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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.

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

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.

gigahaw · ‎2018-07-06

Hej - Do you listen to music while browsing the Discover area like me? Do you sometimes Save an album to listen to later? Might you see an article on your favorite blog about an album or Artist and go to Spotify to Save it and listen later. Hey, wow, me too! You know what would be awesome? Have a little notepad area attached to the Saved Album or Playlist to jot down a few notes. Kinda like - "Josh recommended this while we were at the CHainsmokers show at the FIllmore" or "Saw great review of this in Rolling Stone, writer said it was cross of Frank Sinatra and The Jam". Help me get this feature on Spotify so my mangled memory can get just the right know in the head to remember why I wanted to listen to that obscure album.

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.

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.

StefanGroen · ‎2018-09-09

Hi, First of all. I know this idea has been submitted before in this post, however this has been a while ago. Also lbdsgn added some sort of similair idea (in this post). Please make it possible to add more, different music formats to local Files. Now we're only able to add .mp3/.mp4/.m4p files to this folder. Personally I have a lot of mixtapes which are recorderd as a .wav format and would really like to see the possibility to add these songs to my local files folder too. Down here I have typed a list of common used music formats: - FLAC - AAC - ALAC - WAV - AIFF - APE - WMA -M4A Hope to hear from you soon Stefan

seelsonwheels · ‎2016-07-10

Currently, folder creation is limited to playlists. This makes the "Save to Your Music" functionality within Spotify unusable -- a major drag when the only alternative is to save albums as playlists, creating album v. playlist ambiguity within the navbar (see attached image.) Proposed solution -- as a Spotify user, I should be able to: create folders within the “Albums” tab of "Your Music." nest "Albums" folders within one another. drag-and-drop "Saved" album objects into the folders within "Albums" section of "Your Music." I wrote about this scope in more detail here.

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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?

rjchevis · ‎2015-01-16

We currently can sort our music by Title, Artist, and Recently Added. The ability to sort by Album/Song Release Date and Play Count would be welcomed!

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 @__spo__ fix this!!!!

user-removed · ‎2015-08-11

Hi, Could you put a feature on "Your Yusic" - "Artists" where you can shuffle the songs from your artist list, including all songs from followed artists. This would be very handy if you just want to listen to random songs from any of your favourite artists. Thanks

EilerWessel · ‎2016-04-30

Hi good folks This is my shoutout to see if there is an interest to add a new feature: A "CHECK LATER" section where you can drag and drop artists, albums, playlists or news/notifications - and then you can go back later and check them out, listen, save, add them to lists or whatever. As there sadly is no "open in new tab" feature in Spotify, I miss the possibility to do something like this when I am looking for something specific, and discover something else on the way.. This could be similar to "add to queue" feature, but just be a dump of stuff I want to look in to at a later time. As I am very interested in notifications, and they now are nearly gone, it is increasingly difficult to do snooping and searching, and multitasking is becoming to hard, as I have only a back/forth attempt to my findings. Stuff I find on the way is either forgotten or lost. I unfortunately have limited storage in the top section of my head, and need to divide things out in time. When browsing, the additional CHECK LATER menu on rightclick etc would facilitate adding artists, playlists, profiles etc quickly, and one wouldn't have to add loadsof songs etc one haven't looked into yet, to a playlist dedicated for this. It would be much smoother to add this way. It could also be possible for friends to send tracks etc to another friend's CHECK OUT section. Items in this section could be sorted like in SEARCH, with groups of Artists, Albums, Playlists, Profiles etc. Please consider something of this nature?

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.

brooks29 · ‎2019-07-14

Recommendations are cluttering up and ruining the Artists and Albums tabs. Currently we can choose what shows up in these tabs by selectively following artists and liking albums. I think this is a great way to filter out artists that only have one song that I like. But then there is the "Recommended" section... which recommends I follow every artist that I've liked a song by. So, in effect, my Artists tab is exactly the same as it was before, but now it's not even organized alphabetically. Currently my Artists tab has 48 followed artists and well over 1000 recommended artists. The same problem exists on the Albums tab. Simple solution, get rid of the "Recommended" section. Let ME choose what shows up in my Artists and Albums tabs. My current artists tab. Notice that the "Recommended" section begins when the scrollbar is only ~5% down the page. Way too many recommended artists.

ConcreteSurfer · ‎2017-02-20

I would love to be able to augment the normal phrase so it automatically shuffles the playlist, artists and all. I am tired of wanting to hear something and always hearing the same song first til I make it shuffle and then skip that song.

snowcat98 · ‎2017-08-09

As the title says, wouldn't it be more beneficial for everybody if there was an option to enable/disable the lockscreen media album art? Those who like it would keep it enabled and those who don't, won't. I personally dislike the feature because I don't like seeing the album art every time I open my lock screen as I listen to music a lot. It'd be awesome if Spotify would implement such a feature. I'd rather see my set lockscreen wallpaper than the album art of the music I'm listening to.

mrderek · ‎2014-12-17

This is a direct copy of this idea which was originally posted 2 years ago. I wasn't a user then, and this idea has since been made inactive, so I'm resurrecting it. Even just a shift-select on the desktop app would help immeasurably. Here's the original idea: "I am looking for easy ways to organize my library. I want to do some housekeeping in my library, but I find the current system of dragging and dropping individual playlists is too time consuming when the number of playlists reach this high. First of all, there should be a way to select multiple playlists at once and be able to handle multiple playlists the same way as I can handle single playlist (ability to drag and drop, and rightclick w/ a special dropdown menu for multiple selected items). Ctrl-clicking, shift-clicking and shift+arrowkeys would help greatly. [Edit] This idea is nearing its 2 year anniversary of no official recognition. Good times! 🙂 As a sidenote my Spotify library now consists of 1296 playlists."

ryancoll22 · ‎2018-12-22

I add tons of music before listening to it and over time remove songs I don't like. Sometimes I don't have the time and just skip the song. I'd love to be able to sort my songs by most skipped so I can see which songs to remove from my library. (Also sort by play count would be nice so I can catch up on my least listened to songs or see what my all time favourite songs are)

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

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

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

[All Platforms][Your Music] New Update Issues

[Music] Add Notes to saved Music

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

[Partnerships] Grand Theft Auto V with Spotify

[Desktop] Local Files: Support More Formats (AAC, ALAC, WAV, AIFF, APE, WMA)

[Your Music] Folder Organization

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

[Your Music] Sort by Play Count

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

[Your Music] Shuffle Artists Tab

'Check Out Later' Section

2019 update has ruined my music listening experience

Remove Recommended Artists section from Your Library

[Google Home] Shuffle Command

[Android] Option to disable lockscreen album art

Select and organize multiple Playlists

[All Platforms][Your Music] sort by most skipped