Spotify Ideas

I have always been very frustrated with the fact that if I want to listen to a song or use it in a playlist (offline) within the Spotify app, I cannot do so with a song that is already on my device.

 

Example:

I use the Spotify app on my iPhone for most of my music listening. However, I have a handful of other apps that allow me to listen to my local music through them (like a game or workout app for example), but all these other apps can only see songs on my iPhone that were synced via iTunes. Say I want to listen to a certain playlist or album during my workout using my workout app, but I also want to listen to those same songs later in the Spotify app (offline, to save on data streaming). This would require me to have TWO copies of each song on my device (Which is rediculous! Who has the extra space for that?), one in the native music player library, and one synced using Spotify.

 

PLEASE find a way for the Spotify app to recognize the existing songs on a mobile device without having to sync them using desktop Spotify. No one should have to have duplicates of local songs on their device. Compatibility with the local native music on a device would be a godsend!

I'm not 100 percent sure on how much attention is payed to the mobile platform but the iOS version of the app really needs a redesign and major update.

I think using the same design as android would be great I they don't have enough time to completely redesign, and with that they could include the same features that the android version offers.

And while their at it, please make it for the iPhone 5 screen size?

I know this is a really small thing, but that should mean it's easy to implement!   One that I hate about the spotify iOS app is that it won't accept volume adjustments via the iphone buttons until after it's started playing a track.  This causes issues in a number of situations, but here's the most common/worst: I launch the app and I know that it's going to be far too loud for my headphones because I had it plugged into my receiver last night to enjoy some tunes, so I push the down volume button a dozen times once I launch it.  Then I start up a song.  I still get blasted at full volume when the song starts, because the app is not catching the down volume button events yet (if I look at the iPhone, I can see that I'm instead adjusting the default system ringer volume).  Once the song has started, I can adjust my volume down, but by then my ears are already ringing.  

Currently, you can search inside a playlist, which basically means filtering. But you can't do anything with the result but to start playback. The swipe gestures don't work and in the search result view, the "edit bar" is missing. So you cannot e.g. remove this certain track from the playlist.