Ideas Review

[TomLegend]

Ideas Review

Hey Folks!

Sorry for the silence over the past couple with the Ideas Review - we've had a busy few months having our annual Rock Star Jam where we flew out our top Community Rock Stars to check out the office in New York. 

Interested in what it takes to be a Rock Star? Just click here.

Now let's check out the latest updates...

IMPLEMENTED:

1. Android Widget

We’re excited to let you know the Android Widget is back. To get listening, make sure you’re on the latest version of the app and Spotify will show in the widget menu on your device.

The widget is now resizable and some stability issues have been fixed. 

2. Screen always on Option when driving

3. Compatibility with Garmin Vivoactive 3 Music

4. Folders for playlists in the Web Player

5. Share Spotify on Snapchat

6 . Adding indivdual Podcasts to Playlists

 

GOOD IDEA:

7. Friendship Playlists

Thanks for adding your vote to this idea. We're marking this as a 'Good Idea'!

As a heads up, Family Mix is available to users on the Premium Family. It's a playlist that combines the music you and other members on your plan listen to. 

8. Voice Control

9. Bring Back Mobile Playlist Sorting/Searching

10. Music Videos

CASE CLOSED:

11. Remove specific Artists from Discover Page

Whilst it's not possible to remove an artist directly from your Home page, there are several ways to give feedback to the app that you don't like certain Songs or Artists. 

- In your Discover Weekly, Release Radar and Daily Mix playlists you can click the 'Hide' button and select either 'Don't play this song' or 'Don't play this artist'.

- You can head direct to an Artist Page, click the three dots and select 'Don't Play This'.

12. Music sharing with people nearby

NOT RIGHT
NOW:

13. Alphabet scroll bar

The A-Z scroll bar is back on iOS, under the Artist tab on Your Library. 

We can see that there are users requesting this feature on Android too. We'll keep the status as 'Not Right Now', so you can keep adding your votes. 

14. Show own Cover Art of shared Playlist

15. View & Shuffle all Tracks in Playlist Folders

16. Remove individual track from saved album

17. Songs changes in OSX Notifications

18. Spotify for KaiOS

19. Support Crossfade on Spotify Connect

20. Personal Song Counter

21. Ability to search within all playlists

22. TV Shows & Movies

We thrive on Ideas

We're actively bringing your comments and feedback to the teams here so they know which features are important to you. If you've got a good idea, you can submit it here.

Want to help manage the Ideas Exchange as an Ideas Guardian? Read more about the Rock Star Program here. 

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[Rene01]

Hi @lautart,

Please submit your idea over here. At the bottom of the page there is button to submit a new idea. Others can vote for your idea and the more votes  the more likely it will get implemented.

Regards,

René

[Crównmusic]

Hi there,
So where do I ever start from I’m most possibly talking to the wrong department, however I would need to passed on to the right people after this query is read & dealt with. So please I would like this query to acknowledged with diligent care and attention.

Right so as an artist on Spotify, Spotify has obviously found a way to try get the more upcoming artist on the editorial playlists chosen by editors if I am correct, however I massively do not see this trend in the Afrobeat genre it’s like the Afrobeat Editor playlist is being ran like the Nigerian government all over again corrupt & very one way road? I watch the trend in the indie editorial, country editorial, etc and I see how upcoming artistes with little to no following there socials, low stream count getting their tracks on editorial playlists. However with my genre, the Afrobeat I’m sorry to say but it’s being run unfairly as all the #Afro editorial playlist all just have the same artist names through out each of them meaning independent artists like myself who has only has been in the game for less than a year to be able accumulate over 100,000 streams is no child’s game and deserves some sorta credit. I appreciate and honour that whoever will be reading this might exactly be able to help, however please as I don’t see music as an hobby & I make it with passion and I’m doing as my focusing on it as a full time career. Therefore their needs to be a change & look into why the Afrobeat editorial playlists don’t feature upcoming artist who are not either verified on Instagram or signed under a label.

[Marcyteb]

I was thinking of the idea of being able to see who our followers are, on our account and even on our playlists. It’s very exciting to see different people whether it be your friends or other Spotify users following your playlist. I hope that this can be a change in a later update 

[Rene01]

Hi @Marcyteb,

Check this idea.

It's one of the most popular idea but the status is: not right now. I think spotify doesn't want to be an advanced social media platform. The social media features are limited now. Also you will get discussions if people want to be seen when they are following a play list. But this is just me guessing 😀 why the status is: not right now.

Regards,

René

[KingGodCurse]

If only we could get personal play counts, Spotify and Developers! Sure, we hear the same "join Lastfm" blah, blah, blah. Lastfm does not show you your historical listening reports, it only starts tracking once you have joined which is nonsense. I wanna know what I played and how many times NUMERIC WISE I've played a certain song before the joining of Lastfm. You guys should REALLY take this idea more seriously.