Sort by Genre

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So basically Spotify knows what genres you listen to right? It usually tells you when you get your Spotify Wrapped at the end of the year. Not only that by you can sort by genre in your liked songs playlist too. 

I think it would be helpful if Spotify would give you the option to sort by genre by giving you "genres" to choose from that fit what you have in your library; like the liked songs playlist. 

A example of this would be clicking the albums tag then getting a UI element that shows the different genres to choose. 

[Luan]

Updated on 2023-09-28

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[rswh66]

I think this is similar to what was requested here         [Playlists] More Playlist Sorting Options/Columns               
To which Spotify commented in 202 that they had no plans to do this 😞

[はやし]

I want a feature that lets me sort the albums saved in my library by genre.

[Lichixe]

I "like" songs if ever I want to listen to it again and add it to a playlist. I have more than a thousand liked songs, due to this, making playlists in different moods is hard because I have to scroll and listen to every song that would match the playlist I want to make. I'd like to suggest adding a sort option by genre. My reason for suggesting this is because I'm the type of person who listens to whatever sounds good to me, so I might've listened to a lot of genres.

[Maltabes]

Dear Spotify team
I love your service. But I have a gripe with it.
It's almost perfect. Spotify is like a shelf full of worlds.
But the sorting capabilities is not quite what it could be.
Finding an album to listen to is a delicate process.
You put your headphones on. And the world disappears.
This is a moment of profound vulnerability. Yet as a person exists in this sort of limbo: this space between worlds, the experience of actually choosing what to listen to can make or break their actual listening experience. Your listening experience is impeccable. However, i find the experience of choosing what song to play to be a bit hectic. Here is what I mean:

My inner peace is in the hands of your application. But if don't know what I want to listen to already, then I need to find it. And finding it, at the moment, is a bit taxing. Admittedly this is also my fault for not curating my albums better. But as well as this, my search for the album that I want is based on the name of the artist or the date that the album was added to my collection. These are facts that I should not be expected to have memorised as a listener- but I should know the feeling of what I want to listen to.

I propose that you introduce sorting by genre.
And instead of sorting by dates or alphabetically, the little signifier on the side could say what the section's genre is. This could also give way to custom sorting: where someone can curate their own "shelf"

The addition of this would also, of course, allow you to create incredible ads: likening the experience of choosing an album on the app to the experience of going through your shelf.

A woman sits at the bus, and puts on her headphones
Meanwhile the same woman goes into hed private music room, and shuts the door: shutting out the world with it.
As she browses her carefully curated shelf of music, our woman on the bus is doing the same on the app. Cementing Spotify as the leading app of choice, because not only do they have the best listening experience: not only do they love music, but they respect it as much as that woman who has carefully curated her shelf.

Why am I proposing this given you already have playlists? Because the magic of the album should not be lost. Artists should not be dissuaded from curating an album because the listeners will just put it in a playlist anyway- since their music app of choice does not have a good enough shelving system. And listeners (like me) should love every second of using the app: not just listening- but choosing as well.

I also think if you make a change towards upholding the holistic beauty of the album it will show that Spotify does not only respect the listening experience but, again, that they respect music, as well as those who listen to it.

This will be clunky, and iterative- but the end product should be something akin to looking at your shelf of vinyls. You've sorted them all based on their genre. Do I want to listen to rock music? Maybe it's a jazz evening. Or a classical Sunday afternoon.

Or perhaps your listening spans continents. Do I want to listen to Irish folk? American country? Is it another Armenian Duduk night? No. I know. Let's treat my wife to some traditional Greek music to remind her of home.

I write this email with so much love for your app, and such a reverence to music. But mostly, I write it because I want this to come true. I hope you consider my suggestion.

Our phones are quickly becoming our entire world. And music is a part of that world we go to to escape everything else. I've been trying to put my world in better order recently. Both in reality, but my digital world as well. So- having spoken so much of worlds, it would mean the world if you could help me build my shelf.

Thank you kindly,
Ioannis Maltabes