*feature request* Star/unStar within the app

[manisfive]

So in the few months I've been a Spotify Premium user the star/unstar functionality has been buried and then removed from the android app. Why? and, Can we have it back?

[Joe]

You can still add tracks to the starred playlist so the functionality is still there. I don't know Spotify's thinking but it may be that they think that starring will be less important once collection launches.

[manisfive]

😕 true enough.

Do you know if they're planning on making Library editable through the desktop client, or is it purely an Android team initiative? Is it on the iPhone client?  

[Joe · Accepted solution]

Collection is being tested on all platforms, iphone, android, desktop client and web player. The other thing I guess is that there would be too many icons to be pretty - the new connect icon and another icon for adding a song to your collection...

[manisfive]

That puts me at ease. Collection has been working its way into the android client for months, and doesn't exist at all on my desktop client yet - which still makes things frustrating during the transition, but I'm glad the platorm as a whole is going somewhere and not just getting more and more incoherent.

[RKM]

I don't get how this is marked as "solved".

Having eliminated the true "star" capabilty and replacing it with a playlist make it extremely difficult ot "Unstar" tracks (or in new terms, remove from the "starred playlist").  And worse, if I see a song I like elsewhere, I have no way of knowing if I've already "starred" it any longer.

Spotify has significanlty inhibited the usability of the app and there is no convenient alternative to the star-feature they've removed yet evidently convinced themselves is an adequate alternative.

[jwc28]

I completely agree with the previous comment. The star feature has effectively been removed and replaced with a playlist. There doesn't even need to be a dedicated star button (as I agree the app could becone a little cluttered), simply an option within the drop down list for each song/album, in the same fashion as the 'Save' option. The inability to quickly check whether a track is on my starred playlist is going to be quite frustrating.

[Pakillo73]

I think the star was very functional, I hope it come back soon.

[Peter__]

It was outlined pretty clearly in response to an Ideas topic the starred buttons won't be making a return:
http://community.spotify.com/t5/Spotify-Ideas/Star-and-Save-coexisting/idi-p/745357

[Pakillo73]

It's a shame. I really think this is a big, big mistake. Starred song's should be a basic funtion in any music player. Tell me how can I find my favourite songs in an album.