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Master_Ipse · ‎2014-09-03

Things would be so much easier if you could name your devices! Here are my two reasons: 1. I have two RAZRi and they both show up as XT890 - but which is which?! Custom names would be awesome! 2. I use Spotify on 3 Android devices and in the last weeks almost every time I come online I get kicked out, saying I had more than 3 devices. Now either this is a bug or there is a device I forgot about or something, but custom names would allow for easier identification. When you look at your offline devices in your Account all it says is "android device" - very nondescript!

lexor · ‎2012-12-21

I store my music on an external drive. My hard drive space is too limited to have my entire collection on it when I have a good sized external drive. I've set Spotify's cache (where offline music is stored) to that external drive. That works fine. However, if I start Spotify without my external drive plugged in, rather than saying that Spotify couldn't find the music and to please mount the drive or listen to music via streaming, Spotify starts redownloading all the music that I set to offline and changes the cache location back to the local drive. Even if I then plug my external drive in, it has to redownload all the offline music. This isn't convenient when I have 2,000 offline tracks. That takes a while to download. I would like Spotify to recognize that my external drive isn't mounted and then say: you'll be unable to listen to your offline music. Then pause any syncing until my external drive is plugged back in (and look for the tracks when it gets plugged back in rather than starting syncing all over when all the tracks are still on the external drive). I'm sure I can't be the only person that would like to store their music on an external drive. As it is right now I'm forced to make sure I have my external drive with me wherever I go or not open Spotify on my laptop (because if I do it will have to resync EVERYTHING, even once I plug my drive back in). Thanks for reading and considering 🙂

shinerweb · ‎2012-03-03

At least in the UK and I would assume that other ISP's worldwide may also do the same, employ broadband bandwidth caps/restrictions. Most (good) ISP's also include certain time periods when no cap exists. I'd like to suggest a Spotify configuration option that allows me to restrict the synchronisation/downloading of Offline Content to certain periods. The default operating behaviour could be set to no restriction so as not effect existing users. If 'restricted access' is selected by the user, two further fields consisting of a start and end time would be used to only allow Spotify to perform synchronisation or downloading of Offline material during those times. As an example: my UK based ISP allows me unmetered bandwidth between 12am and 8am. I would set Spotify to only allow synchronisation between 12.30am and 7.30am. Any bandwidth used by Spotify would no longer count towards my monthly bandwidth cap set by my ISP. Regards Chris

neiljones · ‎2014-10-17

It takes 4 taps to go in to offline mode, and another 4 to get back to where I was (and by then have lost my place in the scroll). Logically, I'd just tap the words at the bottom of the screen that tells me which mode I'm in to toggle the mode. Even better would be an automatic offline mode when wifi is unavailable. I'm using iOS 8 on an iPhone 5C Thanks.

oeco · ‎2014-08-21

The idea: be able to limit the number of tracks downloaded/synced for an offline playlist. Example: suppose a followed playlist containing three hundred tracks. The idea would give the option to limit the number of tracks downloaded/synced offline: "Limit download to first 25/50/100 tracks" or "Limit download to 100 random tracks." Reasoning: (1) following a longer playlist (i.e., 300 tracks) that is updated frequently and marked for download results or may result in near constant downloading/syncing on a mobile device, and (2) a 300 track playlist limited to the first or random 25/50/100 tracks would permit more space for other playlists while still offering the listener a substantial taster of what that playlist has to offer. Kudos appreciated if you appreciate this idea.

Orlandobp · ‎2014-08-16

An Enable/Disable Offline mode widget As a user with limited Internet access, the Offline mode is an incredibly useful tool. However, it is kind of annoying to switch every time from the configuration option. A simpme button in my home screen would be perfect. Thanks.

callumstone_ · ‎2016-06-22

I have been bugged for quite some time over the immensely annoying 'available offline' button at the top of my spotify playlist. The amount of times I have accidentally knocked this and immediately lost my 600 offline songs and had to wait until I have wifi again to redownload is painful. I cannot be the only one who has done this several times, how many people must do this and get irritated so much that they switch to apple music for example, obviously resulting in thousands of lost subscription money for spotify. All I ask is that you integrate a remarkably simple 'confirm' screen with a yes/no option so it is almost impossible to accidentally lose all of your offline songs. Many use the offline feature to save their precious data on their phones so i'm sure this will be appreciated. Thanks.

