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LevTokol · ‎2019-06-14

Am a Premium user, was told that Premium Users would be getting the use of their new idea for organization of the Your Library tab. Didn't really mind, don't see it as much needed. I have few qualms with it other than the fact that there is no longer a section for Recently Played albums/songs. This is a pretty major inconvenience for me, seeing as I have a human memory that likes to forget things on me. Having to create a Recently Played playlist for myself to update every time a new song comes on is pretty impractical and annoying. So, please bring back the Recently Played section/tab. Very useful. Also, not extremely related, but the function to submit ideas seems hidden away in the tabs of the menu, itself hidden in a rabbit hole of non-expressive buttons (Help>Community>Menu>Ideas), and I was forbidden from posting on mobile (For not activating with my email? That's the first thing I did!). Not directly related to the app itself, but it felt like an issue I had worth mentioning.

cbackas · ‎2019-07-21

With this new update, the new location/functionality of the 'Recently Played' list has negatively impacted how I listen to music in a big way. I'm going to be more specific with this request since apparently the last time this was requested and got 600+ votes, it was closed for a dumb reason. I'm suggesting back the OLD recently played list to the library page. I'm suggesting this with full knowledge that you've already implemented another (worse) recently played list on the home page. The new list involves massive photos with much less emphasis on the names of the items but the artwork instead, that scroll horizontally (only showing 2-3 items at a time), with no ability to hide items, and on top of ALL that garbage: it requires an internet connection (it's on the home page of course). There's also not even a guarantee that this horizontal list will be at the top of your Home page because Spotify likes to put promoted content up there and shift everything else down - even though you pay money and don't want ads getting in the way of using the app normally. And if you don't move this back to the library page, then how about somewhere else? Make it require a button press on the library screen to get to my recently played list for all I care. I just want my vertical OFFLINE list of songs back. I'm hoping this maybe has a different response. The last time someone posted this idea they didn't acknowledge the fact that there is a new location for recently played and Spotify simply responded: "we moved it". This post isn't suggesting that there isn't a recently played list, it's suggesting that in its current form it sucks.

GSYC · ‎2019-06-19

Whenever I download an album, it automatically saves the entire album. But with the update, I have to also manually save every song on the album because by downloading the entire album, it now only goes to the Albums area but not the Liked Songs anymore. This is a problem because sometimes whenever I want to only save a few songs from an album, it only goes to the Liked Songs playlist, not to the Album area like what happens prior to the update. The ‘Recently Played’ is also removed from ‘Your Library’ , adding inconvenience to my listening experience. For example, I save 2 songs from the same album. Before the update, I could access these 2 songs from both the ‘Your Saved Songs’ and ‘Albums’ section. After the update, I could only access the 2 songs from the ‘Liked Songs’ playlist but not the ‘Albums’ section. Please @spotify fix this!!!!

happycomposer · ‎2019-03-07

In the most recent spotify update, any catagory of music except for "Albums" and "Artists" has been removed. "Artists" now only shows the artists you follow, and "Albums" now only show full albums that you have saved (so if you have one or two songs saved in that album, it won't show up there). There is currently no way to change this back to the old layout, and this is inconvenient if you would like to see your entire library under "albums" and "artists." Spotify should, consequently, either return to the previous layout or add an option for these two tabs to organize your entire library. This will make it far more convenient for Spotify users to access their library, as well as listen to music from specific albums or artists without being forced to listen to the entire discography of an artist or an entire album if they do not wish to do so. Attached belowis an image the new layout for reference.

JoelSleet · ‎2019-03-14

I never expected to have to post this but the new Spotify update has outraged me so much I'm forced to bring my issues up here, in the hope that Spotify will do something about it. The new update has done nothing but send the app (both desktop and mobile) backwards and has just become less accessible as it no longer works in the way you expect a music player to do so. Firstly, no longer being able to view your saved library songs by artists is something that baffles me. I've always got to the music I want to listen to this way and it was a great way to shuffle all saved songs of one particular artist. Now you choose which artists to follow and that only takes you through to the artist page. Also now when you save an album to your library you can only access them through the albums section. All the songs within the album aren't added to the song section. Like, seriously. You save the album, but not the very songs that make up the album. Therefore if you want to access the album in both places you have to save it as an album, then save each song individually as well. Don't fret though as the albums you saved before the update are still in both sections. But, wait... If you want to remove one of those albums from you library, the songs will remain and you are left to remove each one individually. Lovely. This is all before I've got to the specific issues with the mobile app (for me Android). Another side-effect of the change to artists in your library you can no longer download all the saved music you have under a specific artists. So you have to download each album/song. It's also really hard to navigate to specific albums/songs you have downloaded - so there's that as well. Want to filter your library down so you can get to exaclty what you listen to? Well you can't do that any more. As much as I've ranted in this I really just want the old Spotify back. I used to use it everyday without fail: in work, at home, on the move. All the artists, albums and songs I love so much all easy to access on the app. I've been more reluctant to use it recently as it's just not accessible any more. It seems it's been angled more for those who create and listen to playlists - which is not everyone. For the first time ever I started to look at what other options I have available in terms of accssing and playing music. I really hope I don't have to move elsewhere and that Spotify sort this out soon.

