[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

[carlosgoyeneche]

Agreed, people who take their favorite artists seriously, like to hear their full albums and also like to have their music collections well organized. Unbelievable that this hasn't been implemented yet.

[syncrosmy]

Maybe you guys are interested in using an app which allows you to sort your library in a more album-centered manner: https://github.com/goforthanddie/librify 

This app is still in development mode, which means that I have to add users manually to the backend in Spotify in order to make it work. So let me know if you are interested. I just need the mail address of your account to make that work.

Best

Samy

[Joerg-w]

I don’t get why no mayor music streaming app is offering this feature. A year ago I tried the main music providers (maybe 5-6 apps) and none satisfied me. 

Spotify, this could be a feature strongly pulling music enthusiasts to your service. It can’t be so hard to implement so I guess it’s against someone’s philosophy in the circle of the decision makers. Overthink it.

[emily-46]

This would be so helpful!!

Currently, when I find new artists that I want to explore, or if an artist I like drops something new, I download the album or single to listen to it later.

It doesn't need to be downloaded, but this is how I isolate the new music that I want to listen to. If I only like the album or single, it just puts it into the music library, but I need the system to separate these items so I can find them easily and know which I want to explore.

If we could add albums to a folder/collection from our phones, or if there was a separate 'Listen Later' section, I could add these new albums and singles to these instead. This would be a preferable alternative to downloading them, because it takes up so much space on my phone! Spotify is the biggest app on my phone and my phone is so slow as a result!

[carlosgoyeneche]

Still amazing me how they're not doing it right now. Obviously their head doesn't know much about music listening and music collections, can't find any other explanation

[doctoraction]

This is a key thing that would go a long way to making Spotify a much better music experience.

I would estimate that only half the time I have the urge to listen to a specific artist, album or song.

The remaining time is something like "I fancy some piano jazz, or power metal, or 80s pop" and at that point, I want to look for all albums I've saved in that genre.

I want to choose an album of piano jazz that I specifically like from a selection of albums I've already saved of that type. I just haven't decided which album that is yet. This is just like I used to organise music at home on CD racks in different sections.

I'm not as much of a playlist guy, I prefer to hear more of one artist at a time. Spotify has genre-based playlists, but that's not what I want. 

It's possible that they see collections of albums as a competitor to their curated lists and that's why they don't do it. I can't see it being very technically complex.

[Adyzek]

This would be so helpful! Not being able to sort albums into folders sucks big time when you have bigger library!

[carlosgoyeneche]

My thoughts exactly! Sometimes you don't have anything in mind but want to browse into a genere in your collection to check on what would sooth at that moment. I hadn't though of what you say of it being a competition between the music they want you to suck up and albums in your collections that you care for and want to listen again, but you have a big point there, I hope it isn't the case. I also, like you think that it wouldn't be so complex to implement and it would make A LOT of people happy.

[carlosgoyeneche]

Does Spotify even check on this or are we only  talking to ourselves like dummies? Because this sure have take way to much time to implement, in fact, freaking decades!! Somebody do something already!

[farfarfunