The new UI update is absolute garbage and makes navigating ANYTHING a chore. There are NUMEROUS bugs that make my listening experience annoying at best. I absolutely hate everything about it and think the designers and managers in charge of this update should be immediately terminated from the company because their input is a great route to completely ruining a product.   I have been subbed to Spotify for more than 6 consecutive years and I am **bleep** at this completely disgusting UI change. The web devs who made it aren't even fit to customize a myspace page let alone an industry leading app. ... View more

As a user, I would like to be able to hide all podcast content, so that I could focus on what I use Spotify for - music and music only.   This option could be available in the upper left corner hamburger menu (on pc) -> view -> show podcasts -> yes/no mark.   This action would hide the podcasts from the main view and would not give any podcast recommendations or anything similar to the user.   ... 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

Idea: Enable fast-forwarding of songs/podcasts in the Spotify app for Garmin watches. Context: Currently the Spotify music player for Garmin watches cannot fast forward songs. Supposedly by leaving pressed the "next song" button ("|>") you should be able to, but it seems this functionality is not implemented (tested on Forerunner 735).  People often use the app to listen to podcasts, if you want to resume a 45 minute podcast, your only option is to listen to it from the beginning.    Documented cases supporting this claim: https://forums.garmin.com/sports-fitness/running-multisport/f/forerunner-945/233247/spotify-skip-fast-forward-podcast-playlist https://forums.garmin.com/sports-fitness/healthandwellness/f/vivoactive-4-series/258665/fast-forward-scrub-through-playback-location-on-songs https://forums.garmin.com/sports-fitness/running-multisport/f/forerunner-645-645-m/213092/spotify-always-starts-from-beginning-of-podcast-and-it-is-hard-to-skip-forward-to-resume-a-podcast/1158429#1158429 https://forums.garmin.com/sports-fitness/running-multisport/f/forerunner-245-series/233436/fr245-music---can-t-skip-forward-on-playlist-of-podcasts   ... View more

Introduction Those of us using the Spotify Developer API to integrate with our solutions are finding it difficult keeping a real-time view of what is being played. We are having to repeatedly hammer the API to get playback status updates at least every couple of seconds for it to be reliable.   This not only wasteful of resources for both ourselves and the Spotify infrastructure team, it's also slow and burns through API limits pretty quickly resulting in our calls being temporarily blocked, rendering real-time stuff useless.    New feature proposal Provide access to Spotify websockets. This would not only reduce demand on Spotify's web API servers, it would speed up response times for integrated services and improve the quality of service for Spotify, ourselves as developers and service users alike.   Spotify already has websockets in use for the Web Player (and a few premium clients), however these are locked down and we are not permitted to access it. The code is already there and should hopefully be easy to implement by the Spotify dev team and would really help us third-party developers out.   What are websockets? For the layman who is curious what we're talking about here, websockets are a widely-used method for getting "push notifications" of updates by opening a single, long-running data connection over which updates are only fed when necessary.   It's much faster, less overhead, uses less resources overall and prevents having to repeatedly hammer the Spotify API like this;   connect -> poll playback status -> wait for a response -> analyse response -> disconnect -> process playback data -> sleep 2 seconds -> connect -> poll...   With websockets it would look more like this;   connect -> spotify sends current playback status -> (no data sent whilst user listens to track) -> track changed, spotify sends new playback status   As you can hopefully see, this is far more efficient. Spotify dev team, please make this a reality, it'll help both ourselves and yourselves.   Previous thread; https://community.spotify.com/t5/Spotify-for-Developers/Access-to-websockets/td-p/4955299 ... View more

Listen to your customers and revert back to the previous UI. And please do it now! ... View more

On the mobile version of Spotify, I can see the full release date on a particular track/album/release. On the desktop version, there's only the year. I run a music blog and it would be ideal to have the full release date on the desktop app. This way I don't need to check my phone each time I hear something new and need to confirm when it released. It should be a very easy thing to implement since you already have it working on the mobile experience. Please do this 🙂 ! It will make the desktop experience better! ... View more

The Spotify Web API is wonderful but it's lacking a very important route: Getting a user's queue. Are there any plans to add this feature in the near future? ... View more

Hello!   I've been having this idea for a couple of years now - I would really like it if we would be able to see how long (in time) it is going to take to play our queue. Just like it states on top of playlists how long (in hrs and mins) it takes to listen to the entire playlist, I think this would make a lot of sense for the queue as well. Imagine how nice it would be; You are going to travel for an hour, and you can just add songs to your queue until you fill up an hour of music! I always find it a shame when I have to stop my music because I have arrived somewhere but I had so many more great songs queued. This would be the perfect solution for such situations! I am sure I am not the only one who would appreciate this, I know many music lovers around me who would become an even bigger fan of Spotify! Just like me 😉 ... View more

I love spotify I really do.  Many compare it to apple music and I wanted to see what apple music had that was so admirable. A few things I enjoyed about apple music was its lyric feature and sound quality.  Spotify, adding lyrics would be extremely helpful as new songs are added everyday to the streaming platform!  Maybe even enhancing the sound quality as well will provide listeners with a better listening experience.  ... View more

Radio and Autoplay should be able to replace the upcoming song or songs in the playlist with non explicit versions if the user has the Allow Explicit Content option disabled.   Currently if you start radio with a non explicit version of a song, you're taken to the playlist with explicit songs even though each one may have a non explicit version available. Pandora does this automatically. ... View more

With the release of WatchOS 7, it should now be possible for Spotify to add offline listening capabilities to the Spotify Apple Watch app (see Apple’s new AVFoundation: “Users can play locally-synced playlists or podcasts while on the go”). Please allow subscribers to download playlists to the watch itself so non-LTE watch owners can use the service solely with an Apple Watch and Bluetooth headphones.  ... View more

On desktop and web player versions of Spotify, ever since the new update (April 2020) it's been so much harder to view words, in general. Mainly the problem is the sidebar (left). Making the words more dim/lighter colour font is terrible for view-abilities. Can they just change back to the old layout??!! It was fine the way they did things but after the update it almost impossible to see words (even as a person with glasses I have to strain to see it!!! )!! Especially as an accessibility issue, people with bad eyesight or low view or simply with the different screen settings across people devices, can't see the playlists they have saved (not the ones the user themselves have created)  via the side bar nor the "home"/"search"/"your library" icon button unless it's highlighted. My friend with low vision and is legally blind says she has been needing to turn up the screen's brightness in order to see and use Spotify more clearly. And we don't wanna blind ourselves with the brightness just to be able to use Spotify every time, right?!   The simple solution should be: Spotify either needs to have brighter font or completely change the background of the black/dark grey to something different that's not dark. Not that I ever liked the dark background colour in the first place....  On other platforms this is not ever an issue. Take iTunes for example, in general the background is whiteish and fonts are black coloured. So easy to see everything.  But nope, not in Spotify...   GO BACK TO THE OLD THING OR FIX THIS SO SPOTIFY CAN BE MORE ASSESSABLE AND HAVE BETTER VIEWABILITY FOR ALL USERS! ... View more

I've had Spotify for a long time now, soon 10 years, tried Apple music for a while but it's simply not anywhere near as good. But now I'm seriously considering leaving Spotify for Apple Music, this has been a broadly requested feature for a while now and Spotify still hasn't done anything.    I assume it's not a technical issue since if Apple can do it, so should Spotify... ... View more

As one designer to another, I know what it's like when you have to do major changes to the UI of a product. You have to usually ease the user in so that they are shocked and completely reject it. I gave as fair a shot to the new UI that I could, but...my dudes, this is a step back. You've made it so much more difficult to be able to browse for new artists and actually discover new music on your own by removing the browse option from the sidebar. You've made it a chore on the dashboard to do such as well which is so disappointing. Clicking into artists, I loved having all of the albums and songs laid out all at once so that I could just shuffle through all their discography at once (which was still flawed as it didn't actually loop through ALL the songs, but I live a simple life and will only ask for so much). I absolutely hate that I have to go album by album or create my own playlist in order to do this now. It's created so much more work for the user and it isn't efficient or a satisfying experience. Please bring back the way the old UI was. It was a benefit to both the average listener and your artists, who are pretty much the lifeblood of your application. ... View more

So this idea idea has been posted before in a different format and it was closed. The 100 likes in year is a bit aggressive. It could be that not enough users visit the ideas page. I'm sure it would have gotten 100 likes within the year if people knew it was suggested.   Here's the original link... It got over 400 likes. https://community.spotify.com/t5/Closed-Ideas/Partnership-Chrome-OS-native-App/idi-p/1016646/page/11#comments   I'd like to reopen it since many of us are now using Chromebooks, and do not have Windows PCs. In general, Spotify should update the web based app/player and provide the exact same functionality as the Windows PC app and then synchronize both as enhancements are applied. It would be nice to be able to upload local files from a Chromebook and have the same folder and sorting functionality. At the moment I see a lot of issues with the web player and it doesn't seem to get the attention it needs.   - Jason   ... View more

My account was hacked, and I don't want to see the things that were played by that person. There is no option to remove Items from recently played. Can we get that option? ... View more

spotify over apple music but like i’m hard of hearing and have many deaf friends, spotify has genius but it only shows a second of the lyrics. like no really gives af where the artist is from or what the lyrics mean people do that on their free time if they are curious. surprised spotify hasn’t made this features for their hard of hearing / deaf subscribers.... and we in 2021 ... View more

Apple Music has one of the best live lyric models. That is what I have LOVED about Apple Music. I switched back to Spotify and find myself wondering if i made the right choice because of not being able to sing to your favorite song, or even know what the lyrics are without having to go into a different app or online. Really thought live lyrics would be a thing across the board by now. ... View more