topic Re: Bulk move playlist to folder? in Desktop (Windows)

Bulk move playlist to folder?

Wardco — Sat, 16 Mar 2019 16:56:24 GMT

Plan

Premium

Country

USA

Device

Desktop

Operating System

Windows 10

My Question or Issue: Is there a way to bulk move playlist to a folder? I know how to move one playlist at a time. I thought maybe there is a Spotify folder I can do this in.

Thanks

Re: Bulk move playlist to folder?

OneByBoo — Sat, 16 Mar 2019 20:25:01 GMT

Hey there @Wardco,

thanks for posting in the community !

I really want to help but struggling a bit with understanding what you mean exactly.

Reply back to the post and i'll do my best to help 😃

Re: Bulk move playlist to folder?

RickM — Sun, 22 Sep 2019 19:12:28 GMT

I realise this is a few months old now but it's pretty clear I think:

- Desktop app (not mobile - no sane person attempts to manage playlists on the mobile app, its awful at it)
- Imagine you have a sidebar with say 200 playlists.
- Imagine you want to organise them
- You create a folder, say.... "Work Playlists" and want to move 30 of those 200 playlists into that folder.

Current (horrible) way of doing it:
- Drag each playlist one by one uuuup the sidebar, hoping the scroll bar doesnt freakout on you and shoot you past your new folder.
- Drop the playlist
- Find the next one in your big long list
- Repeat the above.

If you use Spotify in a serious way you'll get how horribly frustrating playlist management is.

Desired Action:
- Click 'Manage Playlists' somewhere
- Create the new folder
- Check the boxes next to each playlist you want to move
- From an 'Actions' dropdown, go to "Move to..." which when you hover over shows a list of folders.

Given you guys seem to only employ 1 part time developer these days I'm going to assume much like every other suggestion on the forums that this will never happen.

Re: Bulk move playlist to folder?

peterzed — Tue, 31 Dec 2019 02:36:03 GMT

Good sensible observation, thank you, I would like the same functionality you suggested, makes perfect sense! Also, once you move a playlist into a folder, and later want to move it to a different folder... good luck with that (impossible)!! Music library management in Spotify is like using something from the late 90's (and that's being kind).

Re: Bulk move playlist to folder?

dinomight — Tue, 31 Dec 2019 18:44:08 GMT

Hey everyone, thanks for your posts on this! I'd recommend creating an idea here if this is something you'd like to see implemented in Spotify in the future. I notice similar ideas have been posted in the past but did not gain too much traction and are currently inactive, so it could be worth a try!

Re: Bulk move playlist to folder?

Katerina — Tue, 28 Jan 2020 09:38:36 GMT

Hey there @Wardco, @RickM and @peterzed,

Thanks for sharing your feedback here in the Community!

As @dinomight mentioned, the best place to add your feedback or suggest a new feature is our Ideas Exchange.

In this case, the option to select and move multiple playlists at once has already been suggested here - we'd recommend adding your +VOTE and feedback there to show your support.

If you're curious about how your feedback reaches Spotify, we'd suggest taking a look at this Spotify Answer.

Hope this is info is useful but don't hesitate to give us a shout if there's anything else we can help with.

Have a lovely day 🙂

Re: Bulk move playlist to folder?

RickM — Thu, 04 Nov 2021 15:05:06 GMT

Why bother? you dont listen to the community at all and just copy/paste the same "Hey go click upvote on this 10 year old issue", like its going to have any kind of impact.

Re: Bulk move playlist to folder?

phaedrix — Wed, 02 Mar 2022 20:43:30 GMT

This is kind of hilarious since going to that link results in an Access Denied.
i.e. posting this here was actually the correct thing to do...

I found a sort-of hack for this:
1. This only works if the playlists you want to move have a shared keyword
2. Do a general search for e.g. "Chill"
3. In the search results go to playlists and all _your_ chill playlists should show up first'ish.
4. Drag any playlists you want over to the playlist folder