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ScottyLove · ‎2013-10-01

It baffles me that this option was taken away, but with the latest build of Spotify, which replaced the old inbox with the very unneeded message threads, there is no way to delete messages. I was told to submit this as an idea, but I'm shocked I even have to. Next thing, I'll be submitting an idea to allow me to shut Spotify down after I'm done using it. EDIT: I'd also like to add, as some of you have, that it's somewhat disturbing to find very old messages that I "deleted" two years ago now appearing in my Messages box again. Which means Spotify held on to those private messages, even though I hit that Delete button. Not good. EDIT #2: Hi, everyone. It's been A YEAR AND A HALF since I posted this, and as you can see, even after 19 pages of comments and almost 700 kudos, Spotify hasn't done anything about it besides call it a "good idea". Thanks, Spotify. Because of this issue, and because of Spotify's reluctance to listen to the community on an issue which I feel is way more important than the color of the background, I have barely touched Spotify in the past 6-7 months. There are other alternatives these days. While they may not be perfect, at least they seem to respect my privacy more than Spotify, which is extremely important to me. Keep the comments and kudos coming, friends. I appreciate all of you backing me on this. Hopefully, Spotify will fix this issue at some point in the next decade. Until then, I'll be enjoying other streaming services. EDIT #3: Whelp. Checked back three years after initially posting this to find that the folks at Spotify deemed this invasion of privacy unimportant, and gave it a "Not Right Now", even after 1,268 votes and 33 pages of comments.Much more important that they change the font of that one band's name. Spotify Peeps, being able to delete your private messages shouldn't be an "idea" or even a "suggestion". It should be common sense. But whatever. I've been very happy over at Apple Music. I urge everyone reading this to remain on the free Spotify plan, switch to the free plan, or stop using Spotify altogether. There really are other good options out there. Farewell, and keep the comments and votes coming, people!

Svampmoln · ‎2019-08-12

Here's a weird idea, it's august 2019 and Android has been around for 12 years. Apps and come and gone, some apps have this thing called a widget, something you can place on your homescreen and control the app from. It works really well and you as a company, who state over and over again how you value your users and that you want to be in the forefront of user experience, should really look into developing one...

bjones371 · ‎2014-02-26

Now that the SDK for the Samsung Gear 2 has been released for 3rd party devs, I wondered what the chances of Spotify developing an app for use with the smartwatch were? I know the media controller with the original Galaxy Gear worked but limited you to only the playlist you selected in the first place. Are there any plans to build on that for the Tizen driven Gear 2?

Puddingdwarf · ‎2017-04-12

Today the Ipad app was updated to change the layout to be the same as the Iphone app with the nav bar at the bottom. All i can say is why? Why would you do this? The Ipad app used to essentially use two halfs of the screen serepatly, the left side being the previouse pannel you were on and the right being the one you are on. This worked perfectly and meant you could swap between playlists and tracks easily and it meant there was NO wasted space. This previouse layout was clearly designed for Ipad and worked perfectly and was very userfriendly so WHY WHY WHY would you change it to this: (attachment) Pretty much 80% of the screen is wasted blank space and there is no way to easily see what playlist you are playing. Basically each pannel seen in the image of the previous layout now fills the entire screen and you have to use a back arrow at the top left to go to other pannels. This NEEDS to change, it is not acceptable to change a perfectly good layout to one designed for a much smaller screen for seemingly no reason, the only update note is that they changed the layout to that of Iphones so this update was completely pointless and just ruined the layout. The nav bar being at the bottom is unnecissary, there was nothing wrong with it being at the side. Whats happened is a high up who has no idea about what people want or anything about thier own app have told thier team to bring out an update because one hasnt been out for a while even though thier is no need for one. I seriously hope more people get on Spotifys **bleep** about this because this needs to be changed because frankly it less userfriendly then the previouse layout and ugly AF. Once again we see a software provider updating thier software for no good reason only to make things worse, these companies need to understand that thiers nothing wrong with leaving something the way it is. If it aint broke dont fix it!

tscosj · ‎2016-01-10

Needless to say, this "little green weird arrow" is an imporatnt part of UI, it's telling us, users, we are ready to play our songs on the offline... but what if? IMHO, it's such a waste of "territory" by adding it in the right sight just between "words" and "black" line. What if... that would be great to turn into green the other side, look at this... Thanks for your attention! :)