ausomadam · ‎2015-08-06

It would be nice to have a setting that would automatically switch Spotify into offline mode when not connected to wifi.

ikermerchan · ‎2014-11-28

I really appreciate the 'Top hits' feature. I use it a lot. It would be great if we could save 'Top hits' of an artist. Now I use a workaround: to make a regular playlist and put these 10 songs in it. But it's not a proper way to keep clean and tidy the system. I have too many playlists for this purpose that I can't find in "My music - Artists" It would be easier if we could just hit 'save' the same way that we can save any album. This way, we could save in the mobile phone the 10 most important songs of the artists that we follow. And it would be synced with new tunes that get popular.

sptalx · ‎2014-11-14

I've been a Spotify subscriber for 4 or 5 years now, and the three device limit for offline sync has always seemed a bit on the low side. At the moment I regularly use 5 devices (Android smartphone, android tablet, iPad Air, Linux laptop and Windows desktop). Only being able to use three of these for offline access is somewhat annoying (note that Apple iTunes allows 5 devices) This means lots of resyncing and downloading of tracks over mobile data at times (I can easily chew through 700MB+ when I'm travelling - notably when downloading tracks before I end up at a hotel with terrible or heavily filtered/restricted internet or being in an area without 3G). So, please up the limit for number of offline devices. I'm thinking 6 sounds like a more sensible number. You might also want to think about providing users with other options for offline access, where they can choose the most suitable for their use. For example, you could have, say, three options where the user can change between them: "Up to 3 devices, playback is locked out after 30 days of that device not being logged-in to spotify" (default) OR "Up to 6 devices, playback is locked out after 15 days of that device not being logged-in to spotify" OR "An unlimited number of devices, but you must have logged in within the past 48 hours for offline playback to function.")

johnnyproton · ‎2014-11-08

Does Spotify even realize that there are only 2 reasons to pay for this service? One is to stop the Ads, but the other is for Offline use. GOAL: I want to add "Blood Sugar Sex Magik" to my offline playlist. I should be able to search "Red Hot Chili Peppers", find that album, and add it to my offline. IT SHOULD BE THAT SIMPLE -- yes folks. Instead, I will go through the steps that you Sado Masochists deem fit for production: Search for Artist Find the Album Add Album to My Music What???? Where now? Go to My Music Search for Album Ooops, change Filters to show offline music Search for Album Add to Offline Playback **bleep**, I missed the train Seriously, browsing around your library is so frustrating. I can't believe this hasn't been addressed yet.

Egekeskin · ‎2014-05-15

When Listening offline Too many playlists or a complicated subfolder structure makes it impossible to see what you have on that device at that moment. So to be able to trigger a mode in spotify that will show what you have downloaded and ready to listen on that device will help treamendously while browsing.

Intothewild · ‎2014-03-11

I've built up a large collection of playlists over time. What I would really like is the ability to sort my playlists when they are on my devices, so for example I could tell Spotify to put all my offline playlists to the top or sort by artist etc. it's not so much of a problem on my desktop or even iPad but on a smaller screen device such as my iPhone 5 it can be slightly irritating scrolling through all my playlists to find what I've downloaded. I know that this would make my life a lot easier when I'm on the move. Just a thought 🙂

user-removed · ‎2012-03-23

I cannot select "available offline" for starred items. I would like to be able to do this, especially on my iPhone. Update: found solution 2 secs later. being somewhat dumb today. delete this if possible. Solution: http://bit.ly/GS9tiF

Spotify Community

Closed Ideas

Ability to name offline devices

Make Storing Offline Music on an External Drive Easier

Scheduled Offline Synchronisation/Download

Make it easier to switch offline mode on and off

Limit Number of Tracks Synced/Downloaded in a Given Playlist

Offline Mode Widget

Make the 'Available Offline' switch have a confirm button

Offline playback & Wifi

Save 'Top Hits' like we save any album

Permit more than 3 devices to sync for offline access (ideally 6 or more).

Merge/Match an Album in "My Music" to the General Library

"SHOW DOWNLOADED PLAYLISTS AND SONGS ONLY" Mode For OFFLINE Listening

App playlist sorting

Make "Starred" Items "Available Offline"