Spotify Ideas

If I'm listening to Spotify on my phone while traveling (on the train for example) chances are I'm gonna go through areas with better 3G signal than others, inevitably there will be periods with no signal.

It would be great if Spotify could buffer the next few tunes in the play queue when its able to, that way I won't have to tolerate silence when I'm out of signal. I know I can make offline playlists but I don't have a huge amount of space and my playlists are pretty big.

Ideally this would work when Spotify is playing in shuffle mode aswell as normal.

Device: Iphone 5 (iOS 6.1.3)

Status: Spotify premium

Background Question:

For the playlist I synced, will it consume 3G data if I play the song in this playlist WITHOUT swithching to OFFLINE mode?

Feedback from 555michael said it does consume 3G, 15 minutes on 3G and used up 70Mb.

There are 2 ideas to this:

- program and set all synced music will be play from synced file (no 3G consumption)  on ONLINE mode

- setup the Offline mode button on the main menu e.g. below setting (currently, I need to tab 4 time to activate offline mode and tab 3 times to go back to playlist. This is so not friendly)

Hope the product become better

I often just glance over my activity feed when I am doing work, and see my friends listening to a whole variety of tracks. I think it would be a great idea, if you could go directly from the Activity Feed, to the location your friend is listening from so you can see what else they are listening to, or listen to the same thing.

Obviously, there is privacy concerns with this, so the "arrow" shown below should only be displayed when the person is listening to a public playlist or from an album/artist page (and they share their activity). It would be similar to the "Listen with" functionality when signed into Facebook, but would not be synchronized or require you to go to Facebook!

I would suggest something like a small arrow (this is as small as I could make it in pain) in each entry in the activity feed which would take you to the playlist/page the track is being played from:

^ My beloved brother, accent in Juliet Turner – I Hope That I Don't Fall In Love With You does make me laugh every time!

What do you guys thinks?

Peter

I fully understand the overall 10,000 song limit for offline use in Spotify across up to 3 devices, but I don't see why the limit must be divided amongst 3. It may seem like your providing a convenience for people with multiple devices, but it actually does the contrast. I would rather the 10,000 song limit not be divided to 3,333 for three devices, and instead have an overall 10,000 offline song limit for the entire account. This would make it much easier for people, such as myself, who only use one device.

Hi everyone, and if you're new here, welcome!

I noticed recently that if I start a song playing from in a folder of playlists, the folder name has a speaker next to it, but not the playlist within the folder that the song is in.

I.e.:

Perhaps Spotify can make it so a speaker is also shown next to the playlist in a folder that the song (in the folder) is playing from?

Just a thought!

Anthony :)

I have seen two other similar Ideas, one flagged as duplicate. Hopefully mine does not fall under that category as it supports the opposite idea/control at the same time. 

I would appreciate it Spotify would allow users to turn off edited content OR turn off explicit. I listen to a lot of Hip Hop and by Murphy's Law, seem to always pick the edited album. While other people have children and do not want to hear the F word around them. I believe we both can agree that it is very frustrating to play the version we don't want.

I think both Explicit On and Explicit Off could be solved simply.

Settings > Explicit Content

(bullet option) Turn Off Explicit Content

(bullet option) Turn Off Edited Content

Both bullets cannot be highlighted at same time and of course in the background it would have to work like:

When Explicit Content is turned off, it would never be played

When Edited is turned off, Explicit would be played unless Edited is the only option. 

Again, sorry if the moderators view this Idea as a duplicate, but I believe this would solve the problem for both parties.

Spotify has a limit on the number of tracks that can be added to a playlist which seems to be different for different people but comes close to 10,000 tracks. This is a very small number. Why can't significantly more tracks be added? Also Spotify does not notify the user when additional songs cannot be added and this means that some tracks can be added whilst others are not when adding more than one track. This becomes very confusing for the user.

Hi Spotify Community and Admins,

I am and have been an avid user of Spotify for the past several months. After the automatic charge today overdrafted my debit card, I am being forced to go on a spotify hiatus for a while due to the overdraft fee.

I'm not at all blaming Spotify subscription services for the overdraft (obviously that's my fault :p), but I would like to suggest an option to verify payment each month. So 3 days before the end of a subscription month, an email is sent to the user asking them to press a button that verifies they want to renew subscription. If they don't renew within those 3 days, the service is cut off until they respond to the email.

