Long story short: I am a heavy Spotify user and also a UI designer and this is my proposal for the Desktop app. It's a mix of what we had (and loved) with the latest look.   · All views A top bar that will stay visible and will include: 1. The 3 dots menu 2. The Back and Forward buttons 3. The search bar (removed from sidebar) 4. The user menu 5. An icon to access Preferences faster (to match the home section in mobile app)   · The sidebar sizes were adjusted so the space between the Create Playlists/Liked Songs and the playlists titles are even. The up/down arrows from the scrollbar are back.   · Album View 1. The release date has been added below the album title, the number of songs and length now appear in single lines now. 2. The artist name and photo was increased. 3. The font sizes were changed for a more balanced look between all the texts. 4. The columns were re-ordered, "Plays" were moved to the end. 5. The gradient ends in the Title bar.   (Note: All views will share the same font sizes)     · Artist Page 1. The Play, Follow and more options buttons were moved to the artist's image. 2. The "Popular" songs now renamed as "Most Heard" and appear in 2 columns. 3. Duration has been removed and plays moved below the song title, 6 tracks show now instead of 5. 4. "SEE ALL" was renamed to "SEE MORE". 5. Discography will show entirely as before, the type of view option is back. 6. Only the "Artist Playlist" row will remain complete. 7. There will be 6 sections with 3 options each and their respective "SEE MORE" button. 8. The "Featuring Artist" row has been merged with the "Discovered On" tab has they share a few of the same playlists.         · Your Library 1. Brings back the "Recently Played" option and includes redesigned accesses for Artists / Albums / Playlists / Podcasts and Liked Songs.     · Playlists Design matches album page style and sizes. Old format of columns is back:   ... View more

Guys, I don't know who lied to you and told you this was a good idea, but for the love of everything that is sacred, please bring the search bar back as it was.   It allowed me to search for other things without leaving whatever album or playlist I was listening to or had opened. It allowed me to leave search terms there to remember myself to search for it at the end of the thing I'm listening to. It allowed me to scroll through the home page and search at the same time.   Please, please, please bring it back ;_; (or at least give us the option in the settings to choose to have it) ... View more

