Fix your AWFUL UI

[spageddy]

Plan

Premium

Operating System

Windows 10/11

Your UI is actually just a joke at this point.
It is clear to me that you do not care about your users feedback and insist on making changes that dont need to be made. The now playing bar is still as obstructing to my view as every, and i cant even resize spotify to its minimum size anymore. Well, i can actually, however, when i minimize spotify and reopen it IT IS SOMEHOW LARGER BECAUSE YOU'VE SET A MINIMUM BOUNDRY THATS BIGGER THAN YOUR ACUAL MINIMUM WINDOW SIZE

Also: the new homescreen overflow is really bothering me. 

This is how small the text is in windowed mode, the playbutton thing is now just invisble instead of dissapearing when not hovering the albums, this causes the text to become smaller to make space for the button, but the next becomes SO UNNECESSARILY SMALL and it isn't even dynamic anymore (heres me streching the page more for context) 

Make your ui more dynamic again and actually nice to use. Give us back the expandable album covers in the bottom left so the friend activity doesn't dissapear. Fix your boundry issues and give me a ring when youve decided you care about UX

Also, the new way of adding thing to likes/new playlist feels unnecessary - id rather have a one click like button than having to decide if i want to put a song in my liked songs or a playlist - this same sequence also makes it really annoying to remove songs from likes

Sincerely someone who actually gives a single F about spotify's UI/UX

[spageddy]

just another example

[Hardcoreboogie]

Whenever apps or websites revamp a basic UI component that aided our workflow for years, it can initially feel as if something existential has been ripped out of our lives. The moment I noticed the "heart button" was replaced by a checkmark generating a pop-up menu, I felt enraged. More options to consider for something that should be so arbitrary - who on this planet could've asked for that?

But quickly after that, I realized Spotify has introduced a powerful tool that actually takes some burdens off navigating and managing our playlists' content. Especially if one has numerous playlists, like me.

What stays the same:

• Tap "like" will simply add a song to our "liked songs". Just like before.

After that, the button turns into a sort of playlist manager.

• We can now instantly see to which playlists the same song has been added. Something we previously had to memorize ourselves - which is near impossible.
• Deleting the same song from multiple playlists can now be done from the menu. Before, we had to open each relevant playlist (assuming we would've remembered which ones), locate the song and delete it.

But perhaps my favorite new feature addresses an issue I had for years already...

When quickly sifting through dozens of releases a day, hundreds a week, thousands a year, I can't remember all the songs I once liked enough to be added to a playlist. More than often, I wasted time scanning through, and selecting songs from an album for the second time, because there was nothing in the UI that somehow indicated I had already done so before.

Now there is! On albums and artist pages, songs that are already present in our playlists are indicated as such by the green dot - similar to how it has always been for liked songs.

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The "now playing" display panel replaces the "friend activity" display panel whenever you click on a song. This is really annoying as you have to go into settings to bring the friend activity panel back. The issue is resolved by removing the "now playing" display panel altogether in settings but, ideally, I would have both! I would love a way to do this easily.

[becting]

Update: Clicking the button with 3 people just left of your profile photo brings the "friend activity" display panel up. To bring "now playing" panel back you have to click the button that is a play button inside of a rectangle that shows up in the bottom right when playing a song. 

A single button that toggles back/forth between the views would be preferred, IMO.