topic Re: playlist filter isn't working properly in Desktop (Windows)

playlist filter isn't working properly

Reican — Sun, 05 May 2019 15:11:51 GMT

I just got a problem with the filter in my playlists after the latest update, when I now search up an artist I have on spotify, it does find the songs on that artist, but when I play one song and expect it to change to another song by the same artist, it will instead play as if it's not filtered.

Example: I searched up Sonata arctica, and then started a song, set it on random and expected it to change to another SA song afterwards. but instead it started playing "hit the road Jack" which isn't even among the filtered results on the playlist.

I didn't use to have this problem before. Did you change the way the filter works so that I have to make dozens of playlists for each artist now and waste time? or is it a bug?

Re: playlist filter isn't working properly

shelaffs — Mon, 06 May 2019 15:18:48 GMT

I'm having the same issue here among a myriad of other issues that popped up for me in the past week. I've been working with spotify support through twitter but so far the only fix is reinstalling the app, which fixes the issues until I close and restart the app.

Re: playlist filter isn't working properly

Reican — Fri, 10 May 2019 17:11:00 GMT

Sounds like a UI/settings bug.

Shame they have yet to offer a permanent solution to it other than reinstalling the app as well as every song every time you wanna use it.

Re: playlist filter isn't working properly

Narmerguy — Wed, 07 Aug 2019 05:58:38 GMT

Yeah I reinstalled and it worked briefly and then stopped. It feels like it's been over a year that this problem has been going on, and I'm shocked that they haven't fixed this. I feel like the spotify app is constantly in a state of trying to recover all the stable features that it used to have 2-3 years ago. I'm perplexed why their engineers keep messing with it.

Re: playlist filter isn't working properly

ftanderson08 — Sat, 07 Sep 2019 15:30:16 GMT

Agreed on all fronts. It is incredibly basic, and should be fixed. I was online with a customer service rep for like 30 min answering their questions, and then guess what happened?

Nothing

Re: playlist filter isn't working properly

empw — Wed, 02 Oct 2019 17:32:58 GMT

Still having this issue.

Re: playlist filter isn't working properly

M4n0x — Sat, 23 Nov 2019 21:46:39 GMT

Same issue here...

Re: playlist filter isn't working properly

StigCzar — Sun, 24 Nov 2019 19:34:01 GMT

I'm having the same issue on both desktop and Android. Tried reinstalling on both and still nothing happened.

Re: playlist filter isn't working properly

big_oof — Mon, 25 Nov 2019 21:56:03 GMT

I started experiencing this recently and it's beyond frustrating. Since they decided to take the artists away, I was happy that I could at least still search and listen to individual artists in my Songs, but it seems they might be taking away this functionality, too.

Re: playlist filter isn't working properly

hasif9393 — Tue, 26 Nov 2019 10:44:18 GMT

I just updated today and started experiencing this same issue. It is driving me crazy.

Re: playlist filter isn't working properly

louscheer — Fri, 06 Dec 2019 11:48:26 GMT

I’m also having this issue...... I’m seriously about to switch back to Apple Music at this point.

Re: playlist filter isn't working properly

Kamidoga — Sun, 08 Dec 2019 19:36:50 GMT

I'm having the same problem. Been going on for weeks now.It's very annoying and halway making me want to stop paying for it. Like the frustration itself. I could go back to my old methods of listening to music that didn't have this restriction.

Re: playlist filter isn't working properly

yuyokk — Sat, 14 Dec 2019 10:59:43 GMT

Same for me. Does not work on both iphone/desktop. Crazy annoying bug 😞

Hey there everyone, Thanks for posting about this here...

Katerina — Tue, 17 Dec 2019 09:36:24 GMT

Hey there everyone,

Thanks for posting about this here in the Community!

If you're having troubles listening to the next song displaying after filtering a list, we'd recommend taking a look here for more information, as well as trying the workaround provided.

Hope this helps clarify things! Don't hesitate to give us a shout if there's anything else we can help with - we'll be happy to lend a hand.

Have a lovely day 🙂