To help me discover new music, I usually star items in Spotify. This then gets synced to my iPhone so I have it on the go. On the iPhone client, the star functionality works incredibly well. If you — like I frequently do — realize after twenty seconds that this track might not be for you, all you need to do is simply tap the star. This will unstar the track, and move you to the next track in the list. So it’s effectively doing two tasks in one, which fits my use case perfectly.
On the desktop clients, on the other hand, unstarring an item simply unstars it. I usually have Spotify running in the background lurking behind a bunch of other windows, so I need to bring it up, find the current track in the playlist, unstar it, and then hit next.
This is how I would like it to work: I want that same star/unstar functionality from the mobile client but embedded in the contextual menu in Mac OS X. This way, if I hear a track I don’t like, I can just right click on the Spotify icon and select Unstar. This would unstar it and move on to the next track.
Neat idea. You should send it to Spotify if they have any sort of feedback channel.
BTW you addiction to Spotify seems progressing ;) I still haven’t reached the point when I am ready to pay for it even though I do want it on my iPhone :)
I poked them on Twitter, and they replied they were going to look at it at least. There is hope!
:)