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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.

Eran113 · ‎2020-07-12

The "genius" feature constantly shows some background of how the lyrics came to be. I just want to read the lyrics without reading stuff I don't care about.

erincavan · ‎2019-08-20

Taylor Swift’s newest album Lover is due to come out on Friday and turning the whole app pink would be an amazing way to celebrate the release.

wit_sec_birb · ‎2018-04-24

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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.

Spaceboy88 · ‎2020-12-13

I want to be able to opt-out of Spotify's A/B testing. You've taken away canvas from me, as well as a plethora of other great features in the name of testing. Please allow at least paying users the ability to opt-out of being in A/B testing groups so I keep the features I'm paying for and have come to expect. This is a horrible user experience for people like me that are paying $15 a month on a family plan and not getting all the features that even my friends on free plans get.

interactivematt · ‎2020-09-01

Now that Spotify is investing more in video, I think it's important to allow for flexibility in how users watch videos on their devices. By allowing for Picture-in-Picture (PiP), users would be able to play Spotify videos in the background, which is not only a major enhancement to the current experience, but is also more consistent with how audio works in Spotify. On iOS and Mac, more and more apps are adopting the native PiP functionality, including Safari, YouTube, Twitch, etc. I think it would be good for Spotify to do the same.

user-removed · ‎2020-08-14

I am listening at work to a maximum concentration playlist, which really helps me concentrate on my work without being distracted by my environment. However, this playlist does not reflect my personal music taste, I am ONLY listening to it at work. Therefore I would prefer to somehow mark this playlist as private, which means that whenever I start playing this playlist, it should not be part of my listening history, nor should Spotify's recommendation algorithms take these songs into consideration.

dwaynebeatrice · ‎2020-06-11

WayV's songs are included in the playlist This Is NCT, and i suggested to remove them. I'm looking forward to it. They recently released their 1st Full Album called 'Awaken The World'. They already have 1 single digital called 'The Vision', 2 Mini Album called Take Off and Take Over The Moon, and released an english version of Love Talk which is a song from Take Over The Moon album. In total, there are already 26 songs. And WayV is the first chinese group to exceed 1 Million Listeners on spotify. I'm suggesting spotify to give them their seperate playlist, so we can listen to WayV's songs on repeat and besides, WayV deserves it. I'm hoping and looking forward to this. Thank you so much.

amknana12 · ‎2020-07-19

Recently, Spotify (at least in my iOS app) has added a very helpful feature which is lyrics. It finally collaborated with Musixmatch (thanks God why haven't you done this sooner). Problem is, I am an Indonesian listener who is familiar with Latin alphabet. I loved many Asian songs, which we know, are not written in language using those Latin alphabets, namely K-Pop, J-Pop, or you name it. Those songs' lyrics are still shown in their original alphabet (K-Pop in hangeul, J-Pop in kanji and hiragana, etc). Usually, foreign listeners are able to sing-a-long by looking at the romanization version. Now I know that Musixmatch indeed does not have that romanization lyrics, but Genius does and I know Spotify has partnership too with Genius, I guess? So, why not give a choice for listeners to choose between Genius or Musixmatch? TL;DR: 1. We want romanized lyrics to Asian songs or any songs not using Latin alphabet 2. Give options for Spotify listeners to choose which version to show 3. If Spotify can no longer show Genius' service, push Musixmatch so that they make romanized lyrics available. Sincerely, Global Spotify member.

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...

cedric_c · ‎2020-09-04

I and many others have been very dissatisfied to see that certain episodes of the Joe Rogan Experience have been excluded from Spotify presumably because of their controversial nature. Fans of the show do not want to see it being influenced by Spotify. Exclusion of these episodes demonstrates content influence and implies that, at the very least, future shows with the same guests and/or covering the same topics as those removed will not be available on Spotify. The mass appeal of JRE and the subscriptions of those intended to be brought to Spotify by the acquisition of JRE will be lost if the excluded episodes are not added to the catalog and future shows are uninfluenced by Spotify. Spotify has a chance to take their subscriber base to the next level that is being squandered. I will be cancelling my subscription and will encourage others to do the same, and as you're surely aware from the current social media backlash, many others are doing the same. I intend to reinstate my subscription if Spotify meets the requests of their subscribers. I hope my idea is helpful.

