Unable to add songs to other playlists

[JDfunky]

Hi, I am trying to drag and drop songs from one playlist (e.g. my Discover Weekly) to add to another, and I am now unable to do it. When I drag the song over another playlist, it used to highlight over the new playlist, and then I could release the mouse and it would be added. Now, the playlist I am trying to add to does not highlight, and dropping it there does nothing.

Also, if I try the alternative way of adding by clicking on the 3 dots icon, then selecting "Add to Playlist" from the menu, all the playlists that I created that used to show in the list, are no longer there. 

[Bittencourt · Accepted solution]

Hey @JDfunky, thanks for writing.

Just click on the playlist you want to add songs to, and it will "load". Then try again and let me know if this works!

[JDfunky]

That worked, thanks. (how strange that we have to do this to get it to work). Cheers

[user-removed]

Hey Bittencourt, this a bug, or a new "functionality"?

[Bittencourt]

Hi @user-removed,

I don't think it's neither a bug or a new feature. Maybe it's a way to make the app load and run faster. 

I have/follow around 100 playlists but I mostly just listen to a few of them each time. So there's no need for the app to pre load all of them every time. This is just my guess though, I think it makes sense.

Also, I noticed it only happens sometimes. What about you?

[tapenoon]

it's a bug hence it only happens sometimes. in my experience it usually happens when the app is first launched and it sorts itself out after a while and/or right before the app starts hanging (search stops working/ takes ages to load results / playlists/ artist profiles). a restart fixes it and when it doesn't it's that time again where you have to manually completely delete everything, uninstall and re-install. 

[JDfunky]

how is that not a bug? 😮

an incredibly bad user experience, having to go down and click on every single playlist before I can save songs to them. And yes, it only occurs from time to time.

[Bittencourt]

That's true. Let's hope the next app versions solve this issue.

[scrapdaddy]

Dear Bittencourt,

As you seem to be very knowledgeable of the workings of Spotify, and I have wasted hours trying find an answer, is there a way to MOVE a song from one playlist to another as opposed to copying it to the new playlist and then going back to delete it from the original playlist?  I am trying to do this in the desktop app for Mac.

Thanks in advance for any assistance you may be able to provide.  As a sidenote, I see this topic has been raised hundreds of times and seems to be something very intuitive so why does Spotify resist the multiple requests from users?

[Bittencourt]

Hey @scrapdaddy, thanks for writing!

Just select the song you want to move, then click CMD+X, and then CMD+V on the playlist you want to move it to.

Let me know if it works.