[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

[nspretnak]

Under Albums I only get a choice of "playlists" and downloaded. Bring back albums I have saved as a playlist. I get a bunch of suggested albums none of which I want. You have become big brother, "Spotify will decide what is best for you, not you."

[syncrosmy]

Hi there,

since I was facing similar issues, I just started to develop a browser-based app which is capable of displaying your music library (saved albums) sorted by genre and/or artist. Initially the genres from Spotify are used to cluster everything. However, you can freely add custom genres and sort everything by using drag & drop. You can also select a device to play to and start playing an album. I am looking for some people who are willing to test this app. So if you are interested, send me a PM :).

Best

Samy

[tk-420]

How can this not be in the category of "Good Idea" having 1664 votes?

[DELTANOVE]

More of ten years of development and this feature has never been implemented... Well done

[chaellaivey]

Classical is my jam. I really like listening to individual symphonies, one at a time. When I find a particular performance I like, I save it. My library ends up being up to a hundred albums long. I don't want to slam them all into a single playlist. What I'd love to be able to do is place a bunch of albums on a single "shelf" so I could click on my "Beethoven shelf," and scroll to find the 9th symphony album. That way my library would be neat and organized. 

[Teradactol]

Maybe someone over at the Spicetify discord might be willing to take a look at this if gets enough attention. Someone made a suggestion to make a custom app for this, so maybe if we upvote it enough, it might get looked at. Just go to the Spicetify discord and look for suggestion #86 in the suggestions tab. It's a very long shot, but can't hurt to try. 

[arthur2399]

Come on Spotify! This would be a massive update and the status is "not right now" since before pandemic times!! Almost reaching 2000 votes and nothing... Even the layout design of how it could be is already in the idea. 1670 album lovers are in need of this!

[carlosgoyeneche]

I don't know where Spotify is doing its improvements but this would be the
best improvement

[karlzzz]

So why exactly have we not gotten this yet? if not this exact format at least a revamp of it. your album filtering options on the app as of now are actually really bad for the standard that you as an app are supposed to hold. as of right now this 1702 likes! GIVE US THE COLLECTIONS UPDATE **bleep**!

[carlosgoyeneche]

Couldn’t agree more, it’s weird how Spotify prides itself on being professionals on music and have overlook this for so long