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[Your Music] Creating "Collections" of Albums

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 LibraryCollections 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 playlistsYou 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 albumsYou 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 collectionsAdding or removing albums from collections

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Updated on 2018-10-03

Hey folks,



 

Thanks for coming to the Community, and adding your vote to this idea!



 

We're marking this idea as 'Not Right Now' for the time being, as this isn't something we have any immediate plans to implement. We appreciate you sharing your thoughts, and we'll continue to pass these along to the right teams.

 

If we do have any new info to share, rest assured we'll check back in here with a new status.

 



Thanks.

Comments
Ko20

@BaronVonTook I think it still sucks that you have to make an individual playlist for each album though

 

BaronVonTook

Hi @Ko20, not quite sure what you mean.  I didn't have to create playlists of each album, but I may be misunderstanding. I made the folder and then dragged albums into it. That gave me a folder full of the albums for whatever group I'd decided to make. Apologies if I'm getting your point wrong.

LCCastel

Yes please!!!  I almost only listen to music by albums and would love this feature

nhoofd

@BaronVonTook When you drag an album into a playlist folder, Spotify does turn the album into a playlist though. Might not be a huge deal, but it still feels kind of different; IMO it would be great to have a dedicated feature for this. Actually, I guess not much would need to change about the current playlist folders to realize the idea in this post, it would just have to support albums as well.

Ko20

@BaronVonTook I don't know about you but I could only add albums if I converted them into playlists. I tried dragging albums into the folder on my computer and it didn't work. I think nhoofd is having the same problem as me.

ArGii

Absolutely 100% this! 

 

As more people have had Spotify longer and longer, their lists and favorites are going to grow, and limited sorting options are going to get out of control. This would solve a TON of user's issues, create an even better listening experience, and could even have listeners coming back more often than not. 

madhatpoet
Yeah, that the issue I originally was posting about. It’s weird that there isn’t just a separate way to organize albums beyond creating playlists.
ajlane60

@BaronVonTook ok. I can see what you are saying there and I have been able to produce something like that. It needed a right click in the side bar rather than using the "+" button (which would also be useful and clearer to many - I am not a frequent flyer with Spotify), but it is not really going to fulfil the OP unless I am missing something. What would be good is if you could play on through all of your albums in that collection. You just set it off and it plays all in the order you set them. It seems to stop at the end of the one you have requested. (I have it stop at the end of a playlist rather than play their suggestions, but don't think that would be the cause). Would be a nice touch also to be able to rearrange the album icons as it seems to only be able to be reorginised via the side bar. That is a small point but worth noting. The continuous play is a BIG factor on the other hand. Do you have another work around to get it to play though, perhaps?

tk-420

So...how many votes do we need for this to be implemented?

pipob
Let’s post this in our social media plataforma so we can make it happen.
It is your music experience what needs to get better ✌🏽