Spotify Community

akd42 · ‎2017-02-20

Hi Spotify, I think it would be really neat to connect Fitbit and Spotify. That way, when I am listening to an audiobook, or anything, on Spotify as I'm going to sleep, there will be a note of where I was in my audiobook when I fell asleep. I know Fitbit doesn't track sleep under an hour but it will tell you what time you went to sleep once you sleep for more than an hour. So while it would be most ideal for the audiobook/music to stop playing as soon you fall asleep, the way that Fitbit works, the next best thing would be to note what time in a track I was in so I don't have to search what I last remember hearing of the story. Also if I could look at my Fitbit to see what song is playing that would be cool.

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...

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.

sssossso · ‎2017-02-27

Happy that Spotify has implemented Touchbar integration with the new line of Macbook Pros, but I'm a little shocked that nowhere on the Touchbar is the current song name shown. Using the feature from inside other apps brings up the pause/play/next/back functions with a very large scroll bar to scrobble through the song. I feel that fitting the song name + artist would be totally doable in this space. This feature would be especially useful within Radio or playlists such as charts/Discover Weekly. Something to consider - would be greatly appreciated!

user-removed · ‎2015-04-20

Feature that allows us to link our Rockstar Social Club account with Spotify and create a list to play in GTA V's custom radio.

JanitorofLunacy · ‎2015-04-06

This recent update is really ruining my playlists by linking completely different files on my computer to albums that I am trying to stream. For instance, Babymetal's Red Night album. If you look at the picture I attached, every single one of the songs on Black Night where the artist name of Babymetal is white instead of grey has been linked to Red Night, even though they are completely different versions of the songs. When I am trying to play a Red Night track, instead of playing the Red Night track, it just says it is and plays the linked Black Night track instead as if I can't notice a difference. So, essentially, despite the fact that I am paying the premium fee, nearly the entire Red Night album is unavailable to me because I have completely different local files being linked to it. This is completely asinine. There used to be an absolutely necessary feature in which you could rightclick on a song and select an option to unlink it from a local file. This needs to be brought back immediately.

francocm · ‎2017-06-27

Android applications seem to support some form of integration with the Android OS to identify as a music player. Going to: Settings > Apps > *Gear Icon* > *Default Section* > Music app: I'm able to select which application on my phone should be the default app for music, and the phone presents me with a list of choices: Google Play Music MX Player Pro ES File Explorer Pro IPTV Pro. As you can see, Spotify is not on the list. If those apps can make it to the list, so can Spotify. Would be really great to see official integration with Android in this regard, especially because such integration helps a lot when connecting the phone with the car! Screenshot attached. Phone: OnePlus 5 OS: Oxygen OS 4.5.2 / Android 7.1.1 OS Build: ONEPLUS A5000_23_170624 Thanks (P.S. Originally posted in the Android section, but was recommended to post it here)

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!

ummmmmm · ‎2020-05-04

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..)

zachc94 · ‎2018-01-08

As of 1/8/2018 the spotify widget is currently on a 1x4 size. Many newer phones have the ability to hold more icon columns (more than 4) therefore the spotify player looks poorly made and ill fitting. I know that google play, and samsung play provide the ability to resize the widget to match the width/# of icon columns you have on your screen. Can it be possible to allow the widget to be resizeable like other music playing competitor apps? It feels weird that spotify doesn't take this idea into account. It has been submitted many times on the forum: https://community.spotify.com/t5/Closed-Ideas/Android-Music-Still-no-resizable-widget/idi-p/1453390 https://community.spotify.com/t5/Live-Ideas/Android-Widget-Scale-for-bigger-phone/idi-p/1450583 https://community.spotify.com/t5/Closed-Ideas/Android-Resizable-Widget/idi-p/4158889 https://community.spotify.com/t5/Closed-Ideas/Android-Other-Widget-Size-Adjustment/idi-p/1280262 https://community.spotify.com/t5/Closed-Ideas/Android-Other-Spotify-widget-resizing-on-Android/idi-p/1808261 https://community.spotify.com/t5/Closed-Ideas/Android-Widget-should-be-resizable/idi-p/1151879 https://community.spotify.com/t5/Android/Spotify-Widget/m-p/760295 I assume it isn't that much work to do compared to some of the other ideas I have seen you guys implement. Please look into this, as there are definitely people complaining about this everywhere. Thanks, Zach

ByeByeMySpotify · ‎2019-08-13

I think we all learned something today. Spotify will not bring back old Features on new releases. What if there is a different way? One that costs nothing and is already developed? Same story happend to Blizzard with WOW, they had a beautiful Game and destroyed it with too many new feauters. As they keep loosing customers they decided to bring back the old client beside the new one, so every customer can decide if he wants to stay with the classic or the new Game. Bring an old Spotify Version as an additional App to the Store, it costs u nothing because its already developed. But it gives us everything. Thanks

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 🙂

jaytee22 · ‎2017-11-06

Any progress on enabling crossfade while casting to a Chromecast Audio device? Has been asked many times over the years but, despite positive community feedback, has still not been implemented. Would be an awesome feature when playing music over chromecast for parties to avoid silence between songs.

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!! 😄 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 .

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.

Spotify Community

Closed Ideas

[Partnership] Fitbit with Spotify

Bring back deleting Messages

[Android][Other] Maybe a widget?

[All Platforms][Other] Just lyrics

[Mac] Touchbar should show Song Title

[Partnerships] Grand Theft Auto V with Spotify

[Desktop] Link & Unlink Local Files

[Android] Set Spotify as Default Player

[Partnerships] Samsung Gear Support

[iPad] Bring back the old Layout with 2 Panels

[Desktop][Other] Miniplayer for Desktop App

[Android] Resizable Android Widget

[Android][Other] Widget alternative - Spotify Classic

[Playlists] Green Playlist Icon when offline instead of Arrow

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

[Chromecast] Crossfade when using Chromecast and Chromecast Audio

[Linux] Headless Client for Linux Servers

[Mobile] Use Headphone Buttons to control Spotify

Bring Spotify to Russia

[Google Home] 'Add to Queue' Command