I don’t know what your impression of Netease Cloud Music is.
Is it a high-yield Korean drama-level tragedy story? Is it a late-night gathering place for late emo netizens? Or the commercial loser who lost the copyright in Jay Chou?
These stereotypes, like cyber tattoos, are stacked one after another in everyone’s memory.
So that I can communicate with new friends I know. A says "I use Spotify", B says "I use Apple Music", C says "I use QQ music" and I say "I use Netease Cloud", and they will all ask me if my demand is to send an annual report on listening to songs in the circle of friends at the end of the year.
However, these ridicules seem to be coming to an end in 2024.
A few days ago, I saw such a push ↓
In this push called "Netease Cloud Music New Revision", it claims that this isThe biggest revision ever..
In the letter sent to users by the Netease Cloud Music Revision Project Team at the top of the page, Netease Cloud showed its cards on the table and directly said that it was wrong, and it had blocked a bunch of broken functions for so many years.
So it simply stood at attention, just like Mr. Tree. There are many people outside, and now my buddy kneels for you here.
But not what it says, but what it does.
In this Netease cloud, which claims to be the biggest revision in history, it has been adjusted in the following aspects.
The first is the most obvious change, which is the layout of the page.
Left old version, right new version
In the original page, below the search box, there is a banner first. In addition to recommending some songs, there are naturally advertisements. At least as soon as I clicked in, a free advertisement was plastered on my face.
Below banner is a long row of icon, from daily recommendations and leaderboards to audio books and live broadcasts. . . A bunch of functions that are not available are all stuffed here.
In the downward slide, it is a more intuitive list of all kinds of songs.
Compared with the old version, the recommendation page of the new version is much purer. A lot of miscellaneous functions are gone, from top to bottom, all of which are lists of various songs.
On the one hand, this is really more comfortable than before.
However, those functions that are hard to develop will not be simply deleted, regardless of whether the user answers or not, Netease Cloud employees are estimated not to agree.
This is the food and clothing department of millions of straw workers. I don’t know how many departments point to this for dinner.
The solution to this problem is to adjust the bottom pages. The original five pages of discovery, blog, mine, attention and community have become recommendation, discovery, roaming, dynamic and mine.
Those functions, such as live broadcast, audio book and song room, are just thrown into the discovery page on the right side of the recommendation page.
As for the roaming page, it is actually the private roaming function under the banner of the old version of the homepage.
This is really nothing to introduce, it hasn’t changed at all.
Left old version and right new version, let’s find the difference together.
The "My" page, which was replaced by the current roaming position, was moved to the far right. There is nothing to talk about this. The main function is not big compared with the previous changes, and it is basically the management of collecting and downloading music.
What is worth talking about is the dynamic page that is now sandwiched between roaming and me.
What was originally on this page was attention. As the name implies, whoever you pay attention to, he will give you the dynamic news of whom you push. It is essentially no different from Weibo.
In the new version, the names attention and dynamic have been changed, and dynamic has become the name of the page, while attention has become one of the functions of the dynamic page.
In the dynamic page, there is also an extra square page.
Don’t be too surprised, click in and you will find it familiar — — This is the original story meeting in the comment area!
Boy, in the original letter to users at the beginning, Do not forget your initiative mind refers not only to Do not forget your initiative mind of music, but also to those story meetings and paragraphs.
Talking about this, if you also want to experience the new version of Netease Cloud Music, you can search for a new revision of Netease Cloud Music in the app, click the search result to the bottom, and there is a button to experience it immediately.
Then click this button, and a pop-up window will pop up. Click to experience the new version and you can use it.
But! ! ! Before you decide to start experiencing the new version, I suggest you read this article first.
No matter how many words Netease Cloud said, it will eventually return to the user experience.
Originally, I also asked a brother inside Netease Cloud to talk about this wave of revision. As a result, he shook his head as soon as he heard the interview.
Asked why he didn’t want to accept this opportunity of advertising for free, he gave me a meaningful look.
At first, I didn’t know why they refused until I saw the comments from netizens.
Below the Weibo that Netease Cloud Music officially announced a brand-new revision, you can see the real feelings of users by turning down several highly praised comments.
The simplest foul mouth, the most extreme enjoyment, the keywords "blind change" and "difficult to use" are full of comments, and netizens are rushing to let Netease Cloud issue a letter of condemnation.
As for why you are upset, everyone has their own opinions.
Some people think that the typography is confusing and unattractive, while others think that the function is complicated and the use is confusing.
To sum it up in the words of my brother at station B:
It is true that users cannot all be Zhang Xiaolong-level product managers.(not)But if a person can’t say it well, it may be this person’s problem. Everyone spits, which may be more or less problematic.
The essential reason why everyone is unhappy is that there is a big gap between the revised declaration and the actual experience.
The slogan of the revision is "do subtraction" to reduce the bloated function. But after everyone clicked in, they found that the home page was really refreshing, and the look and feel was a bit like Apple Music. But the price is that other places are too messy.
Those functions that seem to have been reduced are all stuffed into the corner by the product manager with a wave of his hand.
Users rushed to use the new version, and found that how to use it is no different from the old version?
Moreover, the new version of the navigation bar is not used to it, and it cannot be customized.
This is not a minor problem. On the customer service page, the question of whether you can customize the bottom navigation bar has rushed to the top. . .
As for the answer to the question, it is also very straightforward: no.
As for when it can be customized, it depends on when the product manager has this idea.
And I don’t know if you’ve noticed that many of the pictures above have some hints:You can’t go back to the old version after upgrading the new version.
I guess many people have overturned their cars here because they want to experience the new version and didn’t read the fine print of the notes carefully.
Just like when logging in to various domestic apps, you will subconsciously skip the user agreement. . .
If you simply use it to listen to music, the experience will be much more convenient than before, at least the recommendation page is clean and purely around music.
But if you have certain requirements for other functions, then I’m sorry. You have to toss the new version as half new software to find out where those functions have gone.
In order to return to the old version, people try their best. Smart brother went to a third-party website to download the old version, and some really didn’t recruit, which may have been uninstalled.
Throughout the years, it seems that the update of Netease Cloud has not been well received by netizens.
First, the advertisement is highly infiltrated, then the VIP is strongly promoted, then the Jay Chou incident is fermented, and miscellaneous functions such as video and live broadcast are added.
Even so, there are still many people who choose to forgive after scolding.
Many people, including me, should feel that the users of this app are completely different from those of other music apps. Whether it’s Wen Qing or melodramatic, everyone seems to be more emotional than netizens in other places.
Netease Cloud itself is also around this point, expanding the app into a community with its own culture.
But what about that copyright of my song?
Undeniably, it is a good thing that a product can have its own community culture, so that users can have a strong sense of belonging — — However, the premise of everything is to have enough content to support the lasting operation of the product.
There is not enough content to support the end of the product. It is not unheard of. At that time, the second-generation giant ACfun, now the soil has been buried in the eyebrows.
People, including users of station B, are missing it, and even when the UP is asking for the third company, "Five bananas have been voted" will appear in the comment area.
I can miss it, but no one uses it. The number of videos on the hot list is not necessarily as large as the number of fans of a new UP master at a B station.
Whether Netease Cloud will set foot on this road is anyone’s guess now.
I just stand from the user’s point of view and expect it to go further. After all, it carries my whole youth.
Source of this article: Bad review