The option to “opt-out” of certain artists and/or content has been a recurrent need in the Spotify community – as evidenced from community posts dated 2012 requesting a feature that prevents unsubscribed artists from appearing on curated or trending playlists recommended to users by Spotify. In 2017, the “case was closed” after 4000+ up-votes with no action taken by Spotify.   As paid subscribers, Spotify users can direct their support to artists, allowing for accurate “streaming numbers” that credit the artists’ work. In the same metric, paid subscribers should be able to “opt-out” of artists that they do not want to support financially (for whatever reason).   I would not go out and buy a Chris Brown record because he is a misogynist abuser of women and I will not be involved in supporting his career. However, I have no way of ensuring that his content does not stream on my account when using Spotify features I pay for. If an artist get paid per stream – I require the freedom to opt-out of that artist.   This is not an “up-voting” issue, but more, a fundamental membership issue that contributes to an unsafe user experience. This is not simply a matter of “not wanting to hear artists who are against my views” but rather, not wanting to support artists who are criminal offenders. I just assume this would be a priority for Spotify.     It may not be a popular feature with artists, not based on the 4000+ community up-votes, it is essential to users. ... View more

A member of spotify team said to separate the FLAC idea post, into FLAC local playback and FLAC streaming. Someone else can create a FLAC streaming post, as I'm only after local playback. The original post with the 2 ideas in one post is here. http://community.spotify.com/t5/Spotify-Ideas/Flac-on-Spotify-at-least-playback-of-your-own-flac/idi-p/8555   Vote for this post if you want LOCAL PLAYBACK OF FLAC FILES ONLY.   WHY WE NEED SPOTIFY TO PLAY OUR FLAC COLLECTION Spotify already plays ALAC, all be it with stability problems, but what we really need is local FLAC playback because FLAC is the defacto standard for lossless audio encoding. 7digital has recently started selling FLAC yet spotify can't play them. Why not??? http://www.7digital.com/find-music/7digital-recommends/flac   The most commercially successful band on the planet (The Beatles), have released official remastered versions of all albums in 24bitFLAC format on a usb device. http://www.everythingusb.com/the-beatles-stereo-usb-limited-edition-17961.html Numerous bands have sold albums in FLAC format through their websites. FLAC is the defacto standard for lossless encoding, so please start supporting local playback of FLAC.   Another idea that is important to me is fixing the appalling "set the same volume level for all tracks", which doesn't take into account the subtle volume transients of an album that audio engineers spend hours working on. The following volume normalization method retains the intended volume differences as part of the album. http://community.spotify.com/t5/Spotify-Ideas/VOLUME-NORMALIZATION-IN-SPOTIFY-DAMAGES-INTEGRITY-OF-THE-ALBUM/idi-p/220712 ... View more

My Dear and beloved Spotify users upvote this as much as you can. Spotify you need to reconsider your premium family subscription address restriction removal as a not right now to a an immediate yes I can say for sure you didn’t get my money because the issue, it is an inconvienece for service members and those alike and other hard working mobile families where home isn’t always in one place I garuantee if you made family plans to be world wide, Apple Music  and Pandora  would be shaking in their boots they would lose so much money and customers but right now you have hundreds if not thousands of customers whom are holding off on your family premium plan because the address restriction this is a serious issue. Please work on this and don’t give it a band-aid Solution as a not right now think of your valued customers and their family’s and your cooperations future. It would be a shame to see these articles catch heat and other competitors notice and beat you to the punch and you lose customers also money and to the ideas we’ve been asking you to implement. RISK AND FAILURE IS THE PATH TO SUCCESS. This is something your valued customers know we took a risk with Spotify when it first became a platform competing with other companies please understand we are asking as apart of the Spotify family and community to grow, enhance, and  better our Spotify community and family.  A Very concerned Service Member and loyal Spotify Customer.  People upvote so we can get this changed !!!!   ... View more

This really shouldn't be a limit! Previous Idea from 2012 was closed ... ... View more

Please add the ability to subscribe to push notificaitons to any followed or shared playlist to get an alert when new songs are added. Even better if it's customizable on a per-plalist basis. ... View more

