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Monthly Ideas Review - October 2014

meahtenoha — Fri, 07 Nov 2014 13:11:47 GMT

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danaspoti — Fri, 07 Nov 2014 15:57:05 GMT

Spotify Family sounds like a great idea, definitely will keep an eye on this 🙂

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Peter__ — Fri, 07 Nov 2014 17:46:18 GMT

Super happy two big ideas got implemented this month, hoping this is the start of a trend of Spotify finally building big in demand features.

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kbrooksc — Sat, 08 Nov 2014 01:19:59 GMT

Great job implementing ideas! Spotify is listening folks! Keep speaking up in the Ideas Exchange.

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Andrews32 — Wed, 12 Nov 2014 03:35:13 GMT

Not that Meredith (or in fact any Spotify staff) reads or responds to these things, but the fact that you consider the Chromecast idea to be updated is an embarrassing joke. According to your own post, Meredith, "under consideration" means that the topic has been "discussed internally" at Spotify.

Do you want a pat on the back for finally bringing up internally something you ignored for more than 15 months and that was twice as requested as any other feature? That hundreds or thousands have quit because of Spotify's pitiful customer "support" surrounding the issue? That every one of your competitors has managed to flawlessly implement, as well as plenty of one-developer shops?

These self-congratulatory reviews are really sad. Or, as the New York Times called Spotify's PR response to Taylor Swift pulling her music, "desperate."

So, tell us how the update for Chromecast changes anything. There wasn't a single word in it that announced anything about whether Spotify was even considering implementing it, why it has ignored the thread for so long, or what the reason for the delay is. How much longer are you going to try and string along paying subscribers?

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laughingginger — Thu, 13 Nov 2014 21:50:14 GMT

What's sad here is that this company is not listening to its paying customers. I would gladly pay more than the $10 I am paying now in order to have the Chromecast feature enabled in Spotify, but its clear it isn't a priority for them. (Let me clarify..paying customers aren't a priority)

They would rather be in bed with some speaker company that is in a different market alltogether! Spotify users shouldnt have to have a Sonos to take advantage of streaming music to a set of speakers.

Let me ask you Spotify... Has Sonos been sending you subscribers or checks every month? I doubt that they are and whoever started that relationship should take a long hard look at what Spotify will be like if they just keep losing customers.

If they don't change their course after THOUSANDS of people leave the service for others in the market that have this feature then what hope is there for the rest of us??

My patience with Spotify is running thin and I am willing to look over the reasons I have stayed with Spotify for this long in favor of a service that ACTUALLY MEETS MY NEEDS AS A PAYING CUSTOMER...

I hope Spotify does the right thing and fixes this right away... It's pathetic...

Re: Monthly Ideas Review - October 2014

Jordi — Thu, 13 Nov 2014 22:02:17 GMT

Hi everyone,

The status of the ChromeCast idea has been set to "Under Consideration". This is means it is not on "Not Right now" anymore. This status means it does have been discussed internally and they are really listening.

Keep an eye on the ChromeCast idea to see any new updates. You might also want to read this here.

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Andrews32 — Sat, 15 Nov 2014 00:40:23 GMT

We know what it's been switched to and I clearly outlined why it's meaningless. They said for months before the switch that they had made the developers and managers aware of the community support. It's been "discussed internally" for more than a year. What they didn't do is answer a single question paying customers had about why it's taking so long, what kind of timeline we're looking at, or if they'll ever actually implement it.

You might also want to read here: http://community.spotify.com/t5/Spotify-Ideas/Kudos-System-Update-for-User-Ideas/idi-p/892879

That should give you a good idea why the link you provided (and this recap thread) is useless. Spotify only cares about ideas it can tout, not actually using customer suggestions to inform the work they do.

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cygnet — Wed, 19 Nov 2014 11:34:28 GMT

I can't see a genre/mood button for World music eg African, South American.

World music is a recognized genre so it would be great if Spotify had one.

Cheers

Sheila