June Monthly Ideas Review

[TomLegend]

Monthly 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!

 

IMPLEMENTED:

1.  Sorting Options for List of Playlists

With the recent update to Your Library on mobile, it's now possible to sort and filter your Playlists, Artists and Albums in more ways. 

To find the filters, just pull down on the tab you're on, select filters and then choose the one you'd like. The 'Custom Order' filter on the Playlist section will mirror the order you have on Desktop - which means it's now possible to maintain the way your organise your tunes on Desktop across to Mobile. 

2. Bring Back Albums' Length

3. Add & Remove Content separately (Artist, Album, Songs)

4. Car View

5. Bring back the old Web Player

 

GOOD IDEA:

6. Spotify in Ukraine

Spotify is launching regularly in countries around the world. Please keep an eye on the Spotify blog or signup here to be first to hear if we reach Ukraine.

 

NOT RIGHT NOW:

7. Add complete Playlists to the Queue

We just wanted to update this to say it's possible to add all tracks from a playlist to your queue on Desktop. To do so, just head to your playlist > select all tracks using 'Ctrl/Cmd + A' > right click and select 'Add to Queue'. 

There aren't currently plans to implement this on Mobile,  but if anything changes we'll update you here. 

 

CASE CLOSED:

8. Bring back Recently Played to Your Library

With the new update you can now find your Recently Played tunes section on the home screen. Additionally, it's also possible to sort your Albums, Artists and Playlist by Recently Added. To do so, pull down to reveal the search bar, click the 'filters' options and then select 'Recently Played'. You'll also spot some other filter options too, like 'Name' so you can sort your playlists alphabetically.

9. Bring Spotify's old UI back

10. Option to show Lyrics only

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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[Seanman117]

Your total disregard of community desires is appalling. It's disgraceful for a company to so arrogantly ignore the concerns and wants of its own consumers. It's absolutely amazing how you do not care about the people who traversed your awful looking website to complain about your awful looking update. I will be joining many other people in canceling my subscription if I don't see some semblance of either a UI rollback or a massive revamp of the current UI.

[migsu103]

Please add back the recently played list. It could be easily added as a tab next to playlists, artists and albums.

It is ridiculously stupid design to teach people to use a function for a long time by having it right in front of them and then taking it compeltely away. The recently played list is my way of sorting my music. I very rarely add anything to a playlist. The list at my front page is way too short, and difficult to use.

To be completely real with you, this feature has been what kept me with spotify. Now I don't really have a reason anymore so I might just as well use another platform I already have a subscriotion to for another reason.

[EstebanG]

Is this a joke?

The new update is widely despised. There was loads of feedback about how you have literally RUINED music libraries that had been curated over years of use. For what - slightly easier access to podcasts?

I've been a premium subscriber for years and never, ever felt the need to moan about any updates. But this one stinks. The UI is absolutely dire, the peformance is dire and the response from Spotify has been a farce.

So I've spent the past 2 weeks rebuilding my library in Amazon Music and am terminating my subscription. I am not the only person I know doing this (IRL - it looks like there are literally thousands of people doing it across the broader userbase).

With this response, you've shown that not only are your design team a bunch of cretins, but your community engagement and corporate decision-makers are as well. Honestly, **bleep** you guys. Never have I seen such a shitty attitude towards a userbase in nearly 4 decades of experience of shitty attitudes. 

[overwilhelmed]

This blog post was the last draw for me. Absolutely no acknowledgement of the features that were removed (alphabetical scroll bar?) and simply shutting down the most popular idea on this site with a canned "Case Closed" status which said loudly "WE HEAR YOU, WE DON'T CARE"

Every music service in the market today largely provides the same music library and tailored playlists. Each have their nuances in terms of UI and exclusives. Spotify had the lead in the race in both categories and just cut off one of their legs. Congrats on giving up the lead to Apple Music, Tidal, and Amazon. 

[DonBongo]

I can't believe this is the response to the comments and complaints of the new library experience.

I have hundreds and hundreds of artists whose songs or albums I have saved. Now there is no way to easily view the artists. I do not want to follow an artist who has one or two songs I like nor do I want to follow an artist who has 1 or 2 albums I like. If I follow an artist it is because I want to receive notifications about what they are doing. What is the point of saying you can disable notifications for followed artists?

Furthermore the idea that we have to *manually* add every artist we have ever liked to get them in our library is astounding. There isn't even a whisper about "streamlining" this experience.

It's apparent that someone in Spotify HQ has Grand ideas about "what is best for users" but I implore someone to actually look at the comments, complaints, and suggestions and do something more than say "well you can look at all of your songs in a playlist now".