blau

Make the library more functional

Status: Under Consideration
by blau on ‎22-03-2012 09:11 AM - last edited on ‎31-07-2012 11:06 AM by Community Manager

The Library is a really confusing and endless list of songs, especaly on the mobile apps. You can't just click around and just listen to music without knowing what you want to hear.

 

It would be awesome if there was a possibility to Split the Screen when you're in the library an show a list with Artists, Album and Genre. Like we all know it from iTunes, Winamp, WMP. So you could click on an artist an all titles, albums and genres that aren't realated to him disappear. Just like a predefined Filters for all the artists, genres and albums in your library.

 

So it would be much easier to search to search for music in your library without knowing exactly what you are searching for.

This is also why a search function can't replace such filters.

 

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There should also be a possibility to edit which details are shown in the library. Things like "year of release", "track number on the album" or just "number on the playlist" are hardly missing.

Status: Under Consideration

 

Hello folks! Sorry for the delay on updating this idea.

We are going to mark it as "Under Consideration" since we have passed the idea internally and our team is considering and thinking of a better way to display the library.

We will get back to this thread when we have news about it. So keep a close eye on it... :)

Thanks for your contribution!

Comments
by TheBigKahuna on ‎16-03-2012 09:39 PM

I'd like to see improvements to the library functionality. Specifically:

 

  1. Separate library functionality from starred and playlists. It's great that starred and playlisted songs are part of your library but almost all of my playlists are albums because I don't want to star entire albums. I'd like an add to library button that just does that.
  2. Improved library view. A split view where I can select artist, album, then tracks. WinAMP had a great implementation of this. The current library view doesn't work for me because I can't quickly scroll to a specific artist having to scroll through all tracks of all other artists.

My 2c.

by pocketMobilizer on ‎18-03-2012 12:44 AM

This needs to be implemented ASAP. Spotify, keep your UI up to industry standards.

by Josiah86 on ‎22-03-2012 03:26 PM

Being able to sort our playlists by Album or Artist would be amazing, especially on the mobile app. I end up just shuffling my playlists because it takes way too long to find the artist, album or song that I'm in the mood for. Winamp, iTunes and WMP all do this and it's what we're all used to (and it works).

by olybenjamin on ‎23-03-2012 03:03 PM

For the love of god, pelase let us sort by genre!!

by Cryser7 on ‎23-03-2012 10:17 PM

That is my biggest wish for Spotify!!!

Pleasy make a function that you can scroll through the covers of your albums like in iTunes :)

 

by tjb on ‎24-03-2012 02:02 PM

The first time I opened Spotify, it blew my mind that this feature didn't exist.  I desperately need this for browsing my local files.

by glassFractals on ‎26-03-2012 11:37 PM

This would be great.  An added bonus would be the ability to tag a track/album/artist with multiple genres and sub-genres.

by eia on ‎03-04-2012 12:17 PM

This just needs to be added when you support local files

by vurtual on ‎05-04-2012 03:20 PM

This is a total necessity!

by bennythew ‎17-04-2012 12:38 PM - edited ‎17-04-2012 12:39 PM

I love spotify but the lack of this feature seriously limits its usability.

 

I end up listening to the same old songs, same old albums due to not being able to scroll, sort and look through my music (both Spotty content and local files) with as much ease as itunes or wmp...

 

The ability to group artist's albums, see cover art etc would make spotify the best music player ever made... 

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