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[Mobile] Remove current Song from Playlist

Submitted by on ‎2012-02-21 01:07 PM
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Hi

 

This is a usability improvement for the Mobile devices. Sometimes I want to remove songs from a playlist. This is currently quite a long task to perform on the mobile device.

 

  1. I first have to select the right playlist.
  2. Then I have to locate the song, which is not listed alphabetically. They are listed in the order I built the playlist with the oldest first and newest last.Some of my playlists have up to 900 songs in them and scrolling slowly can be difficult and timeconsuming.
  3. Then click on the "pencil" icon and  delete the track I don't want.

I think it would be a better user experience if we could delete songs as easy as it is to add them to a playlist. 

 

So here's a suggestion for the mobile app, look there's even a space for it on the info page! Smiley LOL

 

Spotify Delete Track Idea

 

Cheers

 

J

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UPDATE 3 June 2017

I have been contacted by user eviljojo22 who has developed a Plugin that creates a playlist named "Remove from Spotify" and every 45 minutes minutes it deletes every song in it and also in every playlist in which that same song appears (which may not be what you want). However, this is an option that may help you before Spotify gets round to providing this very simple function. Good luck (and Thank you EvilJojo22)

Connect on https://spotify-playlist.eivo.fr

 

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UPDATE 7 February 2019

I have been contacted by user bamboony who has developed an android app that might solve the problem in the short term:

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=org.bamboomy.delete.deletespotifytrack

 

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UPDATE 15 February 2022

They delivered! This feature now exists. Click the three dots while playing a track and select the option "Remove from this Playlist"

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Updated on 2022-07-19

Hey folks, 

 

If you'd like to remove the song that's currently playing on Android devices, you can quickly get to it by tapping the title of the playlist (located in the top center of the screen). This will open the playlist and the current song will be highlighted in green. From there, you can tap the three-dot menu and select "Remove from this playlist". 

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We'll keep this idea open and if there are any updates about adding a remove song button to the menu on the 'Now Playing View' or if we have some news regarding this option on iOS devices, we'll post them here. Remember that you can still add your votes here if this is something you'd like to see in the future.

 

Thanks!

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squint
Music Fan

‎2020-10-01 12:34 PM

If the song is currently playing, on Android, on the Now Playing screen, you can tap the name of the playlist at the top of the screen, and you'll get taken to the playlist, and it'll scroll down to the song that is currently playing, and select it.

 

On iOS, this doesn't happen. All they need to do is make it work the same way on iOS.

 

Spotify's weakness is keeping all their apps on all their various platforms in sync.

 

It's the weakness of most companies, when their employees have to work together and stay in sync. Different people work on each app, I'm sure.

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llllzaaa
Visitor
2021-01-02 05:03 PM

It's amazing that Spotify team doesn't implement this. It's so simple. 

nysteve
Roadie
2021-01-04 01:57 AM

One of the oldest and most annoying deficiencies I've experience as a premium user. You should hire me as UX/UI Dev so that I can wake your team up to basic of ideas that have not been executed still. There's a difference between baseline functionality and embellishments, this is an example of the prior! 

jsmzc
Newbie
2021-01-04 02:17 AM
I have long ago cancelled my Spotify subscription because of this issue.
I've been pretty much an exclusive Pandora user since then. It certainly
does not give the granular controls or have the library that Spotify does
but at least all I have to do is give a song a simple thumbs down or skip
and it isn't played again.
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KHPhoto
Visitor
2021-01-04 02:32 AM
Go to TIDAL… it’s just like Spotify in the controls but with much better audio quality anyway.

jkwapiszeski18
Visitor
2021-01-07 03:36 AM

So is this feature ever going to be added back into the mobile version for Apple users?

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jude333
Newbie
2021-01-16 07:54 AM

I wish that there was a way to search for a song I have downloaded in all of my playlists. As it stands now I have to search in the filter bar of every playlist. This is tedious. Is there any way to select a song I have downloaded and see how many playlists it is in?

also, I wish I could easily remove a song without having to search for it. The 3 dots allow me to add to a playlist but not to remove it. 
thanks 

 

elainecristine
Casual Listener
2021-01-22 01:26 PM

This seriously not a function yet? It's very painfull search for a song in a 200+ itens playlist to delete it.

Edwin71
Music Fan
2021-01-22 05:24 PM

@elainecristine Please see this comment from squint from October last year: https://community.spotify.com/t5/Live-Ideas/Mobile-Remove-current-Song-from-Playlist/idc-p/5045053/h...

It's not our preferred solution but at least it is easier than manually searching a song in a playlist.

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Stuessi
Newbie
2021-02-01 09:51 PM

This is such a no brainer. When listening to a song in a playlist (full-screen view of the song) I should see Remove from playlist when selecting the three dots. Add to playlist is already there, even though the song already is in the playlist. Please add Remove from playlist. 

Jeevaka
Newbie
2021-02-02 09:35 PM

Lack of this feature defy reason. Also "Find in playlist" is not there anymore.

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