I really love spotify as a concept but, as usual with anything, people do things which clutter up the system and make it harder to use.   What I am suggesting is using the same sort of software shazam and soundhound use to identify the fingerprints of songs and group together duplicate tracks. This has many benefits: - People can star the song once and it can now refer those people to all the albums it appears on, improving discover suggestions. - Song popularity will be more accurate as it can add up the popularity from all albums, not just the original one (I have found duplicates can have quite varying ratings despite being the same) - Spotify have to store less songs in their database, saving costly storage space and search times! - People find the songs they want faster and more accurately because there's only one version. - New albums would get instant popularity ratings from any pre-released tracks, giving them a head start. - Album Artwork can be cycled while the track plays, so it's a bit more fun to watch.   Some extensions to this I have thought of include: - Having labels for genuine duplicates which should be kept like 'Mono' 'Live', 'Radio Edit', 'Karaoke' rather than it being part of the track name. - Similarly labelling  ' Cover ', ' Tribute ' etc for songs being sung by unknown groups or cover bands (this can then be used to list associated cover/tribute bands on band pages) - Validating artists of songs using the fingerprint software on segments of the track rather than the whole thing to give credit to the original artists when people remix or sample songs. - Disallowing 'as made famous by' and other references in album titles and track names to the original band when it's a cover.   I am a little OCD, so that's where this mostly stems from, but I do think all of these things would genuinely make spotify better.   Hopefully this resonates with some people and we can see this happen! ... View more

I am used to choose playlists as offline-playlists on my mobile device using the desktop vesion. By clicking on a mobile device (under "Devices") in the left menu the desktop version shows all my playlists. Now i can tick which playlist is supposed to be downloaded to the mobile device.   I'm missing this feature for the new "Your music" section. After saving a song to "Your music" it's not instantly offline aviable on my mobile device. At first I have to search for the new song on my mobile device and then I can choose download. (Unless the artist or album is already marked as offline aviable.)   My suggestion is to implement a management in the desktop version for choosing which artists and albums should be downloaded to connected mobile devices - or rather an extension of the existing menu in the desktop version. Maybe you implement one tab for playlists, another for artists and a third one for albums. ... View more

Firstly, thank you for adding Your Music to the iPad. It has been a long time coming but it has been worth it.   I have a suggested enhancement...instead of queuing tracks individually, I would like to queue an entire album to play.   An album that has been added to the queue should be treated as if it were an individual track: i.e. tracks or albums that I add to the queue should be played after the current album has completed.     ... View more

I imagine most people hate hearing advertisements between individual songs when they're listening to an album in its entirety; but of course, advertising revenue is how Spotify survives. So, since an artist's work is already divided into album playlists, I am requesting a 'Listen to Album' feature, in which a longer-than-usual advertisement break (consisting of one long ad or a group of short ones) is played before playback of the album, which then continues uninterrupted until its end. To prevent cheating the system, if  the user decides to listen to something else (from another playlist) mid-way through, the 'Listen to Album' feature is, of course, stopped or reset. On a related note,  the user will not be able to "skip around" an album without stopping the 'Listen to Album' feature; the tracks must be played in order, which should still satisfy a number of users. ... View more

Previously, I would use a new playlist for every album that I wanted to listen to regularly. This meant that I could open Spotify and have them playing instantly with just a double click.   I do like having a more organised system through the new 'Your Music' features. However, Your Music is slower to operate because I don't have everything I want available in the vertical scrollbar.   I suggest having a button next to Artists or Albums which then expands (like a tree system) to show all of the artists or albums in Your Music in alphabetical order, allowing you to single or double click to view or start playing like you can with Playlists . I personally feel this would be preferable to a tree system in the main window, as previously suggested (but having both options wouldn't hurt). ... View more

I think there should be a finer way to create a radio station you really like. You should be able to rate songs, artists, albums and genres on a finer scale, and then all the ratings would be considered for your personal radio station... The higher a song would be rated, the more often it would play, and broader ratings would carry over into the probability of songs playing, maybe skewed by the other recommendation factors now in place... So that the average assumed rating for otherwise unrated songs in an album, for instance would correspond to the rating of that album, but the individual songs still would play more or less often depending on how popular they generally are and all the other recommendation factors now in place.   There used to be a radio service called Launchcast some years ago which offered that level of customization (they used a rating scale of 0 to 100 for each item), but sadly they stopped broadcasting some years ago. ... View more

...like "I follow"-mark in the artist section. ... View more