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Sorting search results feature no longer available on Mac Desktop.

Sorting search results feature no longer available on Mac Desktop.

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Free/Premium

 

 

Operating System

OS X

 

My Question or Issue

 Why can I no longer sort my search results alphabetically either by artist or song name or album?  This was a really useful feature when trying to track down difficult to find tracks or even searching for various covers of a song but it appears to have gone. Is it another case of dumbing down, or some sort of long-running glitch that no-one at spotify wants to fix. I'm using the latest version of High Sierra.

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Sorting results is ESSENTIAL!
Please fix this fault asap...
Cheers!

This feature was WIDELY REQUESTED in 2014 and it was added that year. Why would this critical feature get removed? I search in Spotify all the time, and the ability to sort by title or artist is extremely important.

 

PLEASE GIVE US THE SORTING SEARCH RESULTS FEATURE BACK!

I understand that the Search Results are now configured to load more as you scroll down, and that probably messes up the Sorting, but I would rather have everything load and be able to sort.

 

Does anyone else prioritize Sorting over loading more results as you scroll?

Re scrolling down - do you not just see more results because you ARE scrolling? i.e. that's a "view" issue? iTunes' decision that 100 results are enough for any search is even more maddening than this Spotify c**k-up, but then I don't expect sense from Apple...
What's Amazon Music like?

I strongly suspect it has all been optimised (ie dumbed down) for IOS usage where such things are not practical on microscopic phone screens.

I use a PC with Windows 10. When I scroll down my search results, the scroll bar jumps as more results are loaded below. Just like searching in Facebook. I'm guessing there is something about having a NOT-fixed amount of results that hinders the Sorting feature, but I hold Sorting as much more important than adding more results as I scroll.

I'd rather move from page to page, as in Amazon shopping results, if the results were sortable. I just don't understand how Spotify think this is acceptable. Are ANY users happy?

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