Cr8onking · ‎2019-06-13

Remember before the update that got rid of the old Your Library tab? Yeah, bring that back. I want an artist's tab that shows every artist in my library, not just the followed ones and then a random list of all the other artists I have saved. And the songs tab. None of this playlist with every possible song in it garbage. And please, most of all, PLEASE bring back the list view of recently played everything! Albums, artists, playlists, whatever it be. And if course, the ability to SAVE AN ALBUM. I don't listen to track based artists. I LISTEN TO ALBUMS. So let me save that album with one click. The new user interface is probably great for some people. I hate it. Reddit hates it. So, just give us a nice little button we can press in settings to select which UI we want to use. Please, it's been 1 day and I hate the new UI. It feels like I list a bunch of stuff for the podcasts tab. I don't listen to podcasts. So give me the option to change it. Please spotify. I'm begging you. I love the statistics I get through you guys, I love the end of year review, but this UI makes me want to check out Apple music or sound cloud go or something else.

jpfarrell1978 · ‎2019-03-29

I used to be able to "Save" an album and go through and remove the tracks I didn't want, like live songs on a deluxe album. Now that "Save" has been replaced with "Like", all the albums I had saved now include every song from the album with no way to remove them and even though "Like" is not selected for the songs I don't want it still plays everything on the album, not just the likes songs. This is so frustrating. I didn't have the songs saved for a reason, now I have no choice unless I want to turn all of my saved albums into seperate playlists. Frustrating.

EelcoGrimm · ‎2017-12-19

I would like to breath new life in an idea that was proposed in this forum a few years back: https://t.co/bcRo8UJ8d5. It is about offering fans the opportunity to donate to artists. I see it like this: we need to increase the notion of authorship again by introducing the ‘Karma Button’. Music is very important in most people’s life’s. Fans feel a strong connection to musical artists. With streaming, the opportunity to express one’s support for the artist is lost. The monthly subscription fee goes to the Streaming Service, who seems disconnected from the artist they play and love. When buying a CD one had the subconscious expectation the money went to the artist. With streaming, the public is aware that the artist revenue on a single stream is very small. In reality, revenues on streams are payed to the master owner, often the record label. Record labels even blocked the neighboring rights for online delivery. But fans experience a relationship with the artist, not with the label. The Karma button facilitates a payment of the fan directly to the artist, like flipping a dime in the hat of a street artist. It is a gift that should not be subject to contracts related to the music itself. This is where the proposal of 2012 stalled. The response from Spotify was: “Spotify pays out straight back to rightsholders, the record labels and collecting societies who in turn pay money to the artists, musicians, lyricists and composers that they represent. So we do not pay straight to artists…labels do that. For this reason and since all our music is based in the agreements with labels we can't do anything about this…”. The real problem is that Spotify does not have a database of which artist has what rights on which music so they don’t know who to pay the money to. Luckily that problem can be solved elegantly by cooperating with a neighboring rights organization such as the Dutch Sena (https://www.sena.nl/en/music-creators). Sena is a non-profit organization, working for a small administration fee, and has records of most relevant tracks, including the share ratios of the producers. Artists can also sign up at Sena themselves. If Sena is informed how much money was donated to which ISRC number, they can take care of the payment, charging only a small administration fee. This process can be automated. I had a meeting with the director of Sena and they are ready for this. Now there is a threat. Record labels do not like distributing companies like Spotify to build a direct relationship with their artists. Spotify is strongly dependent on the record labels for their stream content so there is a risk that labels will take countermeasures. The solution is to make sure that there is just a one way connection from the fan to the artist of the donation, with Sena in between. This is in line with the Karma principle. In India a Karma action is a one way affair. One should not expect anything in return during the current lifetime. So in our case there is no need to offer a return path from the artists to express their gratitude for the donation. Spotify should explain this clearly to the record labels. The Karma button should have a clear icon and be available on the main page of the interface where the track is viewed and started (for donating to the track artists) and on the artist page (for donating to just the main artist). It should be a ‘one click donate’ system so the threshold to pay is very low. A monthly limit per user could be set. Keep the concept as simple as possible: the full amount minus x% administration cost will go to the artists. By doing this in full authentic honesty, trust is gained from listeners and artists. Show the route of the donated money clearly. The name ‘Karma’ also relates to this: if the middle men take too much money from the revenue stream, it will be bad for their own Karma. But Karma also works the other way around. At the moment Spotify is arguably the largest source for music consumption. That brings responsibility to support the artists where possible. By taking the lead in adopting the Karma button, Spotify shows the world that they take their mission serious. And it brings lots of opportunities. By adding Karma, the freemium model makes a lot of sense for artists. All fans should have free access to Spotify so everyone can use Karma to express their gratitude. Artists will encourage their fans to use the Karma button on Spotify. If they like they can place a QR-Karma code on their outings at concerts (on tickets etc), which offers the audience a possibility to give them a ‘tip’ via the Karma button on their Spotify page. I offer this idea just for my own good Karma. But I sincerely hope that it will be adopted, since I am sure it will benefit especially the smaller artists, who do need some support these days. Eelco Grimm HKU University of the Arts, Music & Technology, Utrecht, The Netherlands Grimm Audio, Eindhoven, The Netherlands

