May 2020 Ideas Review

[Katerina]

Every month the Community Team reviews our Ideas Board and highlights the statuses we’ve updated recently.

Below you can find the statuses changed last month. For more information read: Idea Exchange: How does my feedback reach Spotify?

IMPLEMENTED:

1. [All Platforms][Playlists] Skipping songs in a playlist that you are not the creator of

It's now possible to hide tracks within any playlist on mobile.

Just head to the context menu (three dots), and tap "Hide song". The song will be marked as "Hidden", meaning it'll no longer play in that playlist. This can be undone at any time too.

2. [Music] Block / Hide / Blacklist Tracks or Artists

The option 'Don't play this artist' is now available on iOS and Android.

If we have any information about this on other platforms in the future, we'll report back!

3. [Browse] Hide song in Premium

We're marking this as implemented, as this feature is now available on mobile.

If we have any info regarding this on desktop in the future, we'll head back here with an update.

4. [All Platforms] Sleep Timer

We can confirm this is available on both iOS & Android!

You can check out this idea, if you'd like to vote for a sleep timer on desktop too.

5. Increase maximum Songs allowed in Your Music

We're excited to be marking this idea as implemented!

We've now removed the limit on saved items in Your Library, making it possible to save songs, and albums on Spotify to your heart's content.

As the app has changed quite a bit since this idea was submitted, please be aware that some functionality is now different. This change does not impact the limit on the number of songs in a playlist other than your Liked Songs.

For more info, check out this blog post.

GOOD IDEA:

6. [All Platforms][Your Library] Delete Songs from Account History

7. [All Platforms] "Don't Like Button" should be added to all sections

8. [Podcasts] Push Notification for new Episodes

9. [Social] Real Time "Listen with Friend(s)"

 

CASE CLOSED:

10. [Running] Bring back Running

 

UNDER CONSIDERATION

11. [Mobile] Listening History On Mobile

 

NOT RIGHT
NOW:

12. [iOS][Other] Spotify Alarm on iOS

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.

If you'd also like to see some changes before other users you can sign-up to join our thousands of Beta testers here.

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[Chibuzorehirim]

Hello guys, I'm chiboy. I'm just here to appreciate this Spotify community and also learn some more things about the playlist

[GuyMontag53]

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[33percent]

Hi,

Has anyone raised the idea of playlist statistics?

For example:

- Number of artists

- Average or median number of songs per artist

- Playlist update frequency

- Year of release range (oldest, newest)

- Genres (if Spotify has a classification per artist)

- Number of artists discovered via the playlist

Cheers,

33percent

[rmm_]

I'm a paying customer and I have to say I'm pretty frustrated by a lot of both what's being built and how this customer feedback experience is for sharing ideas.  I searched and found at least 3,000+ people liked an idea I'd love to see implemented - alphabetize playlists.  This to me is a fundamental part of a UI , and as someone with many playlists I don't want to have to do this manually - nor should I.  This is not a difficult ask.  That you're choosing something like 'Real Time listen with friends' rather than the ability to see an alphabetical listing is bizarre to me.  Let's get the individual experience right before jumping to groups.

The second part is that I'm finding trying to see what has been considered on the roadmap, or what might be considered. Even the layout of this - using Khoros' blog template - feels like it's an afterthought.  I don't see why you wouldn't use something like uservoice or any far more robust platforms to manage this.  A dependence on search as a way to see what's being considered is a poor choice.  Again, I love the product enough to pay for it, but I'm disappointed on choices that could provide delight and instead are frustrating.  To drag and drop playlists and to have to it in a narrow window - not full screen - makes it feel like you either didn't notice or don't care.

[Xaalek]

We can't change the sound quality on PS4. Please implement that.