article Yearly Ideas Review: 2015 in The Blog Vault https://community.spotify.com/t5/The-Blog-Vault/Yearly-Ideas-Review-2015/ba-p/1271644 <P><STRONG><SPAN style="font-size: 40px; color: #0f1113; weight: bold;">We Spent 2015 Building Your Ideas. &nbsp;</SPAN></STRONG></P> <DIV id="1sthalf" style="width: 325px; float: left; margin: 25px;"><BR /> <P><STRONG>In 2015 you all submitted over 2,100 ideas.</STRONG>&nbsp;</P> <P>&nbsp;</P> <P>We spent a lot of time bringing this feedback to teams and building the features you suggested. We brought your most requested feature--Spotify on Chromecast. Spotify also made it's way to PlayStation 4 and BMW. We built a new way to Run. We helped you DJ your party. And so much more.&nbsp;</P> <P>&nbsp;</P> <P>Thanks to your continued feedback, we improved Spotify. Here's a few highlights of what we delievered for you in 2015.</P> <P>&nbsp;&nbsp;</P> <H1>&nbsp;</H1> <P>&nbsp;</P> <H1>WE FILLED YOUR HOME &amp; CAR WITH MUSIC</H1> <P>&nbsp;</P> <P>&nbsp;&nbsp;</P> <SPAN style="font-size: 16px; line-height: 19.2px;"><STRONG><A href="https://community.spotify.com/t5/Live-Ideas/Add-support-for-Google-ChromeCast/idi-p/482900" target="_self">Add support for Google Chromecast</A>.</STRONG></SPAN><BR /> <P>&nbsp;</P> <H1><SPAN><SPAN style="font-size: 12pt;"><A href="https://community.spotify.com/t5/Live-Ideas/Support-Google-Cast-for-Audio/idi-p/1008382" target="_self">Support Google Cast For Audio</A>.</SPAN></SPAN></H1> <P>&nbsp;</P> <IFRAME src="https://player.vimeo.com/video/143256102" width="320" height="281" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen="allowfullscreen" webkitallowfullscreen="webkitallowfullscreen" mozallowfullscreen="mozallowfullscreen"></IFRAME> <H1><SPAN><SPAN style="font-size: 12pt;"><A href="http://community.spotify.com/t5/Spotify-Ideas/PS4-App/idi-p/573940" target="_self">PlayStation 4 app</A>.</SPAN></SPAN></H1> <P>&nbsp;</P> <P><SPAN><SPAN style="font-size: 12pt;"><IMG src="https://community.spotify.com/t5/image/serverpage/image-id/32539i38D75BA562B682D0/image-size/medium?v=mpbl-1&amp;px=-1" border="0" alt="playstation.jpeg" title="playstation.jpeg" /></SPAN></SPAN></P> <P>&nbsp;</P> <P>&nbsp;</P> <H1><SPAN style="font-size: 16px; line-height: 19.2px;"><A href="https://community.spotify.com/t5/Implemented-Ideas/Improve-the-Spotify-experience-on-Sonos/idi-p/1038544" target="_self">Improve the Spotify experience on Sonos</A>.</SPAN></H1> <P>&nbsp;</P> <P><IMG src="https://community.spotify.com/t5/image/serverpage/image-id/31031iEE7B34778866730A/image-size/original?v=mpbl-1&amp;px=-1" border="0" alt="sonos gif.gif" title="sonos gif.gif" /></P> <H1><SPAN><SPAN style="font-size: 12pt;"><A href="https://community.spotify.com/t5/Live-Ideas/Integration-of-Spotify-and-BMW-Connected-Drive/idi-p/1101" target="_self">Integration of Spotify and BMW Connected Drive</A>.</SPAN></SPAN></H1> <P>&nbsp;</P> <H1>WE IMPROVED YOUR MUSIC</H1> <P>&nbsp;</P> <P>&nbsp;</P> <SPAN style="font-size: 16px; line-height: 19.2px;"><STRONG><A href="http://community.spotify.com/t5/Spotify-Ideas/Ability-to-make-quot-Your-Music-quot-offline/idi-p/732145" target="_self">Ability to make "Your Music" offline</A>.</STRONG></SPAN><BR /> <P>&nbsp;</P> <SPAN style="font-size: 16px; line-height: 19.2px;"><STRONG><A href="http://community.spotify.com/t5/Spotify-Ideas/Way-to-prevent-duplicates-in-playlists/idc-p/541750" target="_self">Way to prevent duplicates in playlists</A>.</STRONG></SPAN><BR /> <P><STRONG>&nbsp;</STRONG></P> <SPAN style="font-size: 16px; line-height: 19.2px;"><STRONG><A href="https://community.spotify.com/t5/Live-Ideas/Sorting-playlists-iOS/idi-p/566476" target="_self">Sorting playlists in iOS devices</A>.</STRONG></SPAN><BR /> <P><STRONG>&nbsp;</STRONG></P> <SPAN style="font-size: 16px; line-height: 19.2px;"><STRONG><A href="https://community.spotify.com/t5/Live-Ideas/Remove-Starred-playlist-not-useful-anymore/idi-p/720153" target="_self">Remove Starred playlists</A>.</STRONG></SPAN> <P>&nbsp;</P> <P><SPAN>&nbsp;</SPAN></P> <H1>&nbsp;</H1> <P>&nbsp;</P> <P>&nbsp;</P> <P>&nbsp;</P> <P>&nbsp;</P> <H1>&nbsp;</H1> <BR /> <P>&nbsp;</P> <P>&nbsp;</P> <P>&nbsp;</P> <H1>&nbsp;</H1> <P><SPAN style="font-size: medium;">&nbsp;</SPAN></P> <P>&nbsp;</P> <P>&nbsp;</P> <BR /> <P>&nbsp;</P> <P class="p1">&nbsp;</P> <P>&nbsp;&nbsp;</P> &nbsp;</DIV> <H1>&nbsp;</H1> <H1>&nbsp;</H1> <P>&nbsp;</P> <H1>&nbsp;</H1> <H1>&nbsp;</H1> <H1>&nbsp;</H1> <H1>&nbsp;</H1> <H1>&nbsp;</H1> <H1>&nbsp;</H1> <H1>&nbsp;</H1> <H1>&nbsp;</H1> <H1>WE IMPROVED THE DESKTOP APP&nbsp;</H1> <P>&nbsp;</P> <H1><SPAN><SPAN style="font-size: 12pt;"><A href="https://community.spotify.com/t5/Spotify-Ideas/FOLLOW-artist-from-Mobile-app/idi-p/472962" target="_self">Remember "Sorted by" Settings in Desktop&nbsp;</A></SPAN></SPAN></H1> <P>&nbsp;</P> <H1><SPAN><SPAN style="font-size: 12pt;"><A href="https://community.spotify.com/t5/Implemented-Ideas/Quick-access-to-play-queue/idi-p/639640" target="_self">Quick access to play queue</A>.</SPAN></SPAN></H1> <P>&nbsp;</P> <H1><SPAN><SPAN style="font-size: 12pt;"><A href="https://community.spotify.com/t5/Live-Ideas/Keep-the-Playlist-Album-Header-at-the-Top-of-the-Page/idi-p/764951" target="_self">Keep the playlist/ album header at the top of the page</A>.</SPAN></SPAN></H1> <P>&nbsp;</P> <H1><SPAN><SPAN style="font-size: 12pt;"><A href="https://community.spotify.com/t5/Live-Ideas/More-quot-top-hits-quot-5-is-not-enough/idi-p/138848" target="_self">View more 'Top Hits'.</A></SPAN></SPAN></H1> <P>&nbsp;</P> <P>&nbsp;</P> <H1>WE&nbsp;HEARD YOUR MOBILE&nbsp;REQUESTS</H1> <P>&nbsp;</P> <H1><SPAN><SPAN style="font-size: 12pt;"><A href="https://community.spotify.com/t5/Implemented-Ideas/iOS-Rename-playlists/idi-p/812727" target="_self">Rename playlists on iOS</A>.</SPAN></SPAN></H1> <P>&nbsp;</P> <P><STRONG><SPAN style="font-size: 12pt;"><A href="https://community.spotify.com/t5/Live-Ideas/Shuffle-all-music-on-mobile-device/idi-p/20663" target="_self">Shuffle all music on mobile device</A>.</SPAN></STRONG></P> <P>&nbsp;</P> <P><STRONG><SPAN style="font-size: 12pt;"><A href="http://community.spotify.com/t5/Spotify-Ideas/Sort-and-filter-tracks-inside-a-playlist-on-iPhone/idc-p/590044" target="_self">Sort and filter tracks inside a playlist on iOS</A>.</SPAN></STRONG></P> <P>&nbsp;</P> <H1><STRONG><SPAN style="font-size: 12pt;"><A href="http://community.spotify.com/t5/Spotify-Ideas/Bring-the-WP8-app-to-feature-parity-with-Ios-and-Android/idc-p/344372/highlight/true" target="_self">Bring the WP8 app to feature parity with iOS and Android</A></SPAN></STRONG><STRONG><SPAN style="font-size: 12pt;">.