nandish Hiremath
Staff / Moderator/ 3 years ago in Social & Random