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Theway

Spotify is a fantastic service and it's by far my favourite app. As a listener I love the simplicity of the interface, the various playlists and genres that allow me to discover music that I would never in a million years find on my own, the vast catalogue of artists, and just the ease with which it allows me to have access to almost any music I desire. But Spotify could be so much more. Spotify could enable fans to connect with artists in ways that have never been available to them before. Spotify could be a service that allows artists, no matter how big or small, to grow and flourish. And Spotify could be the first streaming service to corner the live streaming music market. I have a proposal that I think solves a number of problems that there currently are with the service and just improves the service in general. Problems -It is widely believed that artists do not receive sufficient revenue relative to a)the number of people who listen to their music and b)Spotify and the big labels/distributors etc that facilitate the disseminating of their work -Besides buying merch, listeners currently have no means to financially support an artist directly through the Spotify service either as a donation or a small tip for them enjoying the music. -Spotify currently has no presence when it comes to live gigs. Solution I believe a system somewhat similar to Twitch's 'bits' could solve all of these problems and allow Spotify, artists, and listeners to grow and come together. Attached is a proposal of how I envision it could work (I've also included an imgur link as the attachment isn't large enough in my preview)(apologies for the photoshopping skills). I welcome any comments on improvements or just feedback in general. I truly believe implementing this or something very similar is a win win for all involved and could potentially revolutionise music for developing artists and listeners. It's called 'Beats'. Larger image: https://i.imgur.com/Gf4AcYp.png

lauralys-shallo

I searched “Love dr” so I could play “Love Drunk” by the iconic Boys Like Girls, and the top result was not “Love Drunk;” rather, it was “Love Drugs and **bleep**” by “A Boogie Wit da Hoodie” (?). I am very disappointed, and I am requesting that Spotify put “Love Drunk” as the “Top result.” It is disrespectful to one of the best pop rock bands of the decade to put them below a booger in a hooder. LOVE DRUNK DESERVES TO BE THE "TOP RESULT."

Acepirate728 · ‎2018-07-30

EDIT: THANK YOU so much for removing Info Wars from your platform! I'm glad you listened and I will renew my subscription! -its not a free speech issue, he still has his website -real the constitution before you bring up the First Amendment -patrons of Spotify expecting their content creators to follow their code of conduct (ie NOT threaten to kill people!) Is totally reasonable. Please consider banning Alex Jones' Info Wars podcast. His hatefilled and inaccurate "reporting" should not be given a platform anywhere, especially not on Spotify. I can not in good conscious continue to pay for a paid subscription for a service that also provides a hateful man a platform to spread more hate and fear.

aemerizal

The latest update completely changed the 'playing now' screen. I usually welcome new layout changes with open arms but not this one. The once convenient 'repeat' button has been moved under the 'options'. The repeat and shuffle button should be placed back to their original positions, left untouched for easy access and convenience. If something isn't broken, don't fix it. The updated layout with missing repeat button. New position of the repeat button.

wit_sec_birb · ‎2018-04-24

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Virtigo33

When you look at a playlist and scroll to the bottom, there are recommended songs to add to the playlist. If you drag one of these into the playlist on the side, then click "add" next to the song, it doesn't give you the "skip duplicate song" prompt. Thanks

Myst01

I would like to suggest a new feature, that is to add a visual equalizer to spotify! I have attached a picture below as an example of how it would look like. It looks alot nicer than the pale background of playing music. Vote this post if you would like to see this come to spotify!

Damo2010

The current maximum duration for student discount on Spotify is 4 years total. Unfortunately this does not fully cater for part time students, who can spend a minimum of 6 years completing their degree. It also does not cater for those studying Masters or PhDs. It would be great to be able to increase this duration by the number of years the student is actually studying, not just the 4 years currently allowed.

brambinovic

Wouldn't it be awesome to listen to music together? Some of us are lucky enough to be able to play Spotify over loudspeakers when in the office or when with friends. However, when your boss/colleagues/environment does not allow for this amazing part to your day, it would still be great to listen to music together. Using third party audio streaming tools is rather data-heavy and doesn't work as well as it should. In comes Host mode. When using Spotify, one could start hosting a party, generating a shareable link that will allow clients to sync their music to what the host is playing. This would further improve the use of collaborative playlists, as it is great fun to build a playlist together with your friends or colleagues, and being able to enjoy it together and at the same time. This method of synchronization would not require any audio streaming from the host, as data regarding what is being played and at what timestep in the song it is playing is all that is required to be shared between clients. Depending on how accurately this can be done, multiple devices could even be used as loudspeakers, increasing the overall volume of your party. The audio-less synchronization would also easily combine with free Spotify accounts, as occasional ads could just be played with a higher priority than the party's music, resuming into the stream afterward. Let me know what you think and please vote me up!

jnguyen0651 · ‎2019-01-16

The swipe to queue and add track to library gestures are no longer working on any Artist's "Popular" songs. The gestures still work in other locations such as when viewing albums, playlists, or searched songs. This feature is important to me because when a song comes on from an artist I haven't listened to and like, I visit artists pages and queue up their Popular songs to see if I like some of their other releases. This allows me to easily and quickly save the songs and artist if I like them or pass them up and continue with my playlist/radio if I do not. The ease of access is especially important while I'm working, exercising, or driving. I'm guessing the loss of functionality has to do with the recent UI change to Artist's pages (Pictures are now a cover picture behind their artists names and follow button look and position change).

