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Every playlist has a column telling me when I added that song to the playlist. Of all the Spotify metadata do you know what I absolutely, under no circumstance give two craps about? That's right! When I added it to a playlist. What's worse is that as the window gets smaller, does the app keep the song time visible? Nope, gotta know when I added Monkey Wrench to my Foo Fighters playlist. Does it keep the album title? Nope, why would you want to see that but here's when you added Sgt. Baker to your Primus playlist. In fact, the desktop client on Windows won't allow you to make the window narrow enough to remove that column. Does Spotify not hire UX people?
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Sorry. I feel better. So seriously how do I remove that pointless column?
Okay. I'll bite. Why do you care when you added a track to play list?
Fair enough. Not the way I need it but I see your point.
We'll just need to agree to disagree on the UX question. I build enterprise class software for a living and the current Spotify client has all the hallmarks of "mobile first" decision making. Which inevitably means that mobile client is pretty good and the desktop client is meh at best. I certainly remember a far more feature rich desktop client back when I was Spotify user a year and half ago.
Yep and sure enough... a Chromium license notice and... a Windows Template Library?? Wow. No technical reason for the limitation (both add/remove columns and resize), this is just straight laziness on Spotify's part. They want to write the client once (for mobile/web) and then just port it to the desktops. Bad. Objectively bad.
Hey Spotify please don't turn into Tidal. I left them because of their desktop client.
Maybe you should start 'Remove Columns From Playlists' as a new idea in Idea Submissions
They already exist.
Besides, voting something up is pretty much meaningless now. Look at the local FLAC playback. Been up since 2012, thousands of up votes, still hasn't been implemented. Same with desktop EQ. Same with column resize... Spotify knows they don't really have compitition so for now Spotify gets to crap on it's customers. If Tidal ever got their crap together I'd go back to them but their desktop client is worse than Spotify's.
Oh God. This so much. I've been trying to adapt to it but since they've made it so much more difficult to resize the desktop player (why can't I get rid of the "Find Friends" column?) it's actually making me question why I keep paying for a service that fills my day with petty aggravations. I am totally with you. When I added a song is meaningless when I listen to most of my playlists on shuffle anyway. I would so much rather be able to see the length of a song or the name of the album. It's ridiculous that this has been a problem for so long.
I'm an instructional systems designer, but I worked for a custom software development company for 17 years---you know, programmers, software developers, graphic designers, web developers, UT people, editors, etc. etc.---and UX professionals, too, of course!
So your rant really made me laugh. OUT LOUD! Seriously! I'm a relatively new "serious/daily" Spotify user, and I've been shaking my head in disbelief over the same inanities you mention---and more. Is Spotify in financial trouble or something that prevents them from making some amazing improvements... improvements that would prevent the competition from gaining ground?
And Spotify? If you're listening? This is not rocket science. I can recommend experienced, talented professionals who can take care of all the usability deficiencies your main target audiences are complaining about. They could even work directly with your team to help them make it all happen Wouldn't that be great? (You know... "Better product = Happy Customers and Better Reputation = Stronger Outcomes = However you define them, for example "More Market Share, Money and Fame!" right?????)
"why can't I get rid of the "Find Friends" column?"
Go to the View menu and uncheck "Right Sidebar." No more Find Friends column.
I just want to see the name of the song and who sings it. Length, when I added it and on which album it originally was are of no interest to me. If I could change the width of the columns I could see what I want. But no. What we give you is what you get.
Sorting the playlists by name should be an option too. I have to scroll through it al the time and because it is not in alphabetical order it is not easy to find what I am looking for as I have many playlists... 😞
It is a good thing that I have more ways to listen to the music I want... Spotify is very low on my to go apps, so if it is not as I would like it I just stop using it when I get fed up with it... And I am almost there now.
I detest the "new" windows desktop version. I had stifled updates to keep the old version until finally spotify did something that hosed my new releases lists. I'm on the new version but i hate it. Can't resize columns? Can't reorder columns? Cmon, Spotify, it's bad business to remove functionality.
It would be nice to be able to move them to our preferences like I’d like to how long the song is also before when I downloaded it! Also if the columns were adjustable that would help too
but thanks for explaining I was also frustrated I lost the time column as well under the friends column that I also like to see!
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