Could we please have the link to local files back? The only other way to get there now is to search for a random track and click on it from search, which is unnecessarily indirect.   If you want people to make the effort of looking for the streamed version of a track, why don't you just add a little PSA politely suggesting that they do so instead of resorting to hostile design like this?   Spotify, please stop simplifying the UI at the expense of functionality: at this point you're one or two lost features away from leaving yourself vulnerable to competitors. ... View more

Hi,   I have cross fade disabled but yet the app insists on cross fading and starting 3 minute songs at the 1 minute mark   please help   the phone app and desktop app both do the same and i'm very close to cancelling spotify ... View more

Ok, the filter option is terrible.   First, if you arent at the top of the playlist, you need to scroll all the way up to see the filter results. seriously its common sense. The filter should automatically bring you to the top... of course.   Also, the filter option should work that way : you search for a song, click on it to play it, filter cancels, and when song is over the other songs in the playlist play normaly. filter should not stay on and you should not have to click the X to cancel the filter. Or just add a pop up window to search for a song in playlist. like jump to file on winamp. ... View more

I was previously able to sort my search results when looking for song titles, which made it easy to find the song and version I wanted.  With one of the recent updates (not sure how recent) I've lost that ability!  I do a lot of searching and now it's a lot harder to find the specific song/version I'm looking for.  Can y'all please bring this back?? ... View more

I use Stitcher for my podcasts but would love to switch over to use Spotify exclusively, but there are a couple things standing in my way.   1. PLAYLISTS THAT AUTOMATICALLY UPDATE One of the important things my podcast app does is allows me to build playlists that I have set to automatically download when a new one is available. After I've listened to it I immediately delete the download. This way I have a varied assortment of playlists in my genre that I can seamlessly and effortlessly stay current with by simply listening to my downloads in chronological order.    2. MARK MULTIPLE AS PLAYED  Also, there has to be a way to mark multiple episodes as heard. This is a wall. I've listened to hundreds of episodes of many podcasts and to go through and mark all of them as played via mobile will take forever. I should be able to select many in the desktop app and mark as played. Otherwise, I won't use this app at all for podcasting.    Right now, Spotify has all the podcasts I want to listen to, but these two features make this an absolute no-go. I'm excited to see the improvements so far and really hope these get implemented.  THANKS!   ... View more

Due to a recent change in the UX / UI, Spotify no longer allows users to right-click on Songs, Albums or Artists to create auto-generating Radio Stations. Moreover, the "Thumbs Up" function which would add the song(s) to a playlist called "Liked from Radio" has been removed.   It used to be the case that when I right-clicked on any song, album or artist to "Go to Song Radio" or "Go to Artist Radio" a radio playlist would appear. This playlist would auto-update as you proceeded through it, listening to the songs, and would modify the upcoming songs based on whether you clicked "Thumbs Up" or "Thumbs Down". The songs on which you clicked "Thumbs Up" would also be added to an auto-generated Playlist called "Liked from Radio". This feature now no longer appears.   I have looked up this issue on the Community forum and online in general but nothing comes up which seems to replace this function. The closest thing I have found when reading about people's similar issues is that it could / should have been replaced by a "Heart" / "Stop sign" button. However, neither of these appear on my auto-generated Radio stations either. One strange thing is that I have managed to locate certain pages / subsections of Spotify where both the thumbs up / down and the heart / stop sign do still appear, but there does not appear to be any consistency to when this occurs.   I was told by a Spotify customer support agent in a chat that this is due to a recent intentional update to the UI / UX, but I cannot see any obvious gain / benefit presented by the change, whereas I can personally confirm that there are distinct disadvantages and a marked reduction in the use / function of the platform in general.   Please bring back these functions to Song Radio and Artist Radio Stations. Being able to shape the auto-generating algorithm and add the songs to the "Liked from Radio" playlist is surely one of the most useful functions of Spotify and I am anxious to have it back. ... View more

Also see this discussion on the forum, about how the queueing system is confusing to people that like to listen to full albums at a time. The issue is that "Play album" does not work as expected.   Allow me to copy-paste my conclusion about the current situation from that other topic:   ✔  Spotify has a working "Add to queue" feature. Just click the ... and choose "Add to queue". That always works as expected, both on songs and on albums. However, Spotify has more than just that queue: ✔  Spotify has a working "Play song" feature, and will follow-up with related songs. Spotify likes to keep playing, so it will automatically create a "Next up" list based on the song you started playing, usually beginning with other songs in the same album, and then others by the same artist. But these are just suggestions; your manual queue will take precedence. ❌ Spotify does not have a working "Play album" feature. The confusing thing is of course that there is a Play icon on albums. But when you click it, that doesn't play the album, it just executes "Play song" on the first track of that album. See above for what happens then. Why is that an issue?   Well, suppose you want to play Album A and then Album B. A rather intuitive way to try and get that done is this: Go to Album A and click "Play" Go to Album B and click "Add to queue" That doesn't work. In reality, it will play the first song of Album A, then Album B in its entirety, and then the remainder of Album A. This is not at all what anyone would expect if you execute the above two actions.   Suggested fix: clicking "Play" on an album should: empty the queue fill the queue with the entire album start playing the queue (possibly do something with "Next up" if you like -- we don't mind that, as long as the album we wanted to play is guaranteed to play thanks to being in the queue) ... View more

I am evaluating Spotify Premium and was pretty happy until my radio stations disappeared, and all I can find are playlists. I actually watched as the Queue ran out of songs. After 3 hours of texting support, I was told to come here and suggest a change. Are you kidding me?????There are free alternatives that have radio stations. Please fix this soon, or myself and many like me, will soon be with the competition.  ... View more

With the Spotify 🎵 app we used to hover over the tray icon, seeing song info and controls like previous/pause/play/next.  This was an awesome feature!  Please bring it back 👍 . Without bigging up the app, we could: see song details, click next song, previous song, pause, etc...   I'm currently using a MacBook. I don't see an option in Settings to fix this. It must be an app thing...   Spotify - please update the app to include these "hover" options. ✨ Thank you!   *** Fellow users reading this post! *** Please upvote/like this post!   Spotify requires 100 upvotes in a year to consider a suggestion.  *** *** ***  *** *** *** ... View more

Dear Spotify,   Please could you release the full genre list (1000+) that you use to categorise music? I've spent a while down the rabbit hole trying to find it online (including previous posts on here that were "resolved"), but couldn't. It seems to me that it should be available for users—particularly paying ones.    If it is freely available, could you point me in the right direction?   Many thanks ... View more

I'm often frustrated by the many useless entries that pollute the "back button" navigation history. For instance:   1. I search for something and get a search result 2. Click one of the matches, an artist 3. Click the artist and reach their overview page 4. Go to the artist's bio 5. Go to the "fans also like" page 6. Go to the overview page again   Here comes the frustrating part: 7. Now I feel I'm done with this artist and want to go back to my search results. But clicking the "back" button takes me back to the previous location only , and to get back to the search results, I must keep clicking all the way through steps 6, 5, 4, 3...   Of course, a direct link back to the search results would solve this particular problem. But I think some smart deletion of navigation history entries would spare the user many frustrations in many situations.   In this example, I would want all the navigation within the Artist sub-pages deleted once I return to the artist overview page. There are only four pages in this space and it does not serve me to re-live how I went back and forth between them.   Thanks, Mattias ... View more

On my phone I can list podcasts by recently updated, which is nice to find the ones that have added a new episode. On my desktop I can only list alphabetically or when i added them.  It'd be nice to be able to do the same on my desktop. ... View more

* iTunes let you open a playlist in a separate window; Spotify should too! * You can have multiple playlists open at the same time. * You could still have suggestions for song editions at the bottom of these playlist windows if the window is tall enough; if it's not then hide the suggestions.  * You could use the same "song list table" that adjusts available columns based on width. ... View more

With a group of friends we are making a playlist (public). There is this user, outside of the friend group, that keeps deleting the list to then add all songs ever made by the band "Death". We can't find a way to report the user because he is not posting offensive descriptive texts or anything of the sort. Why is there not yet a "report user" for an "other reason" than the ones now in the menu? We have no clue where to go now! ... View more

It would be great to be able to search for multiple artists, albums, etc in one search, through a similar method to adding multiple recipients in emails through a semicolon. An example being [artist 1]; [artist 2]. This way it would be easier to shuffle multiple artists together without having to make a new playlist. ... View more

First, I know what you're going to say.  There's already an idea for this, blah blah blah...  except you guys marked it complete and we can't comment on it and it's NOT COMPLETE!  I'm sorry, I don't normally use rage caps, but the amount of time I've spent trying to figure out how to give you feedback on this has been stupidly rage inducing.  I'm really happy you have this feature on mobile devices.  But all I want to do is turn on some background music at my desk while I work today using my dock and speakers at my desk and no, I don't want to spend enough time to make my own playlist.  I want to use your new music Friday playlist.  Except what do you think the first @#$%ing lyrical sentence was on the very first song??  "I want to Fu@# you..."  My HR director and CHRO sit three @#$%@#$ing doors down from my office guys.  come on.  it's not that hard.  you already have explicit tags on the songs.  I don't want to babysit the playlist so just let me tick a box on the desktop client to skip songs with the explicit tag.  Please please please please.  And if you honestly just want to lump this all under one idea, so be it, but until you've implemented it across all platforms (or at the very least, implemented it on the web interface so I can do it on my laptop), IT'S NOT *&Y^ing IMPLEMENTED!!!!   Again, apologies for the rage caps, but come on peope. A) this should be easy to do, B) I've wanted it for over a year now (as have others clearly) and C) don't make it so blasted hard for people to tell you what we want!  The comments on that idea should remain open or you should leave a separate idea open for every unimplemented platform until implementation completes on that platform.   ... View more

In the current desktop version, the volume is adjusted by three methods: 1. With the slider on the lower right. 2. From the top menu, Playback -> Volume Up/Down. 3. Keyboard shortcut keys to use the 2. option.   This is alright when the music is played on the computer where the desktop application is installed. However, if the music is played on an external device, such as a remote speaker, the volume control can easily get out of hand. Using the slider with a trackpad is often tricky for fine control and using the 2nd or 3rd option does not give a fine control, but rather a bulk increase or decrease.   Therefore, either making it possible to control the volume in a finer way by using the 2nd or 3rd option or adding plus and minus buttons near the slider would be a big convenience. ... View more

Hi!   Why can't I find the album titles of the songs when a playlist is created? That kind of information should be included or at least optional to add. The length of the song could also be there just like the year and the rating.   Will you fix this soon? ... View more

This is not a duplicate of any idea I have found. My idea was not described as well as I wanted in my previous post. I would like Spotify to show in Fullscreen mode only the song name and artist name without anything else. No album cover. No empty space on left and right margin. Just the text in as large font as humanly possible. This way I can be away from my desktop computer and see the name of the song and the artist. It will not feel like I'm working with my computer when I can be far away from it while listening to music. Tip for the programmers: you can make a bitmap of the text (screenshot) and enlarge it, if the size of the system font is not big enough for a desktop monitor.     ... View more