</SPAN></STRONG></H1> <P>&nbsp;</P> <H1>AND MUCH MORE IN BETWEEN</H1> <P>&nbsp;</P> <P>&nbsp;</P> <H1><SPAN style="font-size: 16px; line-height: 19.2px;"><A href="http://community.spotify.com/t5/Spotify-Ideas/Starting-a-radio-plays-song-you-choose-as-base/idc-p/316994/highlight/true" target="_self">Starting a Radio station plays the song you choose as a base</A>.</SPAN></H1> <P>&nbsp;</P> <P><STRONG><SPAN style="font-size: 16px; line-height: 19.2px;"><A href="https://community.spotify.com/t5/Live-Ideas/Nike/idi-p/71963" target="_self">Nike+</A>.</SPAN></STRONG></P> <P><IFRAME src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/0fZBqV_yMq4" width="300" height="315" frameborder="0"></IFRAME></P> <P>&nbsp;</P> <P><STRONG><SPAN style="font-size: 16px; line-height: 19.2px;"><A href="https://community.spotify.com/t5/Live-Ideas/Podcasts-Please-Help-me-move-completely-off-of-iTunes/idi-p/21457" target="_self">Podcasts, help move move completely off iTunes</A>.</SPAN></STRONG></P> <P>&nbsp;</P> <P><IFRAME src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/sMGwPYGPEJs" width="300" height="315" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen="allowfullscreen"></IFRAME></P> <P>&nbsp;</P> <P><STRONG><SPAN style="font-size: 16px; line-height: 19.2px;"><A href="https://community.spotify.com/t5/Live-Ideas/Show-cover-karaoke-bands-after-originals/idi-p/170368" target="_self">Show cover/ karaoke bands after the original</A>.</SPAN></STRONG></P> <P>&nbsp;</P> <P><STRONG><SPAN style="font-size: 16px; line-height: 19.2px;"><A href="https://community.spotify.com/t5/Live-Ideas/Improved-UX-for-Android-Wear/idi-p/848471" target="_self">Improved UX for Android Wear</A>.&nbsp;</SPAN></STRONG></P> <P>&nbsp;</P> <P><STRONG><SPAN style="font-size: 16px; line-height: 19.2px;"><A href="https://community.spotify.com/t5/Live-Ideas/Better-Search-Engine/idi-p/75603" target="_self">Better Search within Spotify</A>.</SPAN></STRONG></P> <P>&nbsp;</P> <P><STRONG><SPAN style="font-size: 16px; line-height: 19.2px;"><A href="https://community.spotify.com/t5/Implemented-Ideas/Support-IFTTT-to-allow-amazing-connectivity/idi-p/836273" target="_self">Support IFTTT for amazing connectivity</A>.</SPAN></STRONG></P> <P>&nbsp;</P> <H1>THANK YOU ROCK STARS</H1> <P dir="ltr">&nbsp;</P> <P>With almost 5,000 unique ideas in the Community and more coming in everyday--keeping your feedback organized and up-to-date is a large part of the Community team's focus.&nbsp;</P> <P>&nbsp;</P> <P>The Idea Guardians in the Rock Star Program that help us are essential to getting your feedback straight to the folks at Spotfiy that build your requests.&nbsp;</P> <P>&nbsp;</P> <P>If you voted for one of the above implemented&nbsp;ideas you also have these guys to thank, especially&nbsp;<a href="https://community.spotify.com/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/214770">@Marco</a>,&nbsp;<a href="https://community.spotify.com/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/650552">@blake</a>&nbsp;and <A href="https://community.spotify.com/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/199854" target="_self">@Fred</A>.