Hi! I'd like to leave some feedback on the new Spotify (Premium) Update for Desktop:   I'd first like to say I don't particularly care for this update as a whole. The desktop version of Spotify always had a clean, concise, and smart feel to it that I feel has been replaced with a new, bulkier, and harder-to-navigate update. Some of the biggest features to me that have been changed have been the looks of the: Artist's Page, Podcasts (a HUGE one), and general navigation within your library. To leave this feedback, I want to focus on emphasizing these points.    Artist's Page. For starters, I feel like the artist's page had one of the more minor, "nit-picky", changes that I just don't care for. The entire update is focused on making everything bigger, especially in font size, and therefore it takes up more of the screen in a way I personally just do not care for. The artist's page starts this trend by eliminating the side-by-side look it had previously, whereas some of the artist's information would be next to their top songs, and instead replaces it by just having their top songs in this bigger, bulkier feel. While this change is minor, it makes it harder for new users and old users alike to discover more from the artist. It formats all this information, their discography, their information, etc, into a list-like format that feels too "mobile smartphone" to me. I understand the consensus of the update, in a way to make the Spotify program feel more universal on all the different platforms, but simply, I do not think it looks well done on Desktop.    Podcasts. Arguably one of the biggest and most difficult changes that was made in this update was the update made to podcasts. Spotify has always been where I find and listen to all my wonderful podcasts and I've loved doing so on this platform, the look of how the episodes was always clean, put together nicely, and again, concise. However, in the new update, with this bulkier and more large feel, it feels as though every episode has been made into its own individual podcast page. For starters, every episode now has its own page for its description which I frankly do not think is necessary. It creates this hard-to-navigate system where if I want to read a full description, I'm redirected to an entirely new page that makes it less accessible to read all the descriptions I may want to read that do not need their own individual pages. Not only to mention, these individual pages cannot take you to the next podcast episode, meaning that once you click on a minor detail, the description, you are taken to a new page entirely that you have to again click off of to go back to your entire discography of episodes. Put simply, I do not understand the reasoning behind this change. It makes the program harder to navigate and more over-beared, in a feature it does not need to have in my opinion. Again, it plays into this "big" theme for this update where everything is larger than it needs to be, and makes it more difficult to find what you're looking for. Secondly, in similarity to the last comment, another change about the Podcasts page I highly dislike is again, their big look. In this update every episode is made bigger, meaning that even on a big(/bigger) sized monitor you can only fit nearly five episodes on a screen at a time. This wouldn't be that big of a deal if not for the fact that most of the podcasts I listen to, and most people listen to if they're a long-time podcast enjoyer, have many episodes, upwards of 500 for one of the podcasts I listen to, or upwards of 100 for another. This means that simply because of this bulkier feel, it involved more scrolling and more navigation that should be something simple to get to.  Thirdly, and perhaps one of the most irking to me personally, is the way Podcasts queues are now approached. Before, you could click on your current episode of your podcast and listen from there in whatever way you formatted the list (from newest to oldest, oldest to newest, etc.). However, with this new update, it treats podcasts as if they're on a constant shuffle, like a song. No matter how you format your list (and your format will reset every time you go onto that same podcast's page), you will always be auto-queued into a random episode of that same podcast, likely one you've already heard. Not only is this highly annoying to be listening to a podcast episode and then be shuffled to a random episode afterward, but it also causes your playback of that random episode to be altered. If I've listened to a podcast episode before, I want my "completion" bar to show that I was at the end of that episode, not that I clicked off some odd amount of seconds through because the random queue auto-played me onto the next episode. Again, this is another change I see no real validation behind. Not only can you not control how your podcast plays as you could before (without doing it manually every time) but now your playback times are interrupted by this weird and too song-like way of auto-play that you cannot turn off. I do like the new feature of showing when you've played through an entire episode of the podcast, it feels nice and clean. However, again, this feature isn't complete. It doesn't show you the episodes you have perhaps halfway listened through (as it did before) UNTIL you click on that individual episode that doesn't display the "played" status. Ideally, you'd be shown both a "completely played" status and a status to show you how much of a certain episode you had listened to, to know what episode you were on like it did in the previous version of Spotify Desktop. Additionally, nearly no one listens to podcasts on shuffle. Even podcasts that are non-linear I listen in chronological order because that's the way the series was created and will continue to be created, making this queue situation even more unjustifiable.    General Navigation Within Your Library. This is another smaller complaint of mine that revolves around navigation of the section under your library. Previously, podcasts, artists, albums, and every "sub-header" you see now under the library was under the Library header at the left of your screen, making these "sub-sections" easier to navigate. When I wanted to listen to podcasts, then music, then back to podcasts again previously, it had a much easier way to it than now, even putting aside all of the changes made to the podcast section alone. It makes these sections harder to access quickly and easily, making it more frustrating to an old user who utlizies these features. Everyone listens to music in a different way; so although I understand and recognize that the Spotify listening experience is focused on creating your own playlists, often this is not how every listener listens to music. I for one listen to music almost solely by artist and albums, meaning that playlist features, especially in emphasis as they've been put in in this update, render the features I access most, harder to get to. Not only does this limit the way people can listen to music on Spotify, but also does it take away from these other wonderful features, like supporting whole artists, or listening to podcasts, which are big selling points for the Spotify program. Put simply, these new updates are creating a problem with restrictions within their own content.   Concludingly, I generally dislike the whole of this new update for desktop. I'm a strong believer in the idea of "if something isn't broken, don't fix it" and I feel like that massively applies to the new updates creating with a lot of large and leading platforms, namely Instagram and now, Spotify. The previous look of Spotify was one I, and millions of other users, was comfortable with and used to, and was a large reason I continue to use Spotify. It is incredibly frustrating when a program you enjoy updates and exclusively takes away some of those small, key features while replacing them with nothing worthwhile as a trade-off.    For recommendations on improvement, I first recommend maybe finding a happy medium between this update and the last. Not every update has to create this uproar for a program and create it as something entirely new because, put frankly, the reason people enjoy a certain program is because it looks how they enjoy it looking. Another way you could tackle this issue is by creating more customizable features between how each individual wants their Spotify to look. That way, even if there was a base "original" look to Spotify, a user could reorient things as they see fit and customize their listening experience to how they want it, not how the program wants them to listen. This is a feature I vouch for in so many programs, again, namely Instagram and Spotify because these apps have come in with overriding updates recently, creating thousands of users unhappy with the new look. This customization feature would bring something entirely new to the table for Spotify, boosting its marketability by having each listening experience neatly directed to how each listener individually wants to listen, a feature not mimicked by other competitors. Or, for a more simple change, you could even just put a "toggle new update" or "toggle old update" that could switch you between the two. This feature alone would be unprecedented and so highly appreciated by so many unhappy users.    Thank you for your time reading this! I care so deeply for Spotify and my music experience on its platform, but as this program and others move away from user customizability, it becomes harder and harder for me to enjoy my listening/user experience on them.  ... View more