Malaurenvil2 · ‎2019-06-19

On the new update for Android. Version 8.5.9.737 on the screen that pops up when you are adding a song to a playlist. Those playlists are in "most recently edited" order. And while in my library I can change that to be custom sort. In that menu screen there is no option to reorder them. And as I have over 200 playlists that I add to at varying rates. This gets annoying pretty quickly and my only temporary fix is having a bunch of folders for them all. Please either revert this part of the update at least. So that the playlist show up in your custom order when ur choosing which one to add a song to. Or add an option for how they show up on that screen

mchapmansydney · ‎2019-06-17

I can't zoom out. Everything is in my face. It's giving me anxiety. Can we have an option to make things smaller please? Also, new update to library is ridiculous. Terrible. How is removing useful features a good idea? Ack! Trash.

54rc45m · ‎2019-06-18

Hello There, I have been using your service for many years now. When I began it was very simple. Search an artist, find a song/album you want, add it to your "library". I would go to my library and could scroll through my artists (i particularly loved the letters on the side of the screen that made it even faster to scroll around). I am not here to criticize the changes that have been made lately (to the mobile app, specifically for iOS), but I personally do not find the changes to be beneficial, nor are they very user friendly. They do not really make sense to me, and I am getting frustrated with the current set up. I believe it would be very cool to offer a legacy format to the application which would make my library act more like a windows media/itunes library. I find it far more intuitive, easier to navigate and I do not believe that it would interfere with your current algorithms that provide recommendations and the discover weekly (both of which are amazing and beautiful tools). I want to reitterate that I love your service and hope to continue being a patron, but I am very frustrated personally with the few latest big patches (last 9 months or so). Current layout is far from intuitive, I do not wish to follow most of the groups that I enjoy. The "your release radar" was perfectly fine for knowing when new albums came out. Maybe adding that as a listed playlist in "playlist" section of my "library" would be a more effective place for it to be. I am not a programmer, or developer, but I do spend a lot of time using various app and program interfaces and have been in the music scene since the early (glory) days of Napster. Not that that makes me anyone special. Hope this helps. I really would apreciate a Legacy option, I think it would be particularly helpful to an older crowd, i could imagine them having a lot of difficulty with the current interface. Thank you for your time, Brennan (54rc45m)

meriwetherj · ‎2019-06-18

I'm really surprised about the removal of the "recently played" feature. This was a huge part of how I use the mobile app, and a standout feature for Spotify. The update to the Your Library page has a number of problems, but the loss of the "recently played" list is close to a deal breaker. I'd love to move my entire family plan to an app that has a useful UI.