This way, people like me (e.g. college students whose bank account can fluctuate pretty heavily) can enjoy Spotify Premium with more peace of mind.

Thanks for listening :) -Jesse

Was looking to get a friend a spotifuggle Premium Subscription that uses Spotify a lot a premium subscription for their birthday but wasn't sure if they were already a Premium user or not and didn't want to ask or that would ruin the surprise. You can also include how long someone's been a Premium user for as a badge of honor as well to encourage people to get subscriptions as well as staying subscribers. 

I want to request a feature that shows me what I listened to on a calendar, possibly with some sort of graph next to it.

That way I could go back to a particular time in my life days, weeks, months or even years later and see what I listened to at that time.

Please note: Discovery is only in the rollout phase, so if you don't have it yet don't panic! It will come your way at some point in the future. 

This idea leads on from the inital discussion on this idea. 

Problem:

As it currently stands, discovery will recommend content to you that is already in your library (as well as new content). That is not discovery, since you have already "discovered" that content. 

Solution:

Discovery should scan your library, and not recommend anything which you have already "discovered". This could be taken one further, and scan your listening history too, just like last.fm does. When you got to the "Recommended for you" section of the Last.fm app, you don't get any content you have listened to before. That is discovery! 

Peter

The new activity feed is terrible, bring back the old one that shows what all my friends are listening too.

As I don't have an unlimited data allowance and space is limited on my phone I need to make playlists available offline when I want to listen to music out and about. 

I think it would be really useful if Spotify would tell you how much disk space a playlist will use before you download it. Then I could more easily manage what music I'm taking with me on the go.

If this would help you out too, please give it some kudos so it gets noticed.

Kind Regards.

The 'popularity' field doesn't really convey how popular a track really is. It be more useful to see a number there instead. 

Wikipedia is now almost the defacto standard in web encyclopedias. They have a page for nearly every music artist that ever gained any fame, together with discographys and song listings. You need to be there with hot links to Spotify's deep catalog and an invitation to get Spotify for those without the player/browser.

There is a huge amount of growth leverage in this assumption. Go for it! This is a freebee from me.

Best,

Herbert Vickers

Currently in Collaborative playlists, it is sometimes difficult to keep track of who is editing or making changes to a playlist. There are a whole heap of ideas already which deal with admin rights, and other editing controls. 

However, I think it would also be very handy to be able to see the "Top Contributors" and "Last Updated by" list in the header of the playlist like below:

Thoughts?

Peter

Hi all, me again with another idea ;)

I think Spotify should integrate into the Android ecosystem, and sync your followers profiles with your Android contacts/people list.

Thoughts?

Liam

  I've been on Spotify for a while - I remember when the only adds on Spotify were for Spotify with 'your add could be here', and they only came along every 20-30 minutes too.  Been 'unlimited' for over 2½ years, once the commercial adds started appearing almost between every track.

  I listen all day every day working from home and use the 'Related Artists' button a lot to find new music.

  Until the recent update the 'Related Artist' page was added into the history and a back from the new find sent me to the Related Artist page again i.e. :

    From 'Black Sabbath' artist/overview page add album to playlist and click 'Related Artist' and get a new band list.

    Click 'Ozzy Osbourne' from related page to get that artist/overview page, browse/add an album to play list etc

    Click back - return to the 'Related Artists' page of Black Sabbath to see other recommendations

    Click new band, browse, add to playlist, click back to go to related page

    etc etc

  Now the 'back' action returns to the artist page you took the related artist list from so for the above it would be :

    From 'Black Sabbath' artist/overview page add album to playlist and click 'Related Artist' and get a new band list.

    Click 'Ozzy Osbourne' from related page to get that artist/overview page, browse/add an album to play list etc

    Click back - return to 'Black Sabbath' artist/overview page and click 'Related Artists' and get a new band list again

    Click new band, browse, add to playlist, click back to go to artist page, click 'Related Artists' to go forward again

    etc etc

JM

N.B.: I don't count the 'Sabbath -> Ozzy really finding new music but it gets the sequence across :o)