New idea for "Searchbar" and "Arrow Keys" for the desktop app.

[AtakanBatur]

I have been a musician for 15 years. I am 41 years old. I come from a time when music was physical. And i still have them. So what i am going to suddgesting here is, for practicing matters, we as a musicians need to be able to start listening from where ever we would like to start from.

As you guess, for our play list for our gigs we use Spotify to share it with our band members.
But as a musicians, we need to practice songs. While practicing a song, we need to forward or rewind the song with short sections.

Searchbar idea:
Here is my idea; If you could show the wave form of each song, that would be amazing to search and jump between the sections of the song with the search bar slider for practicing matters. So we could easily see the song parts.

The search bar on Spotify is like a **bleep** at the moment. Beacuse when i slide it to a section i predicted by the duration or bar itself, it starts from where ever the app wants. Ok it's still close where i would like to start from listening, but not exactly where i want to start from. And it's not convenient for practicing. It's not fully under users control.

Arrow keys idea:
Also if we could jump between 5 to 10 seconds with the keyboard arrow buttons as we are able to do it with youtube, that would be also amazing feature for us. If we could choose how many seconds those arrow keys will forward or rewind the song, that would be even more futurestic aproach to that idea.

Lets make Spotify better for musicians. Not just for the listeners.
Thank you, and see you later. 

[Joan]

Updated on 2024-08-05

Hey @AtakanBatur,

We’re closing this idea since it doesn’t meet one of our Idea Exchange guidelines, namely point 3: “One change request per Idea.”.

When one post includes several feature requests, it becomes hard to keep track of and update them. Therefore, please submit any suggestions you may have one at a time. There seem to be various differing ideas in your post such as wave form for songs, change to the search and keyboard shortcuts and it won't be viable to keep all of these in one post. You're welcome to submit many requests, but each feature needs to be submitted one at a time.

Also, keep the following in mind:

1. Before submitting, make sure to thoroughly browse the Live Ideas section and make sure this hasn't been submitted before. If it has, vote for the existing idea instead.
2. Make sure this doesn't overlap with existing features. Fast forwarding with the arrow keys is possible on Desktop by selecting the progress bar by pressing Tab enough times.
3. Focus only on the feature you want to see implemented, describing what it is and how it should work in a short but clear and concise manner. We appreciate personal touches, but such information in an Idea Submission only serves to make it more difficult to understand what is being requested.

Feel free to submit a new idea - just make sure to familiarize yourself with the above guidelines.

Thanks for understanding.