I think it's really cool that college students get discount for spotify but it would be great if high school students could get the same thing , it would be amazing to being playing music wherever we want for a low price and since I find spotify better than pandora. $5 is extremely affordable for high school students and a lot would sign up for that price if that was an option ... View more

When i'm adding a song to a playlist. The playlist order should be sorted by the date the last song added to the playlist was. I was adding songs to an old playlist of mine and I had to scroll down my lists for each addition. Not a dealbreaker for me, but it's tedious.  ... View more

I was excited for this year's Wrapped, but I realized that there are several problems with this platform. First, the Wrapped only counts songs from January 1st to October 31st, which is an extremely inaccurate view of the year's songs. I don't think anyone would mind getting their Wrapped late January. Second, the Wrapped themselves are incredibly innaccurate. I use an additional platform called last.fm that can track my music down to an individual play. Comparing their count with Spotify's, I'm finding that the top artists, songs and genre are all messed up, as songs that should have never been in the top 5 or even in the top 100 somehow made it on the list. Additionally, the top genre does not reflect my actual top genres, considering how all the top artists listed (for me, at least) were dance/EDM and yet my top genre was pop. Third, the Wrapped playlist is even more inaccurate. The two songs I listened to most this year weren't even on it, and yet songs I listened to no more than a few made it on the list. ... View more

This of course could be referenced to PS3 and Wii as well, but as a primarily 360 user I'm biased ;) I'm hoping that something is in the works to bring Spotify to 360. Being that so many people have their gaming consoles setup through their home audio, it would really up the ante on the sound experience. As a premium user I use Spotify all the time but my living room is begging for it!   Heres to hopin! ... View more

Allow us to pin a few playlists at the top of the list so that they are always there and never change order. At the very least, allow us to re-arrange them on the mobile app. The Spotify app on Mac allows re-ordering of playists currently, why not the mobile app? ... View more

I loved using my starred playlists. It was an easy way for me to favorite songs and cache them for offline use without having to search for them or go through album after album. Removing this in 1.0 is annoying and a poor idea. Bring them back! ... View more

I was trying to compare my listening statistics from this year to last year, but when I tried to get onto the 2017 wrapped website it was unavailable because they close it down a month or two after the new year. It would be very nice to have all previous years' wrapped websites, not just playlists, with all the statistics on it, to be available to look at whenever users want. ... View more

I see this subject has come up before, but the response has been that the case is closed and it is not happening.  Thing is, being able to order my playlist either by name or date added is such a basic and fundamental function and what Spotify fails to do, is explain why on earth you would not implement this?  It's not really enough to just say, "we are not doing it".  I think you owe the community an explanation, or even better, JUST DO IT!!  I mean, really, I don't understand, so I hope you will help. ... View more

I would be so great to have DLNA support in Spotify, both in the desktop and mobile versions.   There should be a simple "Play To" feature so music can be played on the living room stereo and controlled from a mobile device without the use of a combination of desktop computer, JamCast, 2Player, WD TV live box ect.   It could be combined with AirPlay support, but I'm using a Windows/Android setup myself.   Hope people (and Spotify) will support this feature soon - it would really take Spotify to the next level at home! ... View more

I am following quite a few podcasts, and there used to be a "podcasts" section of my library, it was usually the second last option, before "local files". I just noticed last week that it's no longer there, and I cannot find the podcasts I have saved unless I search them by name. What happened?     ... View more

Hey all,   I have noticed that my eyes strain to see Spotify during the day and in dark area's because of the dark theme. My proposal is that Spotify can make a light theme for those android users who cannot invert colors easily. It would definitely boost people's usage of Spotify if we could have a light theme. (Yes, I know there is an idea posted 5 years ago, please just give this a chance.)    Thanks, -J ... View more

Do you have a follower that you don't want him/her to see what you are listening to? Adding a "force unfollow" button would be a great idea. One click and they don't follow you anymore. ... View more

Windows 8 Consumer Preview is going to be released in February 29th. Will you at Spotify have your app ready for download until then do we have to wait until Windows 8 is released? ... View more