topic Re: [Web Player] Rearrange Playlists in Other (Podcasts, Partners, etc.)

[Web Player] Rearrange Playlists

coryrowens — Mon, 22 Oct 2018 17:49:22 GMT

Plan

Premium

Country

USA

Device

Any (Web Player)

Operating System

Any (Web Player)

My Question or Issue

The web Player for Spotify will not let you rearrange playlists in the library, ~~or tracks within playlists~~. When you drag an item, the "link" icon appears, and it is apparent that it is dragging a link reference, rather than the UI object itself. If you "drop" the item in a text field in another application, it will produce a text link to the item. Normally, one could use the desktop client for this functionality, but the Linux client has the same issue. (I suspect this is an artifact of the web player, which would imply that the Linux client is just the web player ported to Linux with something like Electron.) It is currently unfeasible to curate one's library ~~or playlists~~ without this functionality. This functionality is available in the Windows client, so this request is for feature parity between platforms.

EDIT: Realized that the web player does allow you to rearrange tracks within playlists, but it still does not allow you to rearrange playlists within your library.

Re: [Web Player] Rearrange Playlists

HowardMarks — Mon, 22 Oct 2018 17:41:08 GMT

this has a very easy solution... change the playlists order, when you open your playlist you will probably see a little green arrow next to the sorting titles..."TITLE / ARTIST / ALBUM / DATE) turn the green icon off my double clicking the sort title selected...

Once you do that you can rearrange the songs in that playlist in any order you choose by dragging and dropping!

hope this helps 😉

Re: [Web Player] Rearrange Playlists

coryrowens — Mon, 22 Oct 2018 17:56:36 GMT

I'm afraid that is incorrect. In the web player, there are no columns to sort the tracks.

I know the green arrow you are talking about, and it only appears on the desktop client.

That said, I realized the web app does let you rearrange tracks within the playlist, but it does not let you rearrange playlists within the library. I have edited the original post to reflect this.

Re: [Web Player] Rearrange Playlists

HowardMarks — Mon, 22 Oct 2018 18:00:02 GMT

darn! have you tried to change your user interface settings on spotify to see if you can display menu settings?

Re: [Web Player] Rearrange Playlists

coryrowens — Mon, 22 Oct 2018 18:08:58 GMT

No such luck. The only options in the profile in the web player are "View Account", "Full Website", "Help", and "Log Out"

"View Account" takes you to https://www.spotify.com/us/account/overview/.

"Full Website" takes you to https://www.spotify.com/.

"Help" takes you to https://support.spotify.com/us/.

And "Log Out" obviously logs you out, which would be no help.

Re: [Web Player] Rearrange Playlists

HowardMarks — Mon, 22 Oct 2018 18:49:49 GMT

Can you adjust the Spotifys Layout? user display settings?

Re: [Web Player] Rearrange Playlists

coryrowens — Mon, 22 Oct 2018 19:18:58 GMT

Like I just said, there are no user display settings in the web player.