sponkulusnodge · ‎2019-03-19

I've got some criticism I'd like to share on the the recent update. No list for saved songs by artist: When I want to listen to a specfic artist, 90% of the time I want to listen to their catalogue I'm familiar with. Previously, I would land on my saved songs by them which would be all their singles and albums I've decided I want to listen to more by saving them - simple, right? Landing on their public page may look appealing, but if I don't feel like listening to a specific album there's a good chance I don't feel like listening to their entire discography, unless I've already familiarised myself with all of it. I don't want to make individual playlists for my personal selection of favourite albums by my favourite artists because this is generally something I want to do quickly. A lot of the time I want to listen to a specific artist because when they come on one of my playlists I'll decide I want to listen to more of something I'm familiar with. I'm not going to make a playlist every time that happens. It's not user friendly. This feature may help the confusion of when albums disappear as they change labels/distributors (if I only ever used artist pages and not playlists or albums), but a much simpler fix would be having the ISRC carry over when reuploaded so users don't find themselves saving albums twice (get good, guys. it's incredibly simple and been an issue for way too long). And realistically, this will actually make it worse because I'll only be able to see my saved albums if I've done this if I go into the "albums" tab before saving an album I've already saved, and I can't browse my saved albums via artist (not even through search). Let's say an artist changed the hands of 3 of their albums, I'd have to look up each release to make sure I'm not duplicating an already chaotic library. Albums not saving songs; the assumed push for using "Liked songs": The reasons this is bad are similar to the artist page issue, but it's almost more of a mess. Credit's due that without this artist feature, saving songs is a bit trivial and this "liked song" list could be used as a nice list of my favourite songs from these albums. Good in theory (kinda). HOWEVER - my list has over 5000 songs. Have you lost your mind, Spotify? I've been a premium user for 2 years and I get rewarded by nullifying the convenience of my library? Whatever positives this may have for a new user are a complete negative for a loyal user. Sure, the power of streaming has changed my listening habits for better and worse since I signed up, and it has made it harder to familiarise myself with things when so much is right at my fingertips. But this update has undoubtedly made it harder for me to keep listening to the artists/albums I like (special mention to the extra clicks to get to repeat and queue on the phone apps). If Spotify is going to roll out something this detrimental to my library, could they at least use their algorithms to make the "liked songs" ones they know I flog, and the more popular songs from the albums I like (or something?? anything??). If Spotify is going to push me to only listen to playlists I make and ones made for me, I may as well listen to music on YouTube or something and sit back like a mindless neanderthall while the algorithm chooses the most clickworthy songs in the genre. I won't cancel my subscription just yet, but I've signed up to Apple Music and this is a much better experience already, and it'll be much easier to get my library together here even though I haven't used iTunes in over 2 years - that's pretty sad. I'll miss the culture of Spotify but I can't do this unless it's fixed. EDIT: After a few months I've decided the liked song feature is improving my experience (but I still need to sort out those 5000 songs), however the lack of an artist list of saved albums/songs is still very annoying.

LizLime · ‎2019-07-17

Prior versions of Spotify desktop and mobile simply showed all albums with songs I had saved or "Liked" in the UI update. Now, however, there is only a dropdown for "Recommended" albums on mobile, and my desktop albums section is empty! Developers should add an option in the mobile and desktop versions to view all albums I had saved a song from, mimicking the prior functionality of this feature. I enjoyed the Albums feature and frequently used it prior to the update. I am quite saddened that developers did not see its value to me as a customer with enough import to continue to provide it as an option. Hopefully, through calling attention to this issue, I can bring this important feature to the eyes of those who are responsible for planning future updates, where it can once again be included

datfenristho · ‎2019-07-11

Since the change to the UI in June saving music on Spotify has become extremely inconvenient. Before we were able to save the songs we enjoyed, and they would be found under both the artist and album tabs. Now we can only save entire albums, and "like" songs for them to be added to a ridiculously long and incoherent playlist. Very few people like every single song from a given album, so naturally they wouldn't save the songs the didn't enjoy. However now people that did that are pretty much being punished by having the majority of our library shoved into "liked songs". Please revert the way we save our music to the way it was previously. Being able to save music we enjoyed is kind of a big part of using Spotify, and not being able to do something as simple as that will just cause us to seek out other services. Something as basic as saving our music shouldn't be replaced by a more inconvenient version just for the sake of change alone.

Goldenfurpro · ‎2018-07-05

The new change from the "Songs" playlist to "Favorite Songs" is not only pointless but really confuses the original purpose of the "Songs" library. Many users used the "+" icon to save songs they were interested in, but not all of the songs users saved were "Favorite Songs". My system, for one, was to save songs I kind of liked, then go through them later. The songs I thought were the best, I removed the "+" and put those songs into another playlist entirely. So, none of the songs on that playlist are actually my favorite song and now I'm going to have difficulty returning to this system when all of these songs have hearts on them and are labeled "Favorite Songs". Just go back to the way it was. Honestly Spotify, there are so many more important changes to implement and you do this?

