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Menna-H · ‎2021-05-24

We need transparency on how and why streams are filtered and what metrics are used in such process, especially as many suspect that there could be error or manipulation on behalf of Spotify. It is our right as paying customers to know where our streams go.

BTSPAKSTREAMING · ‎2022-02-23

It's been one year since Spotify was launched in Pakistan making music accessible to Pakistanis however Spotify Regional Charts for Pakistan aren't available even after one year of the official launch. It's impossible for Pakistani users to see the stats & how well their artists are performing. As a Pakistani & BTS ARMY who want to support their favorite artist by streaming their music & are interested to know about the popularity of their favorites we would like to request Spotify to provide SPOTIFY REGIONAL charts for PAKISTAN. We hope Spotify Team will consider our idea, Thank You!

bosi · ‎2022-03-17

Please do not close new ideas until agreement with the customer that placed the idea. That is common netiquette. It is not polite to refer to an 8 year old idea that is forgotten.

Erboda · ‎2017-04-17

I know the hardware is relatively new, but I STRONGLY feel it could benefit both Spotify and Nintendo if an app was produced for the Nintendo Switch. Thanks for listening.

DerNomade · ‎2022-01-31

See german translation in first comment Spotify has gendered the German language with the " * " in their apps. Spotify should not take a political position here, but dedicate itself to its business. Gendering does not lead to better German but is discriminatory against our language and culture. The grammatical gender is the genus and not the biological **bleep** (sexus). The Council for German Orthography lays down the foundations for this. According to various surveys, 65-80% of the population are against gendering and are thus a majority according to democratic understanding. I have seen that there have already been various attempts within the Spotify community to change these settings. However, these proposals were closed due to lack of participation. In my opinion, this lack of support is probably due to the fact that not every user who is annoyed about this circumstance is also active in the community and is looking for a solution there. My proposal differs from the previous attempts to demand a non-gendered German language setting directly. Instead, you should conduct a public, generally accessible and binding survey among Spotify users in the German-speaking countries and announce it in advance in a newsletter and not hide it in the community forum. The result of this democratic poll should decide on the withdrawal of this political and ideological measure and the return to the correct German language. And if you find that there is a majority in favour of the gender star-free version, you can still hold to your ideology and implement a freely selectable setting with the "*". In my opinion, that would be the most democratic and pragmatic solution to avoid further discussions. --- Und dann noch ein Bitte an die Spotify-User, die das unterstützen, teilt diese Umfrage auch in den sozialen Medien. Je mehr Unterstützer wir bekommen umso wahrscheinlicher ist es, das sich Spotify vielleicht doch mit dem Thema beschäftigt!

dan_dan_a_guitarman · ‎2022-01-27

You have made a serious error in providing a platform to the purveyor of misinformation, Rogan. I can't believe you are wasting money on this guy. He is literally killing people. Neil Young has done the right thing. I want to listen to Neil's music. I have no incentive in hearing Rogan's misinformation. I'm sure that there are many other people who feel similarly. There is no room for fools who murder people with absurd conspiracy theories. I will now have to find another way to listen to Neil Young. Since I will have to pay for that method, I will have to cancel my paying family subscription at Spotify until the situation is remedied. Thanks, Dan

APinDenver · ‎2022-01-25

Don't make a money decision, do what's right for the community, for people's health. Rogan spreads misinformation, people are harmed by it. Neil Young is an icon to multiple generations, and he's right about Rogan. Easy decision.

Thosi · ‎2022-01-20

As I am sure I speak for 80% of your community I would like to adress the issue of displaying a grammatically wrong way of designation with a gender star in the german language. To explain the issue, in german this means you would not say actor as the correct form, but act*ress to „include“ everyone, wich is in itself absurd and is proven to exlude foreign readers, analphabets, blind people etc. I would suggest bringing up an option where you can choose wich way of displaying the grammatical gender you want to see. The standard neutral way of saying actor for all actors or the ideological and wrong way of saying act*tress. Since this will be a democratic way of deciding, you‘ll see how many people tend to prefer the first one. Thank you for your consideration.

johnnybop115 · ‎2017-03-23

Videos are a great media, however they should not be included in curated playlists. It is distracting to listeners that drive with Spotify, or put it on in the background at work. Also, are these videos downloaded when users make a playlist available offline? If yes, this may take up too much space. If no, this will eat data without an option to avoid them.

