Spotless Spotify

I started writing this on the Spotify community forum, but I started expounding, so I thought I probably ought to record it here first.

I'm having so much fun here. Sorry, that was a lie. Or was it? Normally a website that gives me as much trouble as Spotify does would be regarded as a royal pain-in-the-neck.

I'm checking the fringes of my digital domain (riding the fences, so to speak), deleting spam from my email and I come across a note from Spotify promoting a tune. Well, sure I'll give it a shot, so I click. The click takes me to the Spotify website, but not to the tune they are promoting. Find the tune, login, click play and I get a big fat error - "The version of Chrome is not supported", so I update my OS, which hopefully updates Chrome because I don't want any more instructions.

The frustration from following all the relatively simple instructions to correct a fundamental problem is very annoying. On the other hand it has given me something to focus on. The original problem of not being able to play tunes using Spotify on the Chrome web browser I can kind of understand. Chrome is a Google product, and we now know Google is pretty much just like any other person / corporate entity - they are going to look out for their own best interests, and it that means making some obscure little tweak to Chrome that makes everybody else's streaming engine choke, well I wouldn't be surprised.

On the other hand it might be that Google is simply following an evolving specification and Spotify's programmers are slacking.

Whatever, we'll probably never know. I Google the problem and find myself on Spotify community forum, where I go through more contortions to get logged in. I eventually find this topic and follow more instructions, but Spotify still no worky.

I was thinking about posting technical info like OS and brower versions, but since they aren't asking, maybe they don't care.