ssempiternal · ‎2019-07-19

Recently in one of the changes done to Spotify when you save an album it won't save every song to your Liked Songs, as it previously did, and now it'll only save the album to the Album tab, I think this is really horrible as I now have to save every single song one by one, and it's been a bit annoying honestly.

xanderb · ‎2019-06-13

In the last big mobile update, Spotify removed the ability to access saved songs from an album by clicking on that album in Your Library. In the most recent update, Spotify entirely removed the ability to save an album in Your Music without saving the entire album. I, like most of my friends who use Spotify, tend to navigate my saved music through the album view. Albums are easy to identify and help organize my saved music. Scrolling through albums of saved songs is much quicker and easier than scrolling through thousands of songs in the Liked Songs playlist. Not to mention that it's near impossible to find a song whose name and artist you've forgotten without seeing the album art. Please bring back the ability to save and recall some songs in album view; it helps users find music more easily, and increases the diversity of albums and songs they listen to.

user-removed · ‎2019-04-22

For anyone who switched from Apple Music to Spotify, one feature I miss is the artwork that shows next to each song in your music library. In Spotify, it's an eye sore scrolling through your music library and only seeing text. It would be nice if we have a glimpse of the artwork next to the song, similar when you scroll under "albums" on mobile, and you see the album artwork next to the album title. I have attached an image with an example of what I'm referring to.

Narpas · ‎2019-07-17

I've been using Spotify consistantly for probably almost four years at this point, and have over 5500 songs saved/liked across over 1000 different artists, so you can imagine my frustration with finding music that I'ved saved/liked by a specific artist who I've not followed under the recent update. I would love for some way to easily find saved songs by artists that I am not following, as currently the only way to do that is to search for the artist, follow them, find them in my follows, then unfollow them, or to scroll through the list of "Recommended artists" underneath my followed artists which is over 900 artists long. Now, I have a couple of ideas on how to fix this, and I would love to see all of them implemented, but even just one would make browsing my saved/liked songs so much easier. Firstly, the main artist page itself. A way to toggle between the current way of sorting artists and something closer to the old way would be nice; for example, displaying all saved artists by default, but having a way to filter to just follewed artists, much like the "Filter downloaded songs" found on mobile, or a switch that says "Show only followed artists" which would show the current view (of course, this can be enabled by default so as not to overwhelm users). Barring that, a way to sort the "Recommended artists" section would be nice (I believe currently it sorts by recently added, but I may be mistaken). Adding a way to sort that list alphabetically or by recently played would be wonderful (speaking of, sorting followed artists by recently played in addition to recently added and alphabetically would also be wonderful). Lastly, a button on an artist's profile to the effect of "View liked songs" as a way to view the same page that you would get by clicking on them under the Artists tab would go a long way. I understand if Spotify would not wish to implement changes such as these, but implementing even just one of them would greatly help myself, and probably many others. I would love to see all of these functions added (that last one is one I've wanted for a while, even before the update), and believe they would make for a better browsing and curating experience. (P.S. I'm sure it'll come up somewhere, but the reason I'm not following every artist whose music I'ved liked is because some of them I like a couple of their songs, but not enough of them to warrent following, or they're something like a classical composer, where there's many many vesions of the same songs that I already have saved.) --Cheers, Narpas

Spotify Community

Closed Ideas

[Mobile][Your Music] Bring back Recently Played to Your Library

[Mobile][Your Music] Bring brack the old recently played

[All Platforms][Your Music] ‘Your Library’ has become too organised and thus, inconvenient

[iOS][Your Music] Link albums and artists back to your library and not to the catalog view.

[All Platforms][Your Music] New Update Issues

[Mobile][Your Music] User Interface Options

[iOS][Your Music] Brink back the ability to remove individual songs from a saved album

[Your Music] Donate To This Artist ‘Karma’ button

[Mobile] enable sorting on "Add to playlist" pop-up window

[Android][Your Music] Everything is too big

[iOS][Your Music] Legacy Option

[Mobile][Your Music] Recently Played was useful.

2019 update has ruined my music listening experience

[All Platforms][Your Music] Bring back the Albums section option to display albums with saved songs

[All Platforms][Your Music] Return saving music to the way it was prior to June update

[All Platforms][Your Music] Go Back to Saving Music to "Songs" Instead of "Favorite Songs"

[Android][Your Music] Albums not being saved in the liked songs

[Mobile][Your Music] Bring back saved albums without saving all songs

[All Platforms][Your Music] Show Artwork Next To Songs In Your Library

[All Platforms][Your Music] Search Saved/Liked Songs by unfollowed Artists