[Mobile] Remove current Song from Playlist

[Hansholz]

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! 

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"

[Hansholz]

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.

[zenubio]

Another quick suggestion for this might be a "Go to Song" option to find the song directly on the playlist (instead of having to scroll).  Or at least to alphabetize the playlist like you can on a desktop.

[cyclinbabs]

Good idea!

[danks]

I have been wanting a feature like this for soooooooooo long!!! As you said, it sure would be nice to know which playlist a song came from when it is in the queue so that it would be possible to "remove song from playlist" right there from the queue without having to go back to the playlist to perform that action. I'm always curating my playlists and I hate having to go back to the playlist, find the song, hit the edit button, and then finally be able to remove it. This option should be available directly from the song in the queue! C'mon Spotify developers, what does it take to add that little piece of metadata to the songs in the queue to enable this feature?

[Feddar]

An movement on this idea?  

[smh121970]

Now that I have found out how to delete a song from my playlist while listening to it on my phone, I am back to being a highly satisfied customer.  The only thing I would recommend in addition to that is adding a filtering function to make deleting your songs much easier.  It allows me to perform that filtering function on my computer but not on my phone. When you have over 1000 songs in your playlist, having a search bar within that playlist to go directly to that song to delete it would be more awesome than scrolling through hundreds of songs just to find that one song you want to delete.  But other than that, SPOTIFY YOU ARE STILL AWESOME IN MY BOOK. 

[cyclinbabs]

Can you let me know how to do the deleting?
Thanks, Barbra

[Leobyrro]

I have the latest version of the app and I can’t see the option to remove the song while is playing. 

[smh121970]

The way it works for me is the following:

1. Select your playlist
2. Once your playlist appears, you should see three dots (...) in the upper right corner.  It's a little easy to miss but it is there.
3. Tap on the three dots (...)
4. Now you have the option to select:  Download, Edit, Rename, Make Public, etc.....
5. Select Edit
6. Now you should see the songs in your playlist with a circular red icon beside each song
7. While scrolling through your songs, use that circular red icon to delete whatever songs you want
8. Select Done when you're finished.  You should see it in the upper right corner

[apertotes]

smh121970, you have not understood what we are asking for. Editing playlists has always been possible. What we want is to be able to remove a song from a playlist from the "Now playing" screen, the one that shows the album cover. When a list is very big, finding a song you want to remove is anything but convenient.

[smh121970]

Gotcha.  My mistake.  And you're right.  That would be a very convenient function.