[Your Music] Creating "Collections" of Albums

[Walrusman]

I have an idea that could make using Spotify better for people who put a lot of effort into managing their music libraries (and for everyone else as well).

Collections menu in Your Library

The idea is simple: Being able to create collections or lists of whole albums. Of course you could just add albums to regular playlists but then it just adds the songs separately, which is messy, so you can't easily see which or how many albums are there in the list or checking if there are missing songs.

You can add and remove whole albums to collections, much like songs to playlists

By having album collections we could easily see which albums are added to them and it would make it quicker to select certain albums for downloading by toggling the download button of a collection containing them. We could also re-order the list of albums quicker than re-ordering a simple playlist of consecutive albums broken down to songs.

This would also make it possible to listen to certain albums in a specific or even random order without having to add every album to the queue one by one.

You can download/un-download every album in the collection with one tap, you can also either play the albums in order or shuffle them, or even shuffle all songs within the albumsAdding or removing albums from collections

[Galixou]

Currently I have a lot of albums saved in my library but no way to sort/reorganize them as I want. I want to be able to create album folders just like for playlists.

[Rubrum]

I landed here when googling if I was crazy for wanting this feature. I've wanted it for years. I harped on it when Spotify surveyed me about new features last year. I can't believe this post has been here for like 8 years, it's disheartening. It would be amazing to build an album collection, and a great way to track albums I want to listen to later. Playlists really are a mess for this. Are there other streaming services that allow what this post suggests?

[carlosgoyeneche]

Incredible that they haven't implemented it! Its crazy, or lazy, to assume that you can organize a full albums collection with all kind of generes in just one plain folder....nuts

[ashleyandringaa]

There should be a 'collections' feature where you can group up playlists on your profile and create folders that contain multiple playlists. This feature would act similarily to Pinterest, in the sense that you can make one big folder and you can select different playlists to put inside of the folder that shows up on your profile as well. You'll additionally be able to name the folders.

[ArGii]

^ @ashleyandringaa,

What you’re describing actually exists for playlists. Unfortunately it doesn’t apply for albums (unless of course you create a playlist of just the album - but for those of us who have hundreds / thousands of favorite albums saved, it would be a nightmare to organize and redundant).

In order to utilize the folder feature for playlists, you must use the Desktop app as the feature is only viewable on the mobile app not editable. Hope that helps. Here’s a video that shows how it’s done: https://youtu.be/OpQ0bMqUD6c?si=NVBK4Pf7Ta7qxZZ1

[ajlane60]

Whoever (@AlejaR (Moderator) merged the original suggestion ("[Your Music] Creating "Collections" of Albums") with this "Collections feature" has completely missed the point of the original and needs to separate them again. The "[Your Music] Creating "Collections" of Albums" suggestion is a five plus year old thing that Spotify is for some reason completely ignoring the request of 1000's of users. This "merge" has simply muddied the waters and needs to be reversed immediately. What would be much more helpful is if the original suggestion was placed as a "Live Idea" and then ACTIONED, not lost within some other vaguely (un)related query that, as some have already pointed out, has a solution already in place. I hope this was not the intention.

[coffeecrazy98]

Moderator @AlejaR , please UNDO this merge........your merge is not what was suggested

[7Sevensevens7]

This idea would solve a lot the issues with listening to classical music on Spotify.

[carlosgoyeneche]

For sure! You could have collections of different periods, or different
instruments, or even collections of your favourite composers or
interpreters. It's really hard for me to imagine how spotify haven't
implemented this indispensable feature for real music lovers and collectors.

[carlosgoyeneche]

For sure! You could have collections of different periods, or different instruments, or even collections of your favourite composers or interpreters. It's really hard for me to imagine how spotify haven't implemented this indispensable feature for real music lovers and serious music collectors.