topic Re: How to remove a song from the playlist that is currently playing in Android

How to remove a song from the playlist that is currently playing

eschurr — Tue, 24 Dec 2019 18:27:20 GMT

Plan

Premium

Country

USA

Device

Samsung Galaxy 8+

Operating System

Android Oreo

My Question or Issue

This seems like a trivial thing, and I'm sorry to bother the community about it but I can't figure it out. I looked around in here but all of the posts were years old.

What's the easiest way to remove a song from the currently playing playlist?

Here's the scenario: I'm playing a playlist, and a song comes up that i no longer like. I can't find an option in the Spotify Android app that lets me simply remove the song from the list. All i can do i go to the playlist (not the "now playing" queue), search for the song in the list, and once i find it remove it. That sure seems clunky. There must be a better way....

Re: How to remove a song from the playlist that is currently playing

Emilia_8 — Tue, 24 Dec 2019 18:40:10 GMT

Hi @eschurr,

Thank you for reaching out here in the Community!

You don't have to go through the whole playlist to find a song you want to delete. You can access the search bar by going to the three-dot menu. Then you can enter song title, artist or album there.

I hope it helps!

Re: How to remove a song from the playlist that is currently playing

eschurr — Wed, 01 Jan 2020 23:34:41 GMT

Thanks....i'm aware of that. But it seems unnecessarily clunky that you have to enter the song name, etc. to search for it in the list when the song is already playing. It would make sense to have an option to "remove song from this playlist," much like there is an option to "add song to another playlist."

Re: How to remove a song from the playlist that is currently playing

Emilia_8 — Wed, 01 Jan 2020 23:52:52 GMT

Hi @eschurr,

Thanks for your reply!

In this case, I'd recommend checking this Live Idea and adding your +VOTE there.

You can find there an official update from Spotify as well.

Here you can read more on how the Idea Exchange works and how your feedback reaches Spotify.

Have a nice day!

Re: How to remove a song from the playlist that is currently playing

eschurr — Tue, 02 Nov 2021 22:03:05 GMT

Sorry this didn't help. I don't want to have to enter the song name. The song is already playing, I should be able to act on it immediately. The possible is that spotify doesn't know what playlists a song is in, it only knows what songs are in a playlist.

Re: How to remove a song from the playlist that is currently playing

Jeremy — Thu, 04 Nov 2021 08:00:38 GMT

Hi there @eschurr,

Thank you for your reply and feedback.

As mentioned above, we suggest that you head over to the idea that's been provided and leave a +VOTE and Subscribe to the idea for any updates regarding this.

Not right now status comes after the idea has reached the correct teams and for transparency we've put that status. It's not impossible to get it in the future, but we cannot make any promises.

Let us know if we can help you with anything else 🙂

Take care!

Re: How to remove a song from the playlist that is currently playing

DannyGT7 — Thu, 04 Aug 2022 12:11:52 GMT

You gotta be kidding me, years past by still no solution? Only ios has this feature, whyyyyyyyyyyyyyy???????!!!!!!!!!!

Re: How to remove a song from the playlist that is currently playing

Sallvio — Fri, 21 Oct 2022 01:59:22 GMT

This is the reason I will give Deezer a chance.

Re: How to remove a song from the playlist that is currently playing

Jason_Stephenson — Sun, 02 Jul 2023 05:20:56 GMT

Try doing that while driving a semi truck on the highway in traffic on a phone with a small screen. A simple button would be nice.

Re: How to remove a song from the playlist that is currently playing

adamstifuk — Sat, 15 Jul 2023 12:15:24 GMT

It's absolutely ridiculous that since Spotify launched this hasn't been addressed. This is the NUMBER 1 biggest annoyance on the app. How can not everyone be complaining about this too?

Re: How to remove a song from the playlist that is currently playing

adamstifuk — Sat, 15 Jul 2023 12:22:34 GMT

😡

Re: How to remove a song from the playlist that is currently playing

adamstifuk — Sat, 15 Jul 2023 12:17:53 GMT

I might love too. Spotify are just arrogant thinking we should just suffer with fundermental floors in the platform. The arrogance of it is unreal

Re: How to remove a song from the playlist that is currently playing

adamstifuk — Sat, 15 Jul 2023 12:18:31 GMT

Exactly!!! Spotify are so arrogant they don't care

Re: How to remove a song from the playlist that is currently playing

adamstifuk — Sat, 15 Jul 2023 12:21:59 GMT

What a joke , it's a fundermental floor in the app and you expect the users to vote for it. Come on , change the record. This should have been fixed from day 1. Why should we have to put up with these basic issues. The arrogance at Spotify is unreal. Putting up a bit F U to your users basically. Raise this issue in your management meetings

Re: How to remove a song from the playlist that is currently playing

nadzz_18 — Tue, 05 Sep 2023 15:44:37 GMT

If im listening to my playlist and a song comes up and starts playing and I dont like it, how do I remove or delete it from the playlist very simply from the playing screen?

Re: How to remove a song from the playlist that is currently playing

adamstifuk — Tue, 05 Sep 2023 15:57:49 GMT

You can't, Spotify haven't implemented the ability to do this. You can
download a custom made app by one of the forum members Victor. You open the
app, when the song is playing you toggle to the app and press delete
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=org.virock.deletecurrentplaylistsong_spotify

Re: How to remove a song from the playlist that is currently playing

philbego — Sun, 22 Oct 2023 20:08:28 GMT

One solution is (in the meanwhile? Don't know how long it exists): Be in the Playlist view, press "previous song" (maybe you have to press two times) Then you see the last song you played and you wanted to delete now on top of the Playlist. And on the left of the song name is a small circle. Touch the circle, then, at bottom left you can select delete song. Nevertheless there should be a direct delete function for a currently played song !!

Re: How to remove a song from the playlist that is currently playing

peter2305 — Mon, 27 Jan 2025 15:40:03 GMT

Hi - this link doesn't seem to work. Is there any other solution?

Re: How to remove a song from the playlist that is currently playing

PrisonerofSpotfy — Sat, 19 Apr 2025 07:23:39 GMT

Here we are in the year 2025 and it's still IMPOSSIBLE to delete a song from the Spotify library, it's downright insane and I'm seriously thinking about getting rid of the entire stupid platform and just using Google Music which I btw am paying for anyway. Not only can't i delete anything but when playing 'random' I keep hearing songs I deliberately have 'HIDDEN'. Are Swedish people not very smart or are they just incredible ignorant and selfish as in NOT listening to their paying customers, or could it be all of the above...??? Moronic platform, we're literally being kept prisoners so they can make more money.