The Recently Played section has disappeared in the last desktop player update. This is a very key feature that I used almost every day, as I frequently jump between user playlists that I don't add to my library, and now it is just not possible to find them again easily. ... View more

The new UI has been rough enough on my eyes that it has caused eye strain, to the point of headaches. The deep black sidebars, along with the colored bar on the top of the screen while viewing a playlist, is really rough on my eyes. I always have Spotify open on my second monitor - with the old UI, it had a lot of neutral colors, which helped tons.   I would like some form of customization or selection of themes to use, instead of being forced to a default. Even something like a "compact" theme to make playlists display like they used to, or a "dark sidebars" toggle in the settings would work. (Discord has done something similar, if that helps give reference, in their Appearance settings on the desktop app.) ... View more

I just got used to where everything is and finding things quickly and now this ugly as heck update comes out and I have to learn it all again, plus it's just not as easy to use. Can you at least add the option for the older style UI, since you'll likely ignore all the feedback and stick with this inferior look? ... View more

It appears the improved functionality in the desktop app that differentiated it from the webplayer has been removed in the current version.   For playlists that have lots of music, it is very useful to be able to sort those playlists.   We look forward to this feature being restored. ... View more

My desktop is not a phone! I don't need gigantic boxes in my lists of songs on a playlist. I would prefer to see a text list, not scroll through 6 songs at at time. Please give us the option to choose between the new UI and the old, compact, cleaner UI. ... View more

New interface is not so bad, but I noticed several annoying aspects: 1. Search bar has gone from top of every page, and this is very uncomfortable to click on search first and then click on search bar and only the type something to search. 1 extra action, as you can see. 2. V olume slider has gone from fullscreen view - what??? Why now I have to escape from fullscreen view, then set a volume and then go back? I t doesn't look like there is no space for v olume slider on fullscreen view. 3. Play bar in fullscreen view became unactive for some reason - similar to previous problem. 4. Escape from fullscreen view button also has gone from bottom right corner, just why??? No I have to move my mouse to the top right corner - extra action again. Fullscreen view started to look quite raw and unfinished!   I hope for your understanding and thanks for your attention! ... View more

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. ... View more

The new desktop update sucks. Please unhide the search bar (seriously, why would you hide it?) and order discography chronoligically (you know, the way that would make the most sense). Please also keep discography split into albums and singles, rather than merging them like you have now. It was way better the old way.   Really though, the search bar thing is absolutely disgraceful.   ... View more

The new update for the web app moved the search feature to the left side of the program. I think it's better when it was on the top of the program, it doesn't really need its own section on the left. ... View more

