10,000 song limit

[#1]

This is more just a plea to the people at spotify:

Why have you put a limit on how many songs we can have in our own music? It just makes no sense!! I've filled up my 10,000 song limit allowance already and now want to save more music but can't.

The quicker this can be changed the better as I am seriously considering cancelling my subscription

[#2]

This is a (non-official) response I found on another site, I too have the same issue

1. Very few playlists approach 10000 songs. If we increased the limit, it would only benefit and extremely small fraction on users, so we'd be spending precious resources on something that only a fraction of users would benefit from. 

2. For users that approach the limit, it's very easy to work around by creating another playlist. 

3. It's not clear if a single long playlist of 10000+ is a very useful way of navigating songs.

From here

[#3]

When Spotify made it clear they didn't care what their users want, I downgraded to v .9.7.16. However sooner or later Spotify will make it really clear they don't care what their users want and force an upgrade. I was skimming through the forum and noticed this topic. I have about 3,000 CD's ripped to my hard drive and many more digitally purchased tracks. Is Spotify seriously saying they'll only import up to 10,000 tracks? I can understand having a 10,000 track limit per playlist but limiting an entire collection to 10,000 tracks is just plain stupid. It's not like Spotify's catalog is close to being complete or anything.

[#4]

I think the 10,000 track limit is just an issue with the Your Music not with the Local Files folder of the app. I believe you are still able to add as many local file songs as you wish. Although I only have a little over a couple thousand right now as most of the music I had in local files I found in the spotify service and use those versions instead. Everytime I have done a full fresh install of the spotify desktop app the first thing it does automatically is search for local music files still, and always adds what is currently almost 7800 tracks currently. You can add it all just be prepared for the spotify app to automatically link any local files you have with whatever is in the spotify service. I always drag and drop manually any local music files a few at a time such as single albums and adjust accordingly to what spotify wants to do from there. As sometimes the spotify linking can get screwy and messed up.

[#5]

You can definitely have more than 10k local files imported. The 10k limit only applies to your music (which you can't *really* add local files too at the minute anyways).

[#6]

Thanks  guys. Good to know Spotify isn't that crazy yet.

[#7]

By the way, the actual limit for songs per playlist is 1,000, as far as I know. And drawing a conclusion from the fact that hardly anyone has playlists longer than 10,000 songs to limiting the complete user library (which is Your Music -> Songs now) to 10,000 songs is hard to understand. I like the new easy method of saving an album which automatically adds all its songs to Your Music -> Songs, but I have to keep in mind this limit all the time and only pick the most interesting albums from my favorite artists, otherwise I already would have hit it in the meantime. Users who are not aware of it (probably most Spotify users) will simply run into this wall wondering what happened.

[#8]

@hans-jürgen Is that limit exactly at 1000? I just tried a test playlist to see if I could reach this limit? I am already over the 1000 limit with all spotify content no local files at all. In fact I am at exactly 1147 songs on a test playlist. I like to see things sometimes myself, I have always seen the 10,000 track limit, so I wondered and tested, I think I broke it. :-)

[#9]

I thought I had read about a 1,000 songs limit recently, but maybe got something wrong, perhaps in the context of radio stations internally only using the first whatever number it is when you base them on a playlist. I have some old playlists myself converted from Last.fm which have more than 1,000 songs as well, e.g. my loved tracks.

[#10]

Ahh ok, no harm no foul, just checking and making sure I am not reading things wrong. "Now wipes forehead of sweat thinking of needing more playlists when I actually don't". :-)