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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[Beheer]

I've used spotify premium for years,  and came in search for some answers about the latest update.  Thousands of other users feel the same as I do about losing the ability to scroll the artists by A-Z (And scrolling thru 2500 songs ranking them by Artist A-Z is a very inefficient work around).

What is worse than your rubbish update,  is the lack of response to the hoards of negative feedback.  Surely you understand that your feedback process is so cumbersome,  that many users will simply leave,  rather than submit feedback. If you're only counting negative votes,  you're underestimating the proportion of  dissatisfied customers.  

[vonquotemix]

Switch to soundcloud it's better, doesn't ruin the order of my playlist for me.

[PUBLuigi]

I think they should allow an option for you to choose a certain amount of storage space (like a drop down box with a bunch of increments of storage would be great) and allow spotify to populate that with a bunch of stations that are given they're own section for whenever you're off wifi. When I'm running off data, as I frequently do as an uber driver, I tend to stick to playlists that I have downloaded. I'm someone on an unlimited data plan too, almost all of us have to deal with either hard data caps or throttling so having the option to discover new music without burning through data or just to bolster your offline library automatically.

[fischbrot]

Thats it on the new update? Case closed? Sorting by artists in a folder structure worked perfectly fine and everyone understood how it works right away, because it is so familiar.I search for something? Its sorted like this: Artist->Album->Song

After your update with the new UI you have to constantly say, that we just don't understand how it works (which is the opposite of an intuitive UI design). But in reality you changed the clear folder structure to bunching everything together in a giant >4000-songs-list which i can alphabetically sort. This is NOT good design. There is a reason, Windows has folders instead of bunching every single file in a giant list.

[Samboni83]

Having people provide feedback via community shows the customer you don't care about them or their suggestions/feedback/opinion. It's also difficult to access, find where the input should be put and it will likely be ignored if put into the wrong place obsolving Spotify of assessing feedback in a meaningful way.

Hopefully this is the right place for two suggestions:

1. Allow people to select whether they want to hear commentary from albums OR don't count it as a skip when we don't want to listen to the artists gabbering away in the middle of listening to the music

2. Have a way to toggle off live albums. Even with premium I couldn't do this and I would def pay to never hear live versions again.