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

At least half the people in the world disagree with the Obamas yet you force us to see the garbage they peddle on our home screen. Do you not realize there are tens of millions of people in this country alone that aren’t liberal?  You may be in love with them but don’t force it on everyone. Believe it or not, a lot of people think they’re pretty awful. ... View more

Now that Spotify is investing more in video, I think it's important to allow for flexibility in how users watch videos on their devices.   By allowing for Picture-in-Picture (PiP), users would be able to play Spotify videos in the background, which is not only a major enhancement to the current experience, but is also more consistent with how audio works in Spotify.   On iOS and Mac, more and more apps are adopting the native PiP functionality, including Safari, YouTube, Twitch, etc. I think it would be good for Spotify to do the same. ... View more

There should be an option to access "Your Episodes" on desktop app rather than just phone app in order to listen to podcasts. Should also be able to shuffle while listening in "Your Episodes" to be able to shuffle between podcasts like songs on a regular playlist. ... View more

Some user experience around podcasts that I think should be adressed. Idea 1: news podcasts I like to listen for news (let's take an example, I play FT News Briefing every morning). However, when I click the big button in the middle to play. When I do this, the first ever episode plays. There may be  podcasts where it makes sense to start in the beginning (ex: storytelling, fiction) but news it should default to the latest news. Idea 2: latest episodes view if possible I would like to have, when choosing the "Podcasts" part, apart from Sorted by Name/Recently Added, another view where I can see which are the last episodes to be updated - otherwise I need to click each individual podcast to see if, despite being sorted by new episodes, it really has new episodes.   I really want to like and enjoy Spotify, and I like it to listen to music, but I feel in some ways the podcast part is lacking and that some heavy podcast listeners like me would appreciate.   For example, perhaps a button on a corner that switches to "advanced podcast mode"? Perhaps some podcast editors would like to add rich text and images to an episodes on top of a description. If you are creating so many podcasts in your ecosystem (see: Anchor is yours), why don't use the opportunity for an enriched and user experience. Allow the podcast creators to add podcasts, reactions... I don't know...   As a Spotify user AND investor in the stock, I feel there is so much potential that I would love you to be more experimental 🙂     ... View more

Can we get podcast speed options on chrome web player? My phone died and I am sadly forced to listen to my podcasts on my laptop. I used to listen to my podcasts at 1.8x or 2x speed on the mobile app, and as this is not an option on desktop, I am greatly inconvenienced and disappointed in Spotify. Thank you. ... View more

I’ve been listening to Podcasts for a year or two now and one of the biggest components of a great podcast is the comment section.   This is vital for a podcasts success because the comment section is where a podcasts community can connect with each other, which gives the podcast a little bit of flavor   If Spotify can add a comment section to its podcasts page, then it will most definitely kill YouTube podcasting and give you guys most of the market share 😉   and i know you guys love market share ... View more

Podcasts is a great feature, available in Spotify either for Free and Premium plans, and as an Ukraine region user I am really missing podcasts section in my account. I understand that podcasts availability in region depends on licensing but since general availability of Spotify happened I don't think podcasts will be an issue. ... View more

There have been many posts about improving the UI for podcasts within the Spotify app. But the more reasonable architectural decision seems to be to use a separate app for podcasts / audiobooks. Trying to cram too much into the spotify music app is confusing; it bloats the experience and distracts the user.   As an episodic medium with repeat consumption and curation, podcasts are just very different than traditional music. In particular, once I've decided to listen to a podcast, the likelihood of me wanting to listen to music is extremely low - podcast-specific search, prioritization and discovery is much worse when mixed up with musical content.  ... View more

Unless Spotify wants to remain in the stone-age, the platform needs to, at a minimum, provide a r efresh button, but a better solution would be  an automated check for recently posted content. it is ridiculous that users currently need to restart the Spotify app in order to see if yesterday's podcast is available.   #check #automatic #discover #updates #current #new #episodes #available #content #refresh #recent #release #podcast ... View more

Hello,   I don't listen to any podcasts yet Spotify thinks I need to see "ANIME **bleep**" on my home screen every day... I find this just gross and don't need to see that every time I open Spotify. plus the message that sends to people who use my Spotify, it's gross and should filtered away or removed.  (I am the music box at work so my Spotify is used by everyone on my device.)   Please give me the possibility to dismiss or report these podcasts or something so I don't have to see this gross trash. ... View more

Currently there is no option to adjust the playback speed of podcasts which contain video (Joe Rogan Experience) on the desktop application.  As someone who likes to listen at 1.5 speed, it makes listening to JRE on the desktop app impossible currently. ... View more

I was interested to check out the Joe Rogan Experience during work but was dismayed that the Windows app forces video playback the entire time. Our company is lenient on using Spotify during the workday on company laptops, but we've been notified about aggressive video streaming during the pandemic as corporate security tries to promote improved bandwidth for telecommuters. The idea of multiple employees (it's a very large company) streaming JRE video for hours on end will surely get Spotify blocked on the corporate network.   Suggestion: implementing a toggle switch at the top of a mixed-media podcast that switches between full video or audio-only. Despite my unique situation described above, I think it's also a reasonable request for others who simply might not care to watch the episode videos. ... View more

Remove Barstool Sports’ podcasts from Spotify due to abusive and offensive content by owner Dave Portnoy and other Barstool hosts. Spotify’s terms and conditions prohibit content the principal purpose of which is to incite hatred or violence against people because of their race or religion, [i] or that is offensive, abusive, defamatory, threatening, obscene, or advocates or incites violence. [ii]  “Posting any such Objectionable Content may result in immediate termination or suspension of your Spotify account,” according to Spotify’s Terms and Conditions of Use. [iii]   Barstool podcasts currently available on Spotify call on Barstool followers to “attack” a critic online, threaten to “meme you to death” if you “say something mean to us,” state that Colin Kaepernick is “an ISIS guy” and looks like “a terrorist”, and make the N-word an episode title. These examples are detailed in the attached, which is not an exhaustive list. Review Barstool’s podcasts, website and affiliated twitter handles for other examples.   [i] https://newsroom.spotify.com/2018-06-01/spotify-policy-update/ [ii] https://www.spotify.com/us/legal/spotify-for-podcasters-platform-terms/ [iii] https://www.spotify.com/us/legal/spotify-for-podcasters-platform-terms/ ... View more

Spotify is just confirming everyone's fears that they are going to censor the JRE. The whole point of the show is creating dialogue and not censoring people's ability to think and discuss openly and what do they do? Immediately start censoring. So much for no creative control. Thanks Spotify... NOT.  ... View more

It seems convoluted to simultaneously have just three options in the bottom bar at the moment, while at the same time, having two different slider menus at the top of the library section of the app (Music and Podcasts, as well as playlists, artists and albums, that are swipeable between eachother, but this is far from clear to actual users).   I really like what Spotify is doing with Podcasts, but you need to improve the experience greatly first (notifications for new episodes and better control over playback speed are obvious next steps too).   Thanks very much! ... View more

In the latest update in Android, podcasts can now be sorted by anything other than their last updated date. This makes no sense. I want to see which podcasts have been updated so that I can listen to new content. This feature is still missing on desktop completely. ... View more

We should be able to delete podcasts from our history. I only tried a few to see if I liked listening to podcasts but I don't. The few I listened to keeps showing up on my main page and I don't want to see them. There should be an option to close podcasts altogether or delete them from our history.  ... View more