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UPDATE - May 5th, 2023
Hey folks,
We appreciate the feedback you've provided us with regarding the new desktop UI; it's being taken into account!
We're chiming in to redirect you to the current main thread regarding the latest updates to the desktop app and we'll be closing new comments here as it is an outdated thread 🙂
Thanks!
UPDATE - April 16th, 2021
Hey folks,
We've tried to cover most of the frequently asked questions concerning the new update in this Spotify Answer - Make sure to check it out!
We'll continue to go through all your posts in this blog, so if you have any other questions besides the ones in the FAQ, feel free to add them in a comment below.
Thanks,
The Community Moderator Team
UPDATE - April 8th, 2021
Hi Everyone,
Yesterday we published a blog post on our engineering blog which goes into more details on the new UI, the reasons behind it and the process of building it. If you'd like to read a few more details like that you can check it out here.
I'd also like to mention a few things coming in upcoming versions of Desktop
Thanks,
Dan
ORIGINAL POST -----
Hi everyone
Dan here from the Desktop team again. I wanted to make another post to once again thank you all for your continued feedback, and also give a little more detail about what we’re doing from here on in.
In short, the new user interface is the future of the Spotify Desktop client, and over the coming weeks we’ll roll out the new UI to all Desktop users. Many of you will have noticed already, but we’ve based the new experience on the more modern and scalable Web Player codebase, and in doing so made both versions more aligned and easier to use than ever before.
Why are we making this change?
We believe in the future of the Desktop platform and want to make sure it can still serve the needs of our users now and into the future.
The existing Desktop UI codebase became increasingly hard to maintain as time went on, and you may have noticed a growing gap between the Desktop and Mobile apps in some cases. For those of you interested in the technical details, a blog post on the engineering blog is coming soon. The short story, however, is that our desire to continue pushing Desktop forward and bringing new features to it became incompatible with the reality of maintaining the legacy experience.
Meanwhile, we had a Web Player serving similar user needs, but built in a much more modern and scalable way — with a more cohesive Spotify “look & feel”. We therefore resolved to use the Web Player UI code as the basis for both Web and Desktop in the future, and have been spending quite some bringing the Desktop-class features that you’ve come to expect to this shared platform. You’ve had a sneak peek of this as we’ve been testing and building things out, so once again I’d like to thank you for both being a part of it and giving great feedback on this thread that has definitely helped us improve.
Benefits of this approach
Firstly, I’d like to say that this really is a new beginning for the Desktop app. Long-term Desktop users will start to notice more rapid iteration on the app than they’ve seen in the past.
I’d like to call out some of the things in the new Desktop, and also give you a little taste of what’s to come.
Design - We’ve focused on consistency, are using more color to enhance the experience where appropriate, and are making better use of cover art and album images in the app. We're also better aligned to other platforms, put an increased focus on accessibility, interactions and animations, and have tightened up our design language, so it’s more in line with what users have come to expect from Spotify.
Functionality - We’ve brought the functionality that users expect from Desktop, like sorting/filtering, drag & drop, and advanced settings and options, whilst improving areas like playlist creation and curation, profile pages, and more. In many cases these improvements have landed in the Web Player, so the work here has benefited our combined users on both platforms.
Tip! You’ll also find new keyboard shortcuts for many tasks (press ctrl+? to see them) which makes certain actions much faster and easier for any user.
We are also aware that there are a few aspects raised in the community that haven't been fully addressed as part of this update, but items like the Search Bar and discography on artist pages have ultimately been brought closer in line with other Spotify applications. That said, we will continue to iterate on the experience across both platforms moving forward.
The future of Desktop
As mentioned above, this change to the Desktop UI gives us the ability to move faster in bringing you new improvements, features and functionality — so you can expect to see continued improvements to the client in the weeks and months to come.
Once again, I’d like to thank you all for helping us shape the Desktop App over the past year on behalf of everyone here at Spotify, and please do continue to post your feedback and use our Ideas section here in the Community to tell us what you’d like to see and why.
Thanks again,
Dan
OH man, this update is bad, real bad. The UI is hot garbage. I'm really wishing I didn't just move everything from YouTube Music.
I think ignoring the 1000+ constructive comments that users have made on the beta-version and still pushing this majorly inferior UX is utterly distasteful and disrespectful towards your user base.
Remember that your users are not your enemies — like Spotify and all its developers and employees, they share the desire for the app to be as good as possible, and they have provided more than enough feedback to make clear their wants and needs. Your users, your customers, are what gives your service right of existence. So don't alienate them.
If you need more development time to make the new modern-technology-based desktop app as excellent as the previous version, no problem! We will wait and we will not mind. We do mind, however, being pushed to use a new desktop app that is not quite done yet and does not provide the functionality and accessibility we need. Isn't it tragic how @NickParotte passionately expressed his excellent feedback, but in vain? Congratulations, you have lost a previously loyal customer. I'll be re-evaluating my subscription, too, as soon as I'm plagued by the new update.
Cheers, Rob
So eum.
My spotify ravinshingly updated itself following a restart as it stopped responding spontaneously. I've now seen the new interface and allow me to ask,
Are we just gonna:
- Remove the search bar at the top and put it in its own separate menu?
- Split albums in their own dedicated pages rather than simply scrolling down on the artist's page?
- Eradicate the 'Made for you', 'Recently played', 'Podcasts', 'Albums' and all other useful links from the left column?
Tell me there's an option to customize the interface I've missed out on. There's no way they just rolled out such a downgrade to dab on us (unless those options have now been converted to premium as a way of 'blackmailing' free users into buying premium).
I know it sounds like a lot of drama for no reason, but we lost so much fluidity from the previous version where you would just take 0.5 seconds off work to search tunes you just heard of, navigate through a newly discovered artist's library or find the history of what you previously listened to in one click.
What are your thoughts?
My windows desktop app must have been updated. It looks different this morning, more like the web player.
It looks slightly nicer but it's taken away the last bit of functionality that made me able to use Spotify. Because spotify lacks so many features and functionality I have been forced to use playlists to organise all of my music.
If I have a playlist with 1,000 songs and I add a new one, it goes to the bottom, if there's a specific part in the playlist I want that song to be. I would hit ctrl+x and scroll to where I want it, then press ctrl+v and it would paste into the correct position. Now I can't cut and pasting just adds it into the bottom again.
It's so ridiculous and crazy that WinAmp has better features and functionality than every single billion dollar companies music streaming service.