Expilot · ‎2022-01-20

Hi there, as I told in the headline I would like to suggest to make the Genderstar an optional thing. Since I'm cursed with not being able to read properly and have to have my mobile phone read things out loud it really makes it hard to understand anything. That kind of speech is making my daily life hard and I unsubscribed Spotify until that changes, because it's not usable or enjoyable anymore. That is not barrier free. It creates even more barriers, especially for handicapped people like me. I'm asking for a normal German language setting/option instead of this ideology, which only 18% of the German population wants. Thank you very much!

BTSKENYA · ‎2021-07-03

Kenya became a recent addition to the recent expansion of Spotify to new markets earlier this year. With the rise in popularity of the app we feel the need for charts to showcase the popularity of artists and songs within our country that is (Viral 50,Top 50 Daily and Weekly Charts and album charts too) This benefits both the artists in gauging their popularity and fans in seeing how their favourite artists are fairing in the country. We hope to soon see the implementation of this idea. Thankyou

Montesi · ‎2020-08-27

I pay for my subscription. Every month for years now. The main reason I am a paid-for subscriber with Spotify is so I don't have to hear ads. As I have shifted my podcast listening from other providers to Spotify to bypass ads, both from the platform as well as integrated into the content. I expect not to hear ads on Spotify. I understand there are ads woven into the actual content of the podcast itself, but for as big of a company and the amount of leverage Spotify has, I expect to not hear ads so long as I am paying for the service. I reached out to Spotify and got this lazy, generic answer from Joy in Spotify Customer Support: “if you're hearing ads on podcasts using this Premium account. It's possible that the podcaster integrated that ads to their podcast content”. Thanks for breaking your back on that response. I KNOW what the ads I’m hearing are. And I understand they can’t ask podcasters to export two versions, one with integrated ads and one without. What I expect from Spotify is to either implement metadata that tags the beginning and ending of ad segments and bypass them for us, Premium subscribers, or require podcasters to give metadata timecodes that Spotify can identify to bypass them AUTOMATICALLY. Just to be clear, even if these identifiers are put into the content, I don’t want to have to pull my phone out to hit any sort of “skip ads” button. This is literally the ONLY reason users have Premium. So get rid of the ads. It’s actually very simple. And let’s not get started on how archaic it is to continually hit the “15sec forward” button to bypass the ads, first over shooting, then undershooting the duration of the integrated ad, only to have to make peace with hearing the last ten seconds of the ad. At that point it’s not servicing either party in the transaction. It’s 2020. You are a huge company with a lot of leverage and a huge developer budget. I honestly can’t believe I’m even having to write this suggestion. tl:dr - Spotify, I am a Premium member. You made a promise to me that if I became a Premium member, I wouldn’t hear ads. I’m hearing ads on podcasts. Integrated or not, I don’t care. You have the technology and power to fix it. So fix it. And make it automatic. It’s 2020.

wit_sec_birb · ‎2018-04-24

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hmthws · ‎2021-06-01

I had a suggestion for the new Spotify Blends that came out for Spotify. I really like this new feature and I think Spotify has done a really good job with it! However, I listen to a genre that my friends do not like. I noticed that a lot of music of that genre appeared in my Spotify Blends even though I have other music in common with my friends that could appear instead. Right now, the only option is to 'hide the song' but that only works to hide the song from your own device. Can we have a 'remove from playlist' option for songs that we don't like in the Blend? Removing the song should ideally be permanent, and should work on the entire playlist on all devices. Also, once we remove songs from the Blend, then can it prevent similar songs/songs of that genre from appearing again in the Blend? It would be even better if right after we remove a song, it is instantly replaced by a song that is different from it like it is learning from the feedback. Thanks!

