[All Platforms] Remember Position in Playlist / Album

[wigglebit]

Please remember the current song playing in a playlist so if I switch away to a different playlist and then switch back, Spotify will know where I left off.

I often can't finish a playlist right away or my mood changes so I might switch to a different playlist. Later, I want to finish the previous playlist, not start over again.

[easytigerjim]

How about this very simple idea at least for the time being: Number the individual playlist songs in the app the same way they're numbered when you access Spotify through a web browser. I can remember a number or jot it down. Then all I have to do is scroll back to that same number when I return to a particular playlist. Remembering the song you left off with doesn't help because you have no idea where that song is within the playlist. But if the songs were numbered (again, already a built-in feature using Spotify via a web browser) you could just scroll right back to that number. Maybe a better question is, why aren't the songs already numbered in the app like they are on a web browser?

[bbc122]

Please add functionality to save spot in playlist so when you go back to it after playing something else it will start playing at the same position of the list. I'm currently having to manually write down everything down to keep track of where I'm up to.

[JimmyLobo]

It's annoying in long playlists, which in my case is most of them, to return to one the next day only to have to scroll and look for the last played song...

[dnls]

Could not agree more. This is probably the most annoying missing feature on Spotify, the missing “resume” button (or optional on/off setting)… I do not understand this; seems such a basic feature. I have lots of playlists of the “most important 100 tracks of genre X” type playlist, and keep hearing the first 10 tracks and never reach the end (I mostly use Spotify through voice command, and would love a “resume playlist” instead of “play (from start) playlist”). There are also some audiobooks etc.

[BobbyBrown12312]

Yes but in addition to the resume resume feature you need the possibility to scroll to the currently played song position within the playlist.

[dnls]

Yes, agree, “jump to current track” is another feature missing, even if I do not see the two features as necessarily depending on one another. I keep hitting Command–L (the traditional Mac shortcut to “jump to current track,” such as in iTunes) but nothing happens in Spotify on Mac. “Jump to current track” should be available as a general shortcut to move the view to the current track in its playlist or album. “Resume playlist” I would like to see implemented like in many Audiobook apps or VLC, as “play from last position in playlist” instead of “play from track 1 again” when I click “play” for a playlist. Related but different use cases in my mind: the resume playlist should remember the last play position in that playlist, even if it has been a while, and the jump to track would simply be based on the current track playing right now … well, that is how I would like to see them anyway 😊

P.S. If anyone has a good workaround to share, please do!

[easytigerjim]

I've resigned myself to the idea that this is not going to happen because it's not what Spotify wants. Why else would they continually dismiss such a simple request that would be so easily implemented? Spotify is all about pushing the new music that they want you to hear and have no interest in listeners creating our own playlists. The ability to make our own playlist is offered by Spotify as a courtesy. We just have to accept this and move on.

[BobbyBrown12312]

@dnls 

ye but imagine they implemented the „resume feature“ but without scrolling to the position eg when opening the playlist.

I’ve more than 1000 songs in „liked songs“ and would not easily find the song position.

and if it won’t be implemented together,…

All other music players that I used and still use support this EASY and BASIC feature of a music player.

[mattcoll]

To me, it's a matter of sometimes I want to listen to music, and then later resume that podcast, or audio book I'm listing to...
But instead of a simple one button "mood select and resume" I have to hunt down what i was listening to.

Again, this has been requested so many times...
Want more evidence...  Try finding a list on spotify of "what I'm listening to and where I'm up to..." Obscurely tucked away in "Listening History" under my profile...  Audible does this much better.
An opportunity for a great useability feature going begging...

[easytigerjim]

Again, Spotify simply doesn't care what its customers want. Because they don't have to.