February 2019 Ideas Review

[TomLegend]

February 2019 Ideas Review

Every month the Community Team reviews our Ideas Board. In this blog we'll present some of the ones we’ve updated in the past month!

Want to know what's been going on in the Ideas Board in the last 30 days? Let's take a look...

 

IMPLEMENTED:

1.  Spotify in India

We're very happy to announce that Spotify is now available in India. You can check out the press release here.

2. Spotify on Discord

3. Swipe Gestures for Mac Trackpad

 

GOOD IDEA:

4. Option to disable Videos in curated Playlists

While we don't have plans for disabling video content in playlists, we're marking this as a 'Good Idea'. Please know your feedback is reaching the internal teams at Spotify and they're aware of the votes around this idea.

 

NOT RIGHT NOW:

5.  Wish Box for missing Tracks & Artists

We're switching this idea to 'Not Right Now', as this isn't something we have any immediate plans to implement. We appreciate you sharing your thoughts.

 

 

6.  View all Playlist Followers

8.  Play multiple selected Playlists

9.  Opt out of live songs

10. Sorting Options for List of Playlists

11. Make Spotify Connect a Choice

12. Warning when a Track is removed from Spotify

We thrive on Ideas

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[Redinferno]

I don't get it- why is the 'Getting the old playlist sorting back' idea that was posted in February and garnered more than a thousand votes have just been marked as a new idea again when we entered March? Are you guys this negligent and insistent on removing ease-of-use and accessibility in order to look cool like some chic modern art café?

This is it, I am tired of this nonchalance and this habitual practice of regarding your customers as preschoolers. Goodbye Spotify.

[Peter]

Hey @Redinferno,

Thanks for reaching out about this.

As far as we can tell, the idea you're referring to (this one) is currently marked as 'Not Right Now'. Did we miss something? If so, let us know and we'll be happy to clarify.

Thanks! We'll be looking out for your reply.

[pattex31]

No, I think he meant this one. The other one seems to be from 2012(!).
As with the new update (at least new for me) there is no possibility to go to the songs saved from one artist, since the artists in the artist tab only lead to their respective artist page. Instead we have one giant "Liked Songs" Playlist (5000+ tracks) with every song we saved, which we should go through, just to play the songs we like from an artist? In which filtering for a string plays every song, which has the string somwhere in their title's, artist's or album's name?
Or are we supposed to create a Playlist for every artist, with only the songs we like from them? That would take hours, and it doesn't help decluddering the UI. Saving Albums is also not an option, since there are a lot of them, which consist half of instrumentals and live versions, that one might not like to hear; or are Singles and EP's which make you switch Albums every few minutes.

Also Saving a whole album makes it appear in the "Album" tab solely, while saving a whole album apart from a few songs makes the songs appear in "Liked Songs" not in the Album tab.
I don't see any advantages in the new UI and sorting, and I am genuinly mad about how inconvenient it is. If this doesn't get fixed soon I really have to consider changing to another platform.

[Redinferno]

@Peter, Sorry for the confusion- what I meant was this! I understand that there are loads of other issues that must be looked into, but I'm frankly dumbfounded why would the search function be hidden under context menus. 

[Peter]

Hey @Redinferno - no worries 🙂

Apologies for the confusion - the Idea was changed by mistake so we reverted it back to its previous status.

We'll update its status as soon as we have more information.

Thanks!