PurpleFan · ‎2021-10-20

What i want to suggest here it's pretty simple: I found myself using and spend a lot of time with Spotify app on my desktop pc, in my case it's Mac mini but vailed for regular Windows pc. sometimes it's nice to follow up on new releases before Friday and listen to them. What i want to see here? same button that already appears on the mobile app. (bell button) Platforms: Desktop - Mac and Windows PSB example from my Iphone app

Petar1 · ‎2022-01-26

Spotify became available in Serbia and other neighboring countries more than 17 months ago, but it still hasn't launched official top 50 chart playlists for those. Can you, please, launch top 50 for Serbia, since Spotify is really popular here? Thank you

csheaa · ‎2021-12-03

As of Monday, 11/29/21: Spotify suddenly changed everyone’s Friend Activity settings to “off,” meaning that all listening activity of those you follow has now been quietly disabled in the Friend Activity section- unless each of your friends reads their Spotify emails and explicitly switches it back to “on.” Most users will not be aware that their activity is now off, profoundly damaging Spotify’s most important social feature, as well as the most reliable, accurate, around-the-clock means of finding new music. We are told to let our friends know of this change in order to turn it back on, however I have no way of contacting some of my Spotify friends because we are not friends in real life. This decision is both saddening and highly arbitrary as the “Private Session” feature can be utilized to keep listening activity private when necessary. Users rely heavily on this feature to get through the workday as well as the pandemic in general. Please consider that this entirely changes the listening experience and purpose of Spotify for many. Spotify is no more competitive than Apple Music unless this update is reversed. From Spotify Moderator on 12/01/21: “ Hey everyone, Thanks for reaching out on the Community! We've moved your posts to a relevant Help Board where they fit better. We can confirm that due to privacy reasons, the default setting for sharing your listening activity with friends was changed to off with recent releases. This means that those who had it on before without explicitly setting it on, now have it switched off. This would explain why they aren't in your feed any more. You can let your friends know of this change and ask them to turn it on in their settings if they want to share their listening activity.” Thank you.

Daniel · ‎2013-12-10

Now that connect is becoming available it would be nice to be able to connect to multiple outputs at the same time. For example I have 2 connect compatable speakers... it'd be great to have these in different parts of my house and be able to stream the same music to both. I would suggest a maximum of 3 devices at the same time. This will allow for most scenarios to be catered for without streatching the bandwidth too much that it will degrade quality.

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.

hibritcik · ‎2022-02-14

Radio mode that can be activated between song passes. Name this mode "listen to your own radion". Before starting the song we listed, a short announcement pass feature like “next song is name we are chaos album paint you with my love”.

Spotify Community

Closed Ideas

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[Community] Spotify Charts for Pakistan

[Community][Other] Do not close ideas until the customer has accepted so

[Partnership] Spotify for Nintendo Switch

[All Platforms][Social] German language without *in

[Community][Podcasts] Get rid of the vax misinformation dealer, Rogan. Bring back Neil Young.

Keep Neil Young, jettison Joe Rogan

[Social] Make a gender neutral way of displaying in german an option

[Music] Option to disable Videos in curated Playlists

[Community][Other] Make Genderstar an optional setting or language option.

[All Platforms][Search] Spotify Charts for Kenya

[All Platforms] No Ads in Podcasts for Spotify Premium users

[Partnership] Payments with Verge (XVG) Cryptocurrency

[Playlists] Remove a song from a Blend and prevent similar songs

[Desktop][Discover] new release button

[Community][Playlists] Serbia - top 50 playlists

[Desktop][Social] Upsetting new update: Friend Activity default to off

[Connect] Multiple Speakers / Devices simultaneously

[Desktop] Equalizer for the Desktop Version

[Radio] Personalized radio announcer between tracks