&nbsp;</P> <P>&nbsp;</P> <P>&nbsp;</P> <P>&nbsp;</P> <P>&nbsp;</P> <P>&nbsp;</P> <P><IMG style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 1.2;" src="https://community.spotify.com/t5/image/serverpage/image-id/15286iCEFE136AFD33D4C8/image-size/original?v=mpbl-1&amp;px=-1" border="0" alt="spotify-footer.png" title="spotify-footer.png" align="middle" /></P> <P>&nbsp;</P> <P>&nbsp;</P> Mon, 11 Jan 2016 13:03:19 GMT meahtenoha 2016-01-11T13:03:19Z Yearly Ideas Review: 2015 https://community.spotify.com/t5/The-Blog-Vault/Yearly-Ideas-Review-2015/ba-p/1271644 <P><IMG src="https://community.spotify.com/t5/image/serverpage/image-id/26785iD6E188D2717AB9C0/image-size/original?v=mpbl-1&amp;px=-1" border="0" alt="monthly-ideas-review2.png" title="monthly-ideas-review2.png" /></P> Mon, 11 Jan 2016 13:03:19 GMT https://community.spotify.com/t5/The-Blog-Vault/Yearly-Ideas-Review-2015/ba-p/1271644 meahtenoha 2016-01-11T13:03:19Z Re: Yearly Ideas Review: 2015 https://community.spotify.com/t5/The-Blog-Vault/Yearly-Ideas-Review-2015/bc-p/1271651#M1778 <P>Those are quite a lot ideas that have been implemented this year!<BR />Also great to see so many popular requests like Chromecast or Duplicate Preventer been implemented.<BR /><BR />Looking forward to what Spotify will build in 2016! <span class="lia-unicode-emoji" title=":slightly_smiling_face:">🙂</span></P> Mon, 11 Jan 2016 12:39:56 GMT https://community.spotify.com/t5/The-Blog-Vault/Yearly-Ideas-Review-2015/bc-p/1271651#M1778 Marco 2016-01-11T12:39:56Z Re: Yearly Ideas Review: 2015 https://community.spotify.com/t5/The-Blog-Vault/Yearly-Ideas-Review-2015/bc-p/1271654#M1779 <P>I hope they build this&nbsp;<A href="https://community.spotify.com/t5/Live-Ideas/All-Platforms-Use-Opus-codec-instead-of-OGG-Vorbis/idi-p/1207548" target="_blank">https://community.spotify.com/t5/Live-Ideas/All-Platforms-Use-Opus-codec-instead-of-OGG-Vorbis/idi-p/1207548</A></P> <P>&nbsp;</P> <P>Please............</P> Mon, 11 Jan 2016 12:46:17 GMT https://community.spotify.com/t5/The-Blog-Vault/Yearly-Ideas-Review-2015/bc-p/1271654#M1779 user-removed 2016-01-11T12:46:17Z Re: Yearly Ideas Review: 2015 https://community.spotify.com/t5/The-Blog-Vault/Yearly-Ideas-Review-2015/bc-p/1271693#M1780 <P>It was a great year!</P> Mon, 11 Jan 2016 14:09:19 GMT https://community.spotify.com/t5/The-Blog-Vault/Yearly-Ideas-Review-2015/bc-p/1271693#M1780 OviiiOne 2016-01-11T14:09:19Z Re: Yearly Ideas Review: 2015 https://community.spotify.com/t5/The-Blog-Vault/Yearly-Ideas-Review-2015/bc-p/1271700#M1781 <P>That's a lot of implemented ideas! GJ developers! <span class="lia-unicode-emoji" title=":slightly_smiling_face:">🙂</span></P> Mon, 11 Jan 2016 14:24:36 GMT https://community.spotify.com/t5/The-Blog-Vault/Yearly-Ideas-Review-2015/bc-p/1271700#M1781 blake 2016-01-11T14:24:36Z Re: Yearly Ideas Review: 2015 https://community.spotify.com/t5/The-Blog-Vault/Yearly-Ideas-Review-2015/bc-p/1283981#M1782 <P>Would be great to get the Playlist Notification symbol back.</P> Mon, 01 Feb 2016 23:06:33 GMT https://community.spotify.com/t5/The-Blog-Vault/Yearly-Ideas-Review-2015/bc-p/1283981#M1782 jrz910 2016-02-01T23:06:33Z