topic Re: Windows: Playlist limited to 50 tracks in Desktop (Windows)

Windows: Playlist limited to 50 tracks

jpinto0 — Mon, 28 Jun 2021 09:19:31 GMT

Plan

Premium

Country

Portugal

Device

Laptop

Operating System

Windows 10

My Question or Issue

I can't add more than 50 tracks to a playlist on Windows. This works fine on Android.

Take, for example, this album that contains 58 tracks: https://open.spotify.com/album/7odmrjitR8PW3zbxzAr5Ii?si=jIiiZCLNS3KQG5aZNwGuDA&dl_branch=1

If I click on three dots, then "Add to Playlist", and "New Playlist", when I check the just created playlist, it contains only the first 50 songs of the album, the final 8 were left out.

If I try the same on my Samsung Galaxy S6 phone, all 58 tracks are copied to the playlist, so this is a problem only on Windows.

I have uninstalled Spotify, downloaded from your site and installed again, and the issue persists, even with the latest version.

Please fix this asap, as it is annoying.

Thanks

Re: Windows: Playlist limited to 50 tracks

dinomight — Mon, 28 Jun 2021 17:35:36 GMT

Hey @jpinto0, thanks for sharing. I've edited my reply because after my initial post, I actually managed to replicate the behavior you mentioned. Instead of clicking the three dot menu at the top of the album, if you'll click on a track from the album, and then use the keyboard shortcut "ctrl + a" to select all of the tracks or go to the top left three dot menu in the app, and then click "edit > select all" you should be able to add all of the tracks to a playlist. You can either drag them onto a playlist in your left hand side bar, or right click and use the context menu to "add to playlist."

Re: Windows: Playlist limited to 50 tracks

jpinto0 — Tue, 29 Jun 2021 07:16:45 GMT

Thanks for your reply.

Yes, the workaround works, and will have to do it for now.

Anyway, this is a bug in the Windows app and it was broken sometime ago since I was able to add more than 50 tracks to a playlist in the past using the "Add to playlist" option.

There is no reason to truncate the playlist to 50 tracks and this does not happen on other platforms (Android / iOS).

Can this be reported to Spotify development and fixed, please?

Thanks

Re: Windows: Playlist limited to 50 tracks

Mihail — Tue, 29 Jun 2021 14:03:41 GMT

Hey @jpinto0,

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