"I'll tackle your concerns based on how they were listed on your last chat interaction. First, just to make sure that we're on the same page, kindly clarify what specific Library function you're not seeing. That way, I can check if it disappearing is part of a Spotify update or if we need to do some further troubleshooting."
First off, if you'd kindly have a glance at these threads, so you can see that there's an ongoing issue infuriating a LOT of Spotify users:
(7 pages)
Here Mihail (Moderator) suggests a clean reinstall, a waste of time which doesn't solve the problem that there just is no library search function across saved songs.
Screenshots by Pwg56 clearly illustrate the issue.
At least moderator Novy has the decency to admit: "Currently, this search will only show playlists, artists, albums and podcasts, not songs. "
Here's a very elaborate post on the issue:
Here an idea submission with 5,323 votes.
If it was still up for voting, guess how many more it would get?
Please note, there are 71 pages of comments. I've read through a lot of them, and would yet have to find a single positive comment about the destruction of the search.
I asked myself the same question as amlaluddite:
The information provided does NOT resemble the current mobile UI, and regarding the desktop guide, think about the wording of this 'helpful' suggestion: To filter your collection, click [Magnifying Glass] at the top of THE LIST and enter a search term.
And this is exactly the point: You have to find THE LIST first to be able to SEARCH what you're looking for. SERIOUSLY???
Here's another one, status set to 'Implemented', though 'Ignored' would be the better word:
2,336 votes. Thread spanning over two years, 45 pages of comments, at least 99% between very and extremely angry.
Here's something I just found, with some of the first comments describing my feelings pretty accurately:
Quote: "The new universal search can be accessed by tapping the search icon at the top right corner. The new search allows you to quickly search through your entire library for playlists, playlist folders, artists, albums, and podcasts without having to go to a specific content section."
It allows to search for a lot, while making it IMPOSSIBLE TO FIND A SONG in your library! Great!! The specific search is dead, long live the universal search! Hooray!!!
Who want's search results, when you can get suggestions instead?
My most recent two cents, screenshots provided, fresh install, was the latest version yesterday:
Please take note of the venerable link I posted to a suggestion from the year 2012, which, if it had been ever heeded by Spotify, would solve most of the problems and trouble the sabotaged search functionality causes.
If you haven't been able to grasp by now why the taking away of the library search for songs would be troublesome, I'll try to outline again what countless users have tried to make Spotify understand:
1. Having to like a song in order to be able to find it later in the library is an extra step. Spotify can't be serious about implementing extra, totally unnecessary steps for one of the most basic actions.
2. If you haven't liked all of your songs yet, you'll need to go through your whole library, and do that now. Seriously?
3. What if you don't really like some songs, but want to save them to a playlist for other family members, for guests, etc.?
Sure, there's workarounds like adding each and every song to an 'all saved songs' playlist. But this is another extra step. And that had been an automatic feature of Spotify before they took it away. Why???
4. Even if liked, songs can't be found in playlists on the Android app. You have to click 'edit playlist', and then scroll until you find the song - in a list that is sorted by random criteria. C'mon, is this the stone age again?
5. Trying the workaround to just use the add song feature will lead to duplicates if you don't get exactly the right version. Do you like duplicates?
6. What if you forget to like a song, when you add it to a playlist? With the missing library search function, it becomes kind of invisible. You'd only find it when trying to add it to a playlist for a second time, or when looking in the right playlist. This is extra painful when not exactly remembering the spelling of the title or artist.
7. There is no way to see the total number of how many songs you have saved now, unless you went through each and every playlist and liked each and every song.
8. In the desktop app, where there's at least a search in each playlist provided, the results are pretty random, see the screenshot provided where I looked for "Them". The search returning title results first when the filter is set to artist is a bad joke. So even if you DO bow to Spotify imposing the liking of all songs, the search is lousy.
These are NOT EVEN ALL of the problems arising from the lack of a comprehensive library search function. I've left out the mess with the deliberately broken artist page (following artists, as suggested, helps in no way - rather the opposite), which had been one of my favourite ways of discovering music and avoiding fragmentation of playlists over different albums.
I am really completely fed up by now with having to explain issues that shouldn't even exist if Spotify (or their support) used a little bit of common sense and universal logic.
All off that mess is based on exactly the same issue: Spotify's removal of the most basic search functionality.
"I'll also would like a link to the Community page that you mentioned so I can see which page is denying you any further access. That way, I can make sure that it's forwarded to the right team managing the said page."
Staff / Moderator/ 2 years ago in Social & Random