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Acepirate728 · ‎2018-07-30

EDIT: THANK YOU so much for removing Info Wars from your platform! I'm glad you listened and I will renew my subscription! -its not a free speech issue, he still has his website -real the constitution before you bring up the First Amendment -patrons of Spotify expecting their content creators to follow their code of conduct (ie NOT threaten to kill people!) Is totally reasonable. Please consider banning Alex Jones' Info Wars podcast. His hatefilled and inaccurate "reporting" should not be given a platform anywhere, especially not on Spotify. I can not in good conscious continue to pay for a paid subscription for a service that also provides a hateful man a platform to spread more hate and fear.

wit_sec_birb · ‎2018-04-24

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Vortex_Slide · ‎2018-12-03

For me it seems like every time I update the app, some basic features are missing or not working as before. Thats why I want to collect all my major points in this post, so that maybe those features will come back in the future: - The menu bar at the bottom of the app no longer features the Radio function, from where you can easily access all your played radio stations, whether from a specific song, a playlist or whatever. Please bring it back! The current way is not as easy as it was before. - If you want to search for a song within any playlist, regardless if its your own or not, this is no longer possible the way we know. Currently we have to click on the three dots in the top right corner to open a new menu, select there "Search in Playlist" and after that, start typing in what we want to search. This is as bad as it can get! Please bring back the old search function where you just have to scroll at the top and select "Search"! - If Spotify developers/managers want to change/delete basic features of the app, which were there since the beginning of it, there should be an option to say: NO, I want the old system/feature back. For example create an option in the settings to switch between new feature/design and old one. - If you navigate to any playlist and search for an artist who has some songs in it, you should be able to play just the displayed songs. No matter if you use shuffle or not. Only the songs which are displayed with this search/filter should be played. At the moment this is not working because every time the whole playlist will be played.

Marco · ‎2015-09-17

There should be an Equalizer for the Desktop version of Spotify. Since Spotify's mobile apps now have an EQ setting, this should be implemented on the desktop version, too! The EQ should come with various presets but also the ability to save your own custom settings.

tesshenkel · ‎2017-02-24

The Inbox/Messaging feature did not get a real shot at even being a feature because Spotify took away notifications for new messages. Give Inbox/Messaging some development so users can continue to privately share songs.

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

Olcique · ‎2015-10-02

How about ordering playlists alphabetically? I'm paying for this service and this feature is the most common and easiest one even for a free music player...

pixelpusher · ‎2012-05-11

Update 17/2/14 - Almost 2 years ago I submitted this idea, and in the last few weeks, the number of Kudos email notifcations I receive daily is getting even more frequent. Thanks to everyone who keep's voting it up, I didn't think it would get 10 votes let alone over 1,000! Clearly it's popular but not as straight forward to develop hence the 'Not Right Now' status from Spotify, but keep the voting! The most rated ideas are getting developed and it's just a matter of time before this one does too. Thanks! ------------------ I'd like to see a miniplayer and mini controls for Spotify that could sit in the taskbar (Windows and Mac!) The idea came about, after I kept maximising and minimising Spotify just to see my play queue and sometimes jump down a few . This is my solution making it a less obtrusive way of seeing what's coming up and track jumping.

colincbn · ‎2017-10-19

Over the last few weeks more and more users are getting a random string of characters as usernames, even if they specified a normal one during sign up. No one on the community website is getting any info from Spotify as to what is going on. During a chat with support I was told: "As part of the long-term plans to remove the username from the sign-up flow, we started rolling out the new sign-up option, with display name instead of a username on the Web page." This does not really answer why we are expected to give people gibberish if we want to connect to our friends, nor why this major change has been implemented without any information going to the public. So my idea is: Don't Do That. Don't make us use gibberish to connect to people, don't make us use gibberish to sign in, don't ask us to choose a username then ignore our requests and replace them with gibberish, and don't make these kinds of changes without informing us as to what you are doing, why you are doing it, and what benifit it may have for us.

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?

i077 · ‎2014-04-27

Hi guys, I've been using the Android app for a bit. To be honest, the UI feels a bit dated and doesn't really fit the Holo design guidelines which you can find here. One example of a really nice redesign is attached to this post. Thanks for considering this. EDIT: Now that Lollipop has been released along with the Material Design Guidelines, I think it would be a good idea to update the UI to fit these guidelines. A nice redesign is now attached to this post.

Viktor · ‎2012-03-14

The Star feature should be complemented with a way to mark tracks as excluded. Those tracks would then be skipped even when included in the current playlist. This way the enjoyment of a good album wouldn't be disrupted by tracks you don't like, while the album in its entirety can still be kept in the playlist. The Anti-star can easily be implemented as a flipside to the regular star as they are mutually exclusive. Click the star once, the track becomes a favorite. Click again, the star icon changes to the anti-star and click a third time and either flag is gone. A no-brainer to me.

atzcapilla · ‎2012-11-05

A common situation: 1) You love Spotify so much, you use it every single day. 2) You find a good song and you save it to Your Music, where you already have zillions of songs 3) So you also want this song into your playlists, which you kinda sort songs by a personal criteria that works for you 3) But this song happens to fit several of your playlists.. and you wonder: Q1: Is this song already in my playlists? Q2: If so, in which one/ones? Here's a simple solution: 1 ) right-click any song 2 ) show ✔ next to the playlists that contain that song Extra features (1): Add how many times a song is repeated in the playlist: Extra features (2): Show ♫ if a song is in your playlists : With this feature you could browse any user playlist or any search result and figure out which songs are in your playlists at once, without checking each of your playlists manually. Do you like the idea? Give it some kudos! =) Thanks, Albert

Hanfaar · ‎2014-09-15

Please make the "connect" feature available on Windows Phone!

brestfloda · ‎2013-02-27

I'd very much like to be able to mark an artist as "Never play songs from this artist". It really subtracts from the radio feature that i get some artists over and over again, no matter how much i thumb them down. Some artists i just NEVER!!! want to appear on my radios, i mean every damned thing that artist has ever done and ever will do, solo, in a band or whatever else thinkable way they could could possibly create music. Yes, i truly, truly dislike Rihannas music.

Deeb · ‎2012-08-13

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

sjyamamura · ‎2018-11-14

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.

ultra_0ne · ‎2018-12-06

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.

Brian16 · ‎2014-04-16

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

bdub · ‎2012-02-10

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!

Spotify Community

Closed Ideas

[All Platforms][Shows] Infowars

[Partnership] Payments with Verge (XVG) Cryptocurrency

[Android] Bring back important/basic features!

[Desktop] Equalizer for the Desktop Version

[Social] Bring back Inbox/Messaging with Notifications

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

[Playlists] Sort List of Playlists alphabetically

[Desktop] Mini Player

[Account] Don't force us to use Numbers as Usernames

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

[Android] Redesign to fit the Material Design Guidelines

[Music] Block / Hide / Blacklist Tracks or Artists

[Playlists] See in which of my Playlists a Song is in

[Windows Phone] Spotify Connect

[Radio] 'Ban' Artist from Radio

[Music] Local FLAC Playback

[Playlists] Sort by most recently added song

[Music] 2018 Wrapped Issues and Errors

[Subscription] Discount for High School Students

Spotify for Games Consoles