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I think it would be really helpful if we could make playlist folders more like an index and less like a box to put certain things in - at the moment you can only put a playlist in one folder and then it's stuck there (apparently you can remove them but it's not worked for me on desktop), but I would like to be able to add a playlist to multiple folders.
This would let me order my music according to genre as well as things like mood (chill, upbeat, loud etc). I could also have large overarching folders like instrumental with all my insrumental playlists in it, but still have those playlists in other more specific folders like Classical or LoFi - both instrumental but both very different, which at the moment poses the problem of which folder I should put them in as I can only choose one (sometimes you want music with no lyrics but different genres).

 

I've made over 150 playlists and this number is only likely to go up, so it would be so much easier to find the music I want if I could go to specific folders for different things. This would also prevent accidentally making the same sort of playlist twice, which would save space.

Updated on 2023-05-24

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Yordan
Status changed to: New Suggestion

Updated on 2023-05-24

Hello and thanks for submitting your idea to the Idea Exchange!

 

We've gone ahead and marked this as a new suggestion. Spotify Staff will look into this idea once it reaches the necessary amount of votes.

 

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MaximusicExplorer

I love this idea, but formulated this way I don't find it attractive since putting something in several folders is counterintuitive and never seen in any other apps.

Which is why I encourage you to rename it to "Use tags instead of folders". In Gmail for example, you can sort mails and put them in an arborescence of tags. It's very similar to the folders in other mail clients, except it has all the good properties you mentioned, plus it will be intuitive for most people that a playlist can have multiple tags.

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And I think renaming this idea to "Use tags instead of folders" would also attract more traffic and make the idea more likely to be implemented!