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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current main thread regarding the latest updates to the desktop app and we'll be closing new comments here as it is an outdated thread 🙂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
Plan
Premium
USA
Operating System
Windows 10
My Question or Issue
Where has the ability to play 'liked' songs by an artist gone? Before this recent update, you used to be able to either go to 'Artists' or the artist page itself and choose to play only 'liked' songs. That ability appears to be completely gone. As far as I can tell, the only place to hear 'liked' songs is by going to the 'Liked Songs' playlist, which contains EVERY song you've liked.
How can I listen to only the songs I want to from a particular artist? It's like you've killed the whole reason to like songs.
I just got upgraded to the new Spotify UI and I must say it is not very nice to use.
My current version is 1.1.55.498.gf9a83c60-a
I mainly listen to podcasts, and in the left menu there is no more "Podcasts" link. So previously I got to my podcasts in one click, now I have to make 2.
I have not found a way to filter out the podcast episodes I have already listened to, so I need to scroll down to the episode I want. If I have happened to miss any then finding those between the ones I have listened to will be a nightmare.
The cards for episodes are way too big, which means that the scrolling time is quite annoying. Right now I am listening to a 300 episode podcast and I am at episode 80. The scrolling is already bad, I can't imagine what it will be when I get to 200s.
Will those features make it back into the Spotify desktop app or should I go somewhere else to listen to podcasts?
I listen to a lot of podcasts, some which have hundreds of episodes also. The new update has taken away my ability to see what I have already listened to which is a nightmare, it also isn't marking any new ones I play as listened. I have had to take up writing down on paper what episode I'm on per podcast which is ridiculous.
Also the new U.I. is awful.
Just got the update.
Not reading through all these threads, but here's my #1 issue:
I can't drag the title of an album to a playlist folder and have it create that playlist.
Also, far too much whitespace (on a 2K monitor), please make it more information dense.
I think your users would appreciate a real user manual to guide us through things. No more of this online help **bleep**. Give us a pdf or a straightforward SSG based doc library - and don't mix mobile + desktop per page (that's very un-user friendly document design).