topic Re: New Playlist Name Now Not Auto Filled in Android

New Playlist Name Now Not Auto Filled

Eddy555 — Mon, 05 Feb 2018 13:53:14 GMT

The Android app used to be great for creating a playlist for an album.

I could create a new playlist in a folder and it would automatically add the band and album name into the new name for the playlist.

Now it's just empty with the new Create Playlist workflow.

Can you update this so it saves a bit of messing about entering information that it used to do please?

Re: New Playlist Name Now Not Auto Filled

mattlantis — Mon, 05 Feb 2018 15:37:18 GMT

Ditto. Please bring this back.

Re: New Playlist Name Now Not Auto Filled

newbornlee — Wed, 14 Feb 2018 20:33:17 GMT

Such a small yet irritating change.

Re: New Playlist Name Now Not Auto Filled

Bluet — Tue, 27 Feb 2018 05:33:20 GMT

Agree, a total pain. AndoidA only it seems to name automatically on my iOS device no problem.

Re: New Playlist Name Now Not Auto Filled

kwizfreak — Wed, 28 Feb 2018 17:18:34 GMT

Same problem, please repport 🙂

I love to create a playlist directly from an album but now i need to write the artist - album because the playlist name is empty ...

Re: New Playlist Name Now Not Auto Filled

arissarox — Wed, 07 Mar 2018 18:40:48 GMT

I thought I was going crazy when I lost this feature. I kept closing the app and even tried a reboot. I must also reiterate what the others are saying, please bring the auto-fill option back. It's much easier to delete what's auto-filled if I want to name it something different than type in the default playlist name that used to be provided. It has prevented me from creating new playlists on the fly-- and then I forget about it later.

Please, I love Spotify and I've been a loyal premium subscriber for many years. Fix this for us. Thank you!

Re: New Playlist Name Now Not Auto Filled

smess1210 — Tue, 13 Mar 2018 20:02:50 GMT

Me too, please fix this......

Re: New Playlist Name Now Not Auto Filled

Eigertje — Fri, 16 Mar 2018 07:54:49 GMT

What an annoying 'new feature' on android. Why do I need to type the artist and album name myself when adding a new album as playlist?

Who would like to add 'Sparklehorse - vivadixiesubmarinetransmissionplot' now.

Please fix this!

Re: New Playlist Name Now Not Auto Filled

Henry007 — Wed, 02 May 2018 22:50:22 GMT

Same issue here - annoying enough that I'm considering cancelling my premium subscription, as I mostly use my phone. Yet this functionality works on my laptop. How do you log an official bug with Spotify for someone to acknowledge this bug and track it?

Here is screen caps from my andriod of the problem

Re: New Playlist Name Now Not Auto Filled

Joe — Thu, 03 May 2018 22:17:35 GMT

One of the spotify staff seemed to think this was an imorovement! I can only think they want to drive all android users away. Not only are they unwilling to fix the many long-running bugs but they also remove features we've lived with happily for years.

Anyway, apologies for the rant. Please vent in this "ideas" thread.

Re: New Playlist Name Now Not Auto Filled

Alfredo — Fri, 04 May 2018 00:15:49 GMT

Hey everyone!

Right now, this is intended on the Android app. You can find more info about this here.

You can also support the idea to implement this here.

All the best.

Re: New Playlist Name Now Not Auto Filled

Henry007 — Fri, 04 May 2018 00:25:33 GMT

I could not disagree with the decision more that this is the "intended behaviour". We're moving backwards - why is the functionality on the app not the same as the windows/pc experience? Why do you take functionality away that used to work?

Do spotify and devs read the user reviews?

https://community.spotify.com/t5/Live-Ideas/Playlists-Bring-Back-Album-Auto-Playlist-Naming-when-Cre...

Cancelling my and the wife's subscriptions now - I'll go back to Apple music.....

Re: New Playlist Name Now Not Auto Filled

bosi — Fri, 04 May 2018 17:01:57 GMT

This thread says that it is a deliberate change.

https://community.spotify.com/t5/Ongoing-Issues/adding-an-album-to-playlist-folder-have-to-enter-playlist-name/idc-p/4472280#M73286

Excellent, then you know how to revert the change. Please open this issue again and fix. It is a very bad change.

Re: New Playlist Name Now Not Auto Filled

Eddy555 — Fri, 04 May 2018 04:40:52 GMT

This is crazy, did anyone on the Spotify team think to ask the users of they thought this was a good idea. I don't understand it. Plus it creates a difference in experience between the Windows app (which works correctly) and the Android app (which doesn't).

Thanks for pointing is at the related information though.

Re: New Playlist Name Now Not Auto Filled

Ycros — Tue, 26 Jun 2018 01:55:09 GMT

Hi Alfredo, if the removal of this feature is intended behaviour, then can we have some insight into the design rationale behind this change? I think it would help if we had a little bit more context behind this decision.

Re: New Playlist Name Now Not Auto Filled

Henry007 — Tue, 26 Jun 2018 04:04:40 GMT

Hi Alfredo

Do you use spotify? Have you experienced the bug? (yes its a bug, as functionality DID work and then spotify went backwards)

Can you easily find your music in your playlists as you suggest - 'My playlist 1', 'My playlist 2', 'My playlist 3'... ?

I stopped using spotify, foregoing listening to music on my phone and I'm now paying for Youtube Red.