topic Re: Scroll wheel in Android

Scroll wheel

WesleyK1 — Tue, 29 Mar 2016 18:26:06 GMT

Dear Spotify,

I have some own created playlists where I have lots of music that I love. +1500 songs.

What I loved about Android phones is that I could really easily scroll though the whole list on the right side of the phone.

Now that featured dissapeared which makes me really sad because fingers are already tired of scrolling trough that whole list by swiping like an iPhone user.

Please bring this feature back!

Kind regards,

Wesley

EDIT:

Hello,

We're sorry to hear you're unhappy with the changes in Spotify.

We're always testing things by adding or removing features to make Spotify better overall. We’re sorry that this means you’re not able to use the app like you could before.

We can't say if or when any specific features will be back. But as soon as we’ve got anything to announce, we’ll let everyone know over on the Spotify Community.

However, we do have a ideas board where you can post request to get back certain features (or new ones). Other users can then vote for and comment your post.

We are always keeping us updated on this forum so that we can see what feature is mostly sought after.

We hope this information helps you. Please don't hesitate to ask if you have any more questions tough.

Cheers

Niclas

Spotify Customer Support

Re: Scroll wheel

Daniel — Thu, 17 Mar 2016 10:20:11 GMT

Have you checked to see if that Idea already exists in the Ideas section? If it does then add your Kudos to show your support. If not, create a new idea and if it gets enough Kudos it may well happen!

Re: Scroll wheel

WesleyK1 — Thu, 17 Mar 2016 10:22:37 GMT

It is not really a new Idea. It was already a feature on Android and now Spotify removed it.

Re: Scroll wheel

Daniel — Thu, 17 Mar 2016 10:34:33 GMT

To be honest the scroll bar actually annoyed me as when trying to tap the menu against a song the phone detected a tap to the scroll bar and instead of opening the menu I'd find myself half-way down the playlist.

But I can see for some with massive playlists it would be useful. Whilst it may not be a new idea, adding it as an idea means it will be made visible whereas topics in the help sections don;t always get seen by the staff.

Re: Scroll wheel

WesleyK1 — Thu, 17 Mar 2016 10:36:52 GMT

I can understand that as well. Thanks for your respons! I will post it as an idea at the idea section!

Re: Scroll wheel

juliushe — Fri, 18 Mar 2016 13:26:53 GMT

Yes. That's my probleme, too. I would love to get back this feature. Thanks.

Re: Scroll wheel

dudebroyolo — Fri, 18 Mar 2016 13:41:15 GMT

Came to the forum to see if anyone else had a missing scroll wheel. I also have large playlists that are now a pain to go through because of the removal of this feature.

Re: Scroll wheel

Ultima2k — Fri, 18 Mar 2016 16:17:13 GMT

Just discovered this too after my darn phone thought updating spotify without asking me was a good idea.

Seriously wtf, how I'm a suppose to play my recently added song in my 600+ song list??
I'm not paying to have me crippled like this.

EDIT:

I installed the previous version and it now works again....yay => http://spotify.en.uptodown.com/android/download/448929

Need to resync offline lists again thou, which sucks.

Re: Scroll wheel

mike74 — Fri, 18 Mar 2016 23:48:05 GMT

Having the same prolem. With large playlists it almost makes the app unusable. It takes way to long to scroll through your music without the scrolling function.

Re: Scroll wheel

l0l — Sat, 19 Mar 2016 01:29:32 GMT

Can't agree more. This may make or break Spotify for me, I don't want to be spending 45 seconds getting to the bottom of my playlist every time I want to change song.

Re: Scroll wheel

Pepe362 — Sat, 19 Mar 2016 13:53:02 GMT

Terrible idea removing it, I can't see the logic in not just making it optional in the settings menu if some people didn't like it, but it is an absolute ballache not being able to do, needs a fix

Re: Scroll wheel

Ultima2k — Wed, 30 Mar 2016 18:29:49 GMT

Yes it's really makes no sense why the hell you take away a function completly, instead of just putting a choise to enable/disable in the settings...

So when are we gonna see a working update for spotify? I'm kinda tired of being forced to disable updates on my phone just to avoid getting the latest spotify cancer update...

// someone frustrated who has paid almost 5 years for this crap

Re: Scroll wheel

gigzalot — Mon, 04 Apr 2016 02:06:59 GMT

As with a number of complaints listed already, I too have a grip load of songs on my primary playlist and find this removal to be a huge annoayance. I absolutely loved when the scroll wheel feature was introduced as it saved so much time with my ability to find the exact song I was wanting to listen to. It would be tremendously usefull to, at the very least, allow this as an option for members by adding it as a settings choice if there are members who do not like using the scroll wheel, because it would at least allow those of us who almost exclusively rely on it to not have to spend, literally, multiple minutes it now takes of my time attempting to seek just a few songs I'd like to add to cue, that used to take 1 minute for me to cue up 10 songs.

Please! Bring this feature back.

Re: Scroll wheel

Daniel — Mon, 04 Apr 2016 10:23:58 GMT

Ther scroll bar is back in the latest beta - please wait for this to be released to stable... but it is coming back you'll be pleased to know!