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.

n8tewill · ‎2020-09-01

I’ve been listening to Podcasts for a year or two now and one of the biggest components of a great podcast is the comment section. This is vital for a podcasts success because the comment section is where a podcasts community can connect with each other, which gives the podcast a little bit of flavor If Spotify can add a comment section to its podcasts page, then it will most definitely kill YouTube podcasting and give you guys most of the market share 😉 and i know you guys love market share

rinangel · ‎2021-02-24

One major shortcoming of spotify is how little it actually suggests new music for me to listen to. Songs that I have liked or added to playlists are put on my daily mixes and song radios far more frequently than other songs, and there are some songs that I can count on seeing on EVERY SINGLE song radio within a genre, for MONTHS. I think it would be helpful if there was a function to "turn off" a song for a period of time - as in, I like it, but I'm tired of hearing it every single day on my daily mixes. Something that would remove a song from being selected for a couple weeks at a time would be great. As you can see by my attachments, I currently have Criminal by Taemin within the first 5 songs on EVERY kpop related radio station. It's a great song but if I ever hear it again I might put my head through a wall.

edsox5 · ‎2020-12-22

Seems simple enough, give me an option to flag a song as "Do Not Play"....ever (until I choose to unflag)! Let's say I am listening to an album and I just detest a song on it, I would love that song to be automatically skipped every time I listen to that album. While I do understand I can make a custom playlist, alter queue....etc, a simple right click and choice of "Do Not Play" would be really really nice, assuming it sticks forever. Thank you for considering

KimUniLi · ‎2020-10-08

Hey Spotify team, We, the students of the University of Liechtenstein, would love to also benefit from the spotify premium student membership. At the moment when you try to register you can’t even pick the country Liechtenstein. As our University consists of more than 700 students we would appreciate it a lot if you add our University to the discount.

Crossbnz · ‎2018-12-03

Hello, Just imagine a situation: You are sitting in the bus. And listening to your favourite music on headphones. When you notice a cute person who is sitting in the bus too, and really enjoying the music, while shaking head with the beat. So curious.. WHAT SHE/HE IS LISTENING TO?! How to know that? You take your phone from your pocket and open spotify app. There you see everyperson in 50m radius who is using Spotify and shares their music. And you see that she is listening for A-HA - TAKE ON MEE!. You connect to her music and listen to this song also. And when the bus stops, you leave it and say to her/him: ARE YOU PLANNING TO GO TO A-HA CONCERT THIS SUMMER? I LOVE THIS SONG TOO. And you live happily ever after ❤️ THE END (Or maybe just a beginning 🙂 ___ So, the thing is : a possibility to look for surrounding spotify users and see what they are listening. A possibility to connect to their song. A possibility to turn ON or turn OFF music sharing (maybe you would like a private moment, and dont want to see everyone listening for your "shame songs" haha! I personally really really often pass a person with headphones and am very very curious, what they are listening to that moment. LIKE THIS IDEA? PLEASE VOTE UP AND LETS CREATE EVEN BETTER, CONNECTED SPOTIFY COMMUNITY Cheers, Arturas from Lithuania

nglushak · ‎2020-07-20

Podcasts is a great feature, available in Spotify either for Free and Premium plans, and as an Ukraine region user I am really missing podcasts section in my account. I understand that podcasts availability in region depends on licensing but since general availability of Spotify happened I don't think podcasts will be an issue.

Nanio · ‎2020-12-03

Problem: When content is reported for policy violations it is taken down automatically. The user can then write an appeal. Spotify support will check this appeal. If no policy violations have been found, support will allow the user to reupload their content. This tool get abused by m alevolent actors who report the same content over and over again. Each time the content is removed automatically and the user has to go through the same process to recover their content. Again and again. For the same content. As the content has already been reviewed by the Spotify support team once, this process seems neither efficient nor fair. Solution: Allow the support team to flag content on a profile or playlist as “Reviewed”. If the same content is now reported again, the content should not be taken down automatically. Instead, the person who reported the incident should get an automatic message that states that the content has been reviewed before and no violations have been found. To protect the rights of copyright holders from mistakes, they can still open a ticket to state their case. This ticket is then reviewed by support and decide if the content should be removed. Advantages: Same level of security for copyright holders Less support tickets for Spotify Higher user and artist satisfaction

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Closed Ideas

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

[All Platforms][Other] Just lyrics

[All Platforms] Turn Spotify Pink for the Release of Lover

[Partnership] Payments with Verge (XVG) Cryptocurrency

[All Platforms][Shows] Infowars

[All Platforms] Allow Pro Users to Opt-Out of A/B Testing

[All Platforms][Podcasts] Picture-in-Picture (PiP) Mode

[All Platforms][Playlists] Activate private session permanently for certain playlists

[All Platforms][Spotify for Artists] Let artist WayV have their own playlist

[All Platforms][Other] Romanized Lyrics for Songs Not In Latin Alphabet

[Playlists] Sort List of Playlists alphabetically

[All Platforms][Podcasts] Include All JRE Episodes and Don't Influence the Content of the Show

[Social] Bring back Inbox/Messaging with Notifications

[All Platforms][Podcasts] Add comments to podcasts!

[All Platforms][Playlists] I need a break from this song!

[All Platforms][Your Library] Blacklist "Do Not Play" option for songs

[All Platforms][Partnership] Spotify Premium Student for Liechtenstein

[Social] CURIOUS TO HEAR WHAT PERSON NEXT TO YOU LISTENING TO? Music Sharing

[All Platforms][Podcasts][Ukraine] Launch podcasts in Ukraine region

[Playlists] Prevent automatic takedown of reviewed content