Marco · ‎2015-09-17

There should be an Equalizer for the Desktop version of Spotify. Since Spotify's mobile apps now have an EQ setting, this should be implemented on the desktop version, too! The EQ should come with various presets but also the ability to save your own custom settings.

jaccojanssens

I go by train alot and i always think: what is that person in front of me listening to? With this idea i can find out! With Spotify Together you can listen to other people's music at the same time as they do. By using a HotSpot you can put on, you can share your music with others as they can share their music with you. With this possibility you can see what music other people listen to and you can just check in to their experience. This is not only possible to do when you are in a train like me, but also when your buddy is on the other side of the planet. You can just check in and listen to the same song at the same time. It makes you feel like you are together, atleast a little bit. This feature also contains a chat box where you can chat about the song and make recomendations about other songs. This feature can also start happenings like silent disco's in public spaces. People can just check in when they like to. This feature can be open for everybody to join, or there can be some lock so nobody bothers you and your buddy.

tesshenkel · ‎2017-02-24

The Inbox/Messaging feature did not get a real shot at even being a feature because Spotify took away notifications for new messages. Give Inbox/Messaging some development so users can continue to privately share songs.

Petrayus

Latest update hide the repeat button in another menu (...) at the top. I use the repeat button more than any other button. Please place the button back where it was, there is a ton of room down there for the button. (I honestly would be more ok with you completely deleting the shuffle button then this change. SMH)

user-removed · ‎2018-12-03

For me it seems like every time I update the app, some basic features are missing or not working as before. Thats why I want to collect all my major points in this post, so that maybe those features will come back in the future: - The menu bar at the bottom of the app no longer features the Radio function, from where you can easily access all your played radio stations, whether from a specific song, a playlist or whatever. Please bring it back! The current way is not as easy as it was before. - If you want to search for a song within any playlist, regardless if its your own or not, this is no longer possible the way we know. Currently we have to click on the three dots in the top right corner to open a new menu, select there "Search in Playlist" and after that, start typing in what we want to search. This is as bad as it can get! Please bring back the old search function where you just have to scroll at the top and select "Search"! - If Spotify developers/managers want to change/delete basic features of the app, which were there since the beginning of it, there should be an option to say: NO, I want the old system/feature back. For example create an option in the settings to switch between new feature/design and old one. - If you navigate to any playlist and search for an artist who has some songs in it, you should be able to play just the displayed songs. No matter if you use shuffle or not. Only the songs which are displayed with this search/filter should be played. At the moment this is not working because every time the whole playlist will be played.