The Google Chrome app has a mini-player, but for some reason the desktop version doesn't. That would be super nice to have, and doesn't seem too hard to implement (it has already been put in the chrome version..) ... View more

I would like an "advanced" playlist manipulation  and query options with the following features: 1. Permanently shuffle playlist order 2. Set operations. Eg: Remove songs from playlist X which also appear in playlist Y. or Show me all songs appearing in BOTH playlist X and Y. 3. Split playlist X into smaller playlists of at most n number of items (eg 30) 4. Identify artists which appear more than once per playlist   I like to make music recommendation playlists, but sometimes it is difficult to avoid duplicate recommendations from memory.  I maintain a playlist "all previous recommendations" and one for possible future recommendations, but in order to screen future recommendations, I have to use a third temporary playlist, when all I really want to do is clean  the future recommendations bucket.   ... View more

I would like the option to permanently dislike a featured artist like on mobile that I can choose for "Don't play this artist" e.g for several weeks now various artists and gamechops have appeared in my release calendar. I have absolutely no interest in this band   But I dont have the option to remove the featured artist, which just means the following week a new artist pop ups with gamechops as featured and I have no way to prevent this. I have event tried blocking gamechops on android but makes no difference     ... View more

It would be nice to have a filter to screen out racist, sexist and otherwise bigoted content in music and especially podcasts.  I'm really tired of getting suggestions for those podcasts just because of my demographic profile and zip code (I'm guessing). ... View more

Within minutes of using the new UI (version 1.1.56.595.g2d2da0de-a), I ran into a host of problems. SUPER frustrating for me as a weekly playlist builder. These problems are on Windows 10 (multiple computers), not on mobile. 1. Playlist title display is CUT OFF when longer (see screenshot) 2. Playlist description displays garbage characters instead of quotes, for example, (see screenshot) 3. Playlist description says only 200 characters available--when 300 are already being used--so you can't edit it without deleting 100 characters first! Mobile still says and uses 300! (see screenshot) 4. Unable to select more than 1 track at a time (shift & control click, and select all functions won't work). Aaaaarrrrrgggghhhh. HELP! I had to use all 3 interfaces to update my playlist last night (mobile, desktop, and web); because each was incapable of doing certain things. I used to do it all on desktop; but it is thoroughly broken. ... View more

In the latest update the notification area of new songs from artists you follow was removed. I want it back! At the moment there is no point to follow any artist because email or mobile push nofications don't work either. I want to see new songs from the artists I follow somehow. ... View more

There are many keyboard shortcuts in the Spotify Desktop app, but not one to simply add the playing song to liked songs. The only way to do this is to use the mouse to click the very small heart icon. I have Spotify minimised most of the time or on a screen that's switched off, so the process of "liking" a song is long-winded and i frequently don't bother even though I would like to save the song.    A simple keyboard shortcut like Ctrl + or Ctrl L would be great!!! So I don't have to even look at the app.    I've found a couple of previous ideas to bring this in as a feature, together they reached much more than 100 votes.  Please take this into consideration!   Thank you   https://community.spotify.com/t5/Closed-Ideas/Desktop-Add-shortcuts-hotkeys-to-like-amp-dislike-songs/idi-p/4659618 https://community.spotify.com/t5/Closed-Ideas/Keyboard-shortcut-to-star-the-playing-song/idi-p/24551 https://community.spotify.com/t5/Closed-Ideas/Keyboard-Shortcut-to-Add-a-Song-to-Your-Music/idi-p/12... https://community.spotify.com/t5/Closed-Ideas/Desktop-Keyboard-Shortcut-to-Save-Song-to-Your-Music/i... https://community.spotify.com/t5/Closed-Ideas/Desktop-Radio-Global-keyboard-shotcuts-to-like-dislike... https://community.spotify.com/t5/Closed-Ideas/Desktop-Global-Hotkey-for-thumbs-up-and-down/idi-p/325... ... View more