'Save for later' feature

[probablygoodideas]

 I really hope this idea isn't anywhere else, if so, I apologize. If you're reading this, I bet you'll like this.

Many, Many times I have come across a playlist that I want to try out or a friend sends me an album or a song I haven’t heard, but I don’t have time to listen to it or I’m listening to something else at the moment. However, I tend to forget about newly discovered music like this that I want to listen to unless I save it to my library, but I would prefer to not have those tracks and playlists taking up space there.

The feature I’m proposing would be something like a separate tab in My Library, something akin to the ‘watchlist’ feature found on many streaming platforms, where you could save songs, albums, or playlists for later and easily find them when you want to try them out, but then they aren’t clogging up your library. Boom, you don’t have to worry about forgetting it and your space is more optimized. Does that sound like a good idea?

[Lyubka]

Updated on 2023-11-02

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[tpvip]

It would also be helpful that once you listen to it once it then disappears from that section, so you can make your decision on whether or not to save it to library as u listen to it.

[Ad-Williams]

I was thinking of this same idea, but coming at it from a different angle. My idea is to have a folder system within 'your library'. So within your library you could get a folder for favourite albums, a folder for albums you don't know if you like yet (like your suggestion) and other possibilities if folders are customisable. At a glance this may sound like playlists, but I still like listening to albums all the way through, so I wouldn't want to throw them all in one playlist. 

[Guiseppe74]

Hey..

You could simply create a playlist, name it "Save for later", (unshare it if that's what you want) and.. there you go.. You have your solution... no?

[Ad-Williams]

Well, not exactly. What I want is the ability to keep albums separate. Not to bundle them all in to one playlist. It's also about having a place to save the albums you've been going back to again and again for years. After w certain point it's hard to instantly recall everything you like listening to (the reason I've started buying vinyl again really, so I can go to a shelf and see my favourites).

[_frame]

Huge yes to this idea. For the spotify team...this also represents a super easy opportunity to get the user re-engaged with Spotify via a Push Notification: "Don't forget to listen to X album in your Listen Later feed!"

[avery_bw]

Spotify needs this!! My library is so full of albums and playlists I’m saving for later, and it’s extremely cluttered. I know many Spotify users that experience the same thing.

It could be its own section/tab in the library sidebar and similar to podcasts “your saved episodes” playlist. 

[brianelete]

good idea, i have a playlist called temp (i see that Guiseppe said the same, just different named playlist) where i put my currently obsessed songs and also ones i just want to listen to later so i don't forget, but i see that this is not exactly what you want

[alyssacampharris]

it should disappear from there if you have liked the song

[Youlean]

Just wanted to add that the feature ad-william is talking about is already on the desktop version. It's so useful, I highly recommended!