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

[Frostman233]

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...

[Frostman233]

Good news!

There is now a new Compact Mode for track lists (playlists and album pages) in the desktop app and Web Player

The drop down menu now has "Sort by" and "View as" options. To turn on compact mode, open up the drop down menu at the top right of a playlist or album page and click on "Compact" under "View as".

On Playlist pages, it removes the album art, and breaks out "Title" and "Artist" into their own separate columns again. This view is similar to before the redesign that added album art into playlists a few years ago.

On Album pages, it moves the artist and featured artists from below each track title, to a new "Artist" column to the right of the "Title" column.

When you turn on Compact Mode, it will be remembered and stay on when you are viewing both playlists and album pages. You can switch back to the regular "List" view at any time.

The new Compact Mode for track lists is rolling out in the desktop app and Web Player right now so you should be seeing it soon. This has been a highly requested feature since the redesign came out a few years ago.

[öäüß]

• 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]

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

[jrham]

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]

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

[noemithekid]

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]

2022 and still nothing, huh.

[reynolds087]

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]

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]

Unusable that current desktop-- yes!

[jrham]

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!