EelcoGrimm · ‎2017-12-19

I would like to breath new life in an idea that was proposed in this forum a few years back: https://t.co/bcRo8UJ8d5. It is about offering fans the opportunity to donate to artists. I see it like this: we need to increase the notion of authorship again by introducing the ‘Karma Button’. Music is very important in most people’s life’s. Fans feel a strong connection to musical artists. With streaming, the opportunity to express one’s support for the artist is lost. The monthly subscription fee goes to the Streaming Service, who seems disconnected from the artist they play and love. When buying a CD one had the subconscious expectation the money went to the artist. With streaming, the public is aware that the artist revenue on a single stream is very small. In reality, revenues on streams are payed to the master owner, often the record label. Record labels even blocked the neighboring rights for online delivery. But fans experience a relationship with the artist, not with the label. The Karma button facilitates a payment of the fan directly to the artist, like flipping a dime in the hat of a street artist. It is a gift that should not be subject to contracts related to the music itself. This is where the proposal of 2012 stalled. The response from Spotify was: “Spotify pays out straight back to rightsholders, the record labels and collecting societies who in turn pay money to the artists, musicians, lyricists and composers that they represent. So we do not pay straight to artists…labels do that. For this reason and since all our music is based in the agreements with labels we can't do anything about this…”. The real problem is that Spotify does not have a database of which artist has what rights on which music so they don’t know who to pay the money to. Luckily that problem can be solved elegantly by cooperating with a neighboring rights organization such as the Dutch Sena (https://www.sena.nl/en/music-creators). Sena is a non-profit organization, working for a small administration fee, and has records of most relevant tracks, including the share ratios of the producers. Artists can also sign up at Sena themselves. If Sena is informed how much money was donated to which ISRC number, they can take care of the payment, charging only a small administration fee. This process can be automated. I had a meeting with the director of Sena and they are ready for this. Now there is a threat. Record labels do not like distributing companies like Spotify to build a direct relationship with their artists. Spotify is strongly dependent on the record labels for their stream content so there is a risk that labels will take countermeasures. The solution is to make sure that there is just a one way connection from the fan to the artist of the donation, with Sena in between. This is in line with the Karma principle. In India a Karma action is a one way affair. One should not expect anything in return during the current lifetime. So in our case there is no need to offer a return path from the artists to express their gratitude for the donation. Spotify should explain this clearly to the record labels. The Karma button should have a clear icon and be available on the main page of the interface where the track is viewed and started (for donating to the track artists) and on the artist page (for donating to just the main artist). It should be a ‘one click donate’ system so the threshold to pay is very low. A monthly limit per user could be set. Keep the concept as simple as possible: the full amount minus x% administration cost will go to the artists. By doing this in full authentic honesty, trust is gained from listeners and artists. Show the route of the donated money clearly. The name ‘Karma’ also relates to this: if the middle men take too much money from the revenue stream, it will be bad for their own Karma. But Karma also works the other way around. At the moment Spotify is arguably the largest source for music consumption. That brings responsibility to support the artists where possible. By taking the lead in adopting the Karma button, Spotify shows the world that they take their mission serious. And it brings lots of opportunities. By adding Karma, the freemium model makes a lot of sense for artists. All fans should have free access to Spotify so everyone can use Karma to express their gratitude. Artists will encourage their fans to use the Karma button on Spotify. If they like they can place a QR-Karma code on their outings at concerts (on tickets etc), which offers the audience a possibility to give them a ‘tip’ via the Karma button on their Spotify page. I offer this idea just for my own good Karma. But I sincerely hope that it will be adopted, since I am sure it will benefit especially the smaller artists, who do need some support these days. Eelco Grimm HKU University of the Arts, Music & Technology, Utrecht, The Netherlands Grimm Audio, Eindhoven, The Netherlands

MoltoMiller · ‎2019-01-09

Can't wrap my head around why Spotify would remove the ability to add new radio stations on the Radio page (Windows and Android). What used to take two steps (from the logical starting point of the Radio page), now requires you to navigate to the Artist/Album, click on their info for the dropdown, and create a station. Sure, it's not that much more difficult to do, but just makes more sense to me to have the ability to add radio stations directly on the Radio page by searching for Artists/Albums/Songs. I miss my beautiful green button. Just my worthless $0.02.

smguerraf

Hey Spotify bring back the old radio where I could like and dislike songs, I loved the liked from radio playlist and it is no longer available, seriously checking out other streaming options. Listen to your costumers because I know a lot of people liked the old radio.

Olcique · ‎2015-10-02

How about ordering playlists alphabetically? I'm paying for this service and this feature is the most common and easiest one even for a free music player...

pixelpusher · ‎2012-05-11

Update 17/2/14 - Almost 2 years ago I submitted this idea, and in the last few weeks, the number of Kudos email notifcations I receive daily is getting even more frequent. Thanks to everyone who keep's voting it up, I didn't think it would get 10 votes let alone over 1,000! Clearly it's popular but not as straight forward to develop hence the 'Not Right Now' status from Spotify, but keep the voting! The most rated ideas are getting developed and it's just a matter of time before this one does too. Thanks! ------------------ I'd like to see a miniplayer and mini controls for Spotify that could sit in the taskbar (Windows and Mac!) The idea came about, after I kept maximising and minimising Spotify just to see my play queue and sometimes jump down a few . This is my solution making it a less obtrusive way of seeing what's coming up and track jumping.

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Closed Ideas

[All Platforms] How to stop artists leaving Spotify + Improve the service for everyone

[Music] PUT LOVE DRUNK AS TOP RESULT. BOYS LIKE GIRLS HAVE BEEN WRONGED.

[All Platforms][Shows] Infowars

[iOS][Music] PUT THE REPEAT BUTTON BACK

[Partnership] Payments with Verge (XVG) Cryptocurrency

[Desktop][Playlists] Playlist reccomended add button doesn't check for duplicates

[All Platforms][Music] Visual Equalizer to be added while listening to music

[All Platforms][Subscription] Increasing duration of student discount

[All Platforms][Connect] Host a Spotify (Office) Party

[iOS][Other] Swipe to Queue gesture no longer available on artist top tracks

[Desktop] Equalizer for the Desktop Version

[Connect] Spotify Together

[Social] Bring back Inbox/Messaging with Notifications

[Mobile] Mobile App: Place the repeat button back where it was

[Android] Bring back important/basic features!

[Your Music] Donate To This Artist ‘Karma’ button

[Desktop][Radio] Bring 'Create New Radio Station' Back

[iOS] Bring back old radio

[Playlists] Sort List of Playlists alphabetically

[Desktop] Mini Player