Is Spotify really this bad or do I just need a new phone?

[Windows Central Question]

The most important app I have on my phone is Spotify. I use it during workouts, in the car, and at home. However, I find it to be a terribly frustrating app to use. It takes more than 30 seconds to initially load up, is slow to navigate from various screens (not quite as long as the initial load up, but still very frustrating), the music (which is downloaded to my SD card) will occasionally skip, and worse of all, crashes at least once a day.

The Spotify app for Windows Phone has been notorious for its poor design, and so I was hoping that the latest update would significantly fix the issues. This - at least for me - hasn't happened.

But I'm not sure that it's actually the app itself. I have a Lumia 520, which, in phone years, is ancient. So I have to ask: Is it the app, the phone, or a combination of both?

Does the 4-inch BLU Windows phone handle Spotify well enough? Is there a phone that one might recommend to me to get better performance out of Spotify?

I've actually been considering buying an iPod Touch for the sole purpose of Spotify...

Thanks in advance for you help.

 

[bichaels]

To answer my own question I think too many playlists was my problem. After cutting down the number it is much more useable and doesn't crash like it did. Though I would hardly call it snappy at least I can use it without getting super annoyed now. I never reorganised after 'collections' were introduced but that seems to be how it's meant to be used now.

Now if they would just move that hard to reach button in the top left corner... hey, how about putting things you need near the bottom where you can reach, now there's an idea!

 

[bichaels]

So I made a new test account and it was much quicker, if not exactly snappy... So I think my problem was too many playlists. I never reorganised after they added 'collections' which seems to be how it has to be used. So at least bearable to use now. Not sure why I didn't try earlier (or why it wasn't made clearer that too many playlists would make things crawl).

Now if they would only move that annoyingly difficult to reach button in the top left corner... hey, how about near the bottom, there's an idea!