topic Re: Unable to cut / paste below songs. in Desktop (Windows)

Unable to cut / paste below songs.

user-removed — Sun, 11 Apr 2021 09:13:54 GMT

Plan

Free

Operating System

Windows

My Question or Issue

As I've stated in the title, I am having trouble understanding why would you remove a feature with the UI update? I was able to cut songs with CTRL + X, then click on a song once with the left click and paste the copied/cut song below the selected one. Now I can only copy and it doesn't matter if I select a song, it will always be pasted last in the list. I like my playlists with custom order and now it's much more cancerous to edit playlists. I'd like that feature back, please. Thank you.

Re: Unable to cut / paste below songs.

ohjonkeat — Sun, 11 Apr 2021 11:45:14 GMT

Yes same issue. This needs to be rectified.

Re: Unable to cut / paste below songs.

Bobkatt2000 — Sun, 11 Apr 2021 16:09:31 GMT

I'm having the same issue, which seemed to pop up after the upgrade to 1.1.56.595.g2d2da0de-a. Do we know if Spotify is aware, and what they're doing about it? I'll try to contact them and update on the progress (assuming I get any).

Re: Unable to cut / paste below songs.

_arakasi_ — Mon, 12 Apr 2021 22:02:04 GMT

I have the same issue, it is very annoying. To put the songs where I want them to be I need to do an endless drag and drop. I'm generally not happy with this upgrade.

Re: Unable to cut / paste below songs.

Mihail — Tue, 13 Apr 2021 11:54:37 GMT

Hey folks,

Thanks for reaching out.

We've reported this to the right folks who are taking a closer look into this. Although we're unable to set an exact timeframe for a fix, we recommend that you keep the app updated with the latest version. That way you can make use of all fixes and improvements as soon as they're available.

We invite you to post any other remarks you may have on the new design in this thread where it's being heavily discussed. We regularly monitor it and pass on your thoughts to the relevant team.

Hope you find this useful. Keep us posted if you have any questions.

Re: Unable to cut / paste below songs.

Bobkatt2000 — Tue, 13 Apr 2021 13:21:46 GMT

Trust me, Mihail, I'm following that thread. One contributor gave a helpful response though, and could help the OP of this thread.

KatsPurr's suggested adding ui.experience_override="classic" to the prefs file (located in C:\Users\<yourusername>\AppData\Roaming), and I confirmed this works with the current version, presently 1.1.56.595. Of course, I worry the developers will remove this option before the issues with the new version are fixed.

The support staff really need to know about this, since I reached out to Twitter @SupportCares and the online chat, and neither provided this as an option when I asked about rolling back the version!!!

What I find really interesting is that after enabling that setting, the CTRL + X, C and V (Cut, Copy and Paste) commands are working again! This will placate me for now, and better than finding an older version on some other website.

Re: Unable to cut / paste below songs.

_arakasi_ — Tue, 13 Apr 2021 14:05:11 GMT

Thanks a lot Bobkatt2000, that does work!

Re: Unable to cut / paste below songs.

Arikabeth — Thu, 02 Dec 2021 15:43:25 GMT

With the ui.experience_override="classic" solution no longer working, I hope we'll get a fix to the issue with cut not working without having to wait too many years for the fix.

Re: Unable to cut / paste below songs.

beasita — Sun, 12 Dec 2021 14:09:19 GMT

please fix this jesus christ i can't stand having to drag songs in long playlists i've been thinking of migrating to another streaming service just because of this problem

Re: Unable to cut / paste below songs.

YoavKatz — Wed, 29 Dec 2021 16:03:39 GMT

I've wanted to move 3 songs in playlist. I had to go to the web version (since PC version won't even let you drag) and manually drag each one of them up about 1500 songs above! Then I visit here, seeing this is an issue going for 8 months. Come on you guys this is ridiculous.

Re: Unable to cut / paste below songs.

krstnh — Sun, 09 Jan 2022 00:49:44 GMT

I came here after noticing that not only is cut/copy and paste still not working but I can't even do the extremely tedious task of dragging my songs around on my playlist anymore. How did it get worse?

Re: Unable to cut / paste below songs.

Arikabeth — Sun, 09 Jan 2022 14:15:31 GMT

Copy still work, so you can Copy (Ctrl+C) + Delete, to replicate the functionality of Cut, and then Paste (Ctrl+V) so you don't need to drag, but cut still doesn't work.