SchneckiSchneck · ‎2016-11-21

Why is it now at the bottom below the song that's now playing? It's taking up 1cm of the screen. Now it's harder to have an overview over all the song in Playlists. Please add at least an option to remove it from there! Or at least to only show this bar with a swipe from the bottom up, I think that would be great. I know I have a big device where it doesn't really matter, but there are a lot small devices out there. And the new menu is really annoying to use if you are used to other apps. Please also read the comments below, there are a lot of great ideas :)

skryde · ‎2016-01-05

As the user f1micro said in this closed idea, it would be awesome to have a headless client for Spotify which could be controlled from a web page or from a mobile app. I also would like that the build were available to ARM/Rpi architecture. Actually, this is really important to me (: Please make it happend!! :D Thx, Sebastian.

oscaroscar · ‎2015-11-19

Hi, I'm Oscar, from the Netherlands. And I'd like to introduce a new feature on Spotify for Android, which is actually not that new. What do we need? Many headphones/headsets have in-line buttons on them. On many phones and apps, these buttons can be used as a music-remote. Most headphones have 1 button, with multiple functions: Press button once: pause/resume music Press button twice: next track Press button three times: previous track, or restart currently playing track. SEE ATTACHMENT This feature is already available on Spotify for Windows Phone and iPhone. Other music-apps on Android such as Deezer, Youtube and Android's default music player also support the feature. What is the problem? Spotify on Android does not support this (pretty basic, but handy) feature yet. :'( How could it be solved? If Deezer can do it, you can do it too. :) There must be some sort of code/API in Android for this feature, which I think only takes a few minutes to insert into the Spotify codex. It would be very nice if Spotify could add the feature to their Android app. What do you guys think about this feature? And, most importantly, do you want it too?

Andrey2016 · ‎2016-07-26

Hello ! Like many in Russia, I will manifest myself a big fan of your music service . Very many people in our country want to see your service and fully enjoy . Please come to us , we run Spotify and you'll get millions of users and more popular in our country .

Scriven_j · ‎2014-04-25

PLEASE STOP REMOVING FUNCTIONALITY! Spotify have this annoying habit of removing functionality from new versions of the software and you only find out about it once you have upgraded. Examples just in the last month are:- Starred Playlists http://community.spotify.com/t5/Spotify-Ideas/Bring-Back-Starred-Playlists-System/idi-p/729851 Add to playlists offline http://community.spotify.com/t5/Spotify-Ideas/Bring-Back-quot-Add-to-Playlist-quot-in-Offline-Mode-for-mobile/idi-p/740591 The Library http://community.spotify.com/t5/Spotify-Ideas/Bring-back-the-library/idi-p/738823 Sorting in search results http://community.spotify.com/t5/Spotify-Ideas/Bring-Back-Sorting-in-Search-Results/idi-p/757011 What's new http://community.spotify.com/t5/Spotify-Ideas/Bring-quot-What-s-New-quot-back-Get-rid-of-quot-Discover-quot/idi-p/381452 The old GUI https://community.spotify.com/t5/Spotify-Ideas/Black-background-and-white-text-physically-hurts-amp-creates/idi-p/730341 Other examples of note are playlist total length times which took 10 months to get back after it was removed. People hate change anyway and given that losing functionality is a bad thing, I would suggest that instead of just enforcing loss of functionality on us, you publicise what you are planning to remove and why and then let people vote on it, rather than forcing us to try and gather people that agree with us that stuff should be reimplemented..... Yours in hope, Jon Scriven (scriven_j)

ruun_baboon · ‎2017-01-11

Really loving the Google Home integration with Spotify, but I wish it had more commands. One I miss in particular is "Play [song] next" or "Add [song] to queue", just like the right-click command "Add to Queue" on desktop or the tap-and-hold "Add to Up Next" on mobile.

javesala · ‎2015-11-10

Spotify app for AppleTV (4th gen) tvOS.

regnbogafoli · ‎2015-06-26

It would be really nice if there was an option in the Spotify desktop client to pause when the computer is locked and to resume when the computer is unlocked. There already exists an standalone Windows application that does this: https://code.google.com/p/spotify-auto-pauser/ but after changes to the Spotify desktop client last autumn/winter it stopped working - and it would of course be better to have this integrated into the Spotify client. I don't know if there is anything equivalent available for OS X users. This should be optional as in some cases this preferred behavior, for example when using Spotify at the workplace and in other cases it might not be preferred...

Eorsak · ‎2017-01-11

A way to loop an individual song without making a playlist would be nice. Like a option in the dropdown menu that you could use to start playing it on loop. Thanks to @musicblaster for some nice use cases! Use case: As a performing artist, I use Spotify to listen to songs and would like to work out passages by repeat-playing only short segments of songs in a loop forever. Use case: As a hobbyist DJ, I want to use Spotify at a party and easily loop some portions of songs. Use case: When running a haunted house, I want to play just the few creepy sound effects of this one song forever.

StepanOrt · ‎2016-01-16

I don't understand why this feature wasn't implemented with Chromecast support, but it is very important for me. Please, add feature to scrobble track played on Chromecast to Last.fm account of device which initiated the playback. This might be related to [Spotify Connect] Scrobble to Last.fm and [Sony] Add Last.fm support to PS3/PS4 App, because scrobbling is unavailable on other devices too.

davidyork · ‎2015-07-06

While recent versions of Spotify Desktop (e.g. 1.0.8) have got the "minimize to system tray" option again, this is simply just an icon which allows you to open the full Spotify window. Obviously our attempts to get the minimize to tray option were not specific enough about wanting exactly the same functionality returned, so can we please have: A system tray icon which has the same functionality (via right mouse click) as it did before it was removed, which was: • Name of current track playing • Open Spotify • Option to Hide from task bar when closed • Play • Next • Previous • Shuffle • Repeat • Exit You had this before, so I dont see why you cant have it again.

bbeaton7can · ‎2015-10-08

After casting Spotify from my Android phone onto my new Chromecast audio device I was disapointed to discover that I could not set the device to extreme quality, even though I am a premium member. It would be good to allow a default extreme quality setting on all devices used on my account or to allow setting the quality in the Android app. The latest version of the Android app allows control of the quality level over chromecast in settings. This issue is solved.

JordyBresac · ‎2016-12-20

when you want to find a particular podcast you listened to it's hard to remember exactly who posted it and what date it was released (you have to scroll through all podcasts to find the one you want). By allowing people to search a particual word or the title of the podcast in the search bar and it to come up (or others with such phrasing) it can help find that podcast quicker. Also this helps if you want to listen to a podcast on a certain subject. Thank you :)

hans-jürgen · ‎2014-11-02

Spotify has announced on its developer blog lately that they will abandon the old app framework in the desktop software completely. This means that popular and well-known apps like musiXmatch, TuneWiki or Last.fm for Spotify will no longer be available in the App Finder. Here is an excerpt from the announcement: "Spotify Apps (Discontinued) This feature is no longer available. Please note: Future releases of the Spotify Desktop client will no longer feature an App Finder tab and will no longer support the presentation of Spotify Apps, therefore this feature has been discontinued. ... As Spotify evolves and priorities change, we sometimes have to remove APIs from active development and shift focus to the relevant platforms. With the new APIs and SDKs now available we are phasing out Spotify Apps support from the desktop client. In the upcoming version you will no longer be able to run third-party applications within the desktop client. This means the App Finder and apps inside the desktop client will no longer be available and we are terminating our Application Distribution Agreement. The update will gradually roll out from today, starting with a smaller percentage of new and existing users, with the majority of our existing users receiving the update early in 2015." No longer supporting these apps means that e.g. personalised recommendations for new music are even harder to find in Spotify, as they are also testing what to do with the Discover tab which might get replaced with a general Top Hits Highlights section or even be abandoned completely.

trevorschug · ‎2016-07-05

I listen to Spotify via Amazon Alexa, and I have been a loyal Last.FM user for over 10 years, unfortunately there is currently no way to "scrobble" tracks played via spotify via amazon echo. Back in the day, Rdio implemented scrobbling to Last.FM on the server side, meaning, rather than letting the client handle scrobbling, the scrobbling was handled universally by the server whenever you played a track so didn't have to have a scrobbler installed on every client. This would be a useful potential approach, either that or a dedicated option to turn on scrobbling for tracks played from an Echo.

Spotify Community

Closed Ideas

Bring back deleting Messages

[Android][Other] Maybe a widget?

[Partnerships] Samsung Gear Support

[iPad] Bring back the old Layout with 2 Panels

[Playlists] Green Playlist Icon when offline instead of Arrow

[Mobile] Main Menu as Sidebar and not at the Bottom

[Linux] Headless Client for Linux Servers

[Mobile] Use Headphone Buttons to control Spotify

Bring Spotify to Russia

Please stop removing functionality from Spotify

[Google Home] 'Add to Queue' Command

[iOS][Other] Spotify app for Apple TV (4th gen) tvOS

[Desktop] Pause when PC locked - Resume when unlocked

[Music] Looping individual Songs (or Parts)

[Chromecast] Scrobble to Last.fm

[Desktop] System Tray Icon with Player Controls (Pause, next, etc.)

Enable best Quality for Tracks on Chromecast Audio Device

[Podcasts] Searching for particular Podcast

Keep the old app API in the desktop software for existing apps

[Amazon Echo] Last.fm Scrobbling