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[Desktop][Your Library] Bring Back Separate Song Title and Artist

Submitted by on ‎2021-03-31 07:45 PM
Status: implemented

Not sure who thought it was a great idea to reformat how one can view songs by artist or by title...? It is much more convenient to have the two, side by side, while viewing a library rather than only being able to view the artist name or song name under the other...

Updated on 2023-11-14

Hey folks,

 

Thanks for coming to the Spotify Idea Exchange and voting to make this happen.

 

We're happy to announce that a Compact mode which hides the album art and displays the song's title and artist under two separate columns in playlists and albums is now available on the desktop app and the Web Player! Check out @MattSuda's post here for a detailed overview.

 

Once again, thanks for helping us make Spotify better by participating here on the Community 💚

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Roadie
2021-11-06 03:44 AM
  • It's extremely disappointing how Spotify is chipping away overview and search functinality bit by bit, while they artifically celebrate all the "improvements" on this forum.

I have come to the conclusion that they are converting their service from a platform where you could choose your own music and organise it to a platform that tries to push you towards what they want to sell you. 

rednblu
Roadie
2021-11-07 09:14 PM

That's what it feels like . . . . .

jrham
Roadie
2021-12-12 01:25 AM

This idea is still Live...and there has still been no response from spotify... It's still an awful update and still no one cares about the album column.

9-sw8go_k7qn5
Newbie
2022-01-05 06:34 PM

I despise this change. Months on and it still annoys me, I don't know or search for or sort by album names. 

noemithekid
Regular
2022-01-07 02:28 PM

i hate this change 0mg its been almost a year and i cant get over it. This design ist so f***ing ugly and unfunctional, i really dont know what the h3ll spotify was thinking

JanNetm
Newbie
2022-01-07 02:37 PM

2022 and still nothing, huh.

reynolds087
Newbie
2022-01-27 03:32 AM

Why on earth would there be columns for the duration of a song and the album name, but not the ARTIST??? I can't even believe someone approved this change. It is so disconnected from pragmatism, that I am genuinely begging you to tell me what the reasoning was that this change was made. PLEASE, bring back the artist column, so I can make sense of my playlist. This is the craziest bug passing as a feature that I've ever seen.

babbage78
Newbie
2022-03-20 07:16 AM

I refuse to use this sad excuse for a UI on desktop. You've forced me into becoming an Apple Music subscriber and I am pretty sure I am not the only one. PLEASE BRING BACK THE ARTIST ROW. As a matter of fact, we should be able to add any number of personalized rows that we would like to sort our music by just like iTunes allows you to. The phone app is great but desktop is literally unusable in its current iteration.

rednblu
Roadie
2022-03-20 11:42 AM

 

Unusable that current desktop-- yes!

jrham
Roadie
2022-03-23 10:03 PM

Please let us know if this change is still under consideration. It is very painful to navigate my playlists without having the song and artist as separate columns. Thank you for whatever news you can provide!