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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current main thread regarding the latest updates to the desktop app and we'll be closing new comments here as it is an outdated thread 🙂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
If you hover over the release date in the new 2021 desktop app update or the web player for several seconds, the full release date will show in a popup tooltip. They should just show the full release date by default. The tooltip is slow and small.
Similiar with other folks in here, I would like to raise my concern regarding to this new desktop apps update.
The first one is about the discography, the design team definitely ruin something that already work very well and serve its purpose. Now every time I search towards one artist , I have to select album or single. If I want to check the top 5 played, I also have to back again, what a bad user experience. I suggest to bring back the old UX, its way more intuitive. I already paid for premium, so I wish I can browse seamlessly.
The second one is search, now I have to click search button, just leave search bar as before so I can search without need extra click.
The third one is lyric, this feature is definitely great. But it still need further improvement. Because sometimes the music don't match with the lyric timing. I also suggest lyric can also be downloaded once a song with lyric already downloaded for offline listening.
I don't like that I cannot delete more than one track from a playlist anymore, without being asked whether I really want to delete these tracks. Each single time. Always...
It's nice as a warning for inexperienced users but I think there is better ways to do this so it works for both - the occassional as well as the pro users.
For example, in the same dialogue let me tick something like "Don't show anymore" and the problem is solved right away.
Thanks 🙂
The missing 'artist' column is really bugging me. It may be OK for the kids, but having the artist name under the track title only is hopelessly cumbersome. I've been a subscriber almost since Spotify began and this is a huge step backwards. Actually it makes me look for an alternative to Spotify.
With the new update (Win10), the local files playlist is one click further away (it is hiding in the "Your Library" tab).
Is there a way of pinning this playlist so it appears among the other playlists in the left pane?