taro: "i get the technical reason behind it because they don't want to enumerate all playlists on launch since it would scale poorly and their api isn't that smart for the ui to have something reasonable to display to the user"

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taroFeb 18, 2026

playlists allowing duplicate insertions but being idempotent on removal is like the worst pairing

i get the technical reason behind it because they don't want to enumerate all playlists on launch since it would scale poorly and their api isn't that smart for the ui to have something reasonable to display to the user

February 18, 2026 at 7:43 AM

taroFeb 18, 2026

apple music android is kind of more aware, i wonder how they do it

taroFeb 18, 2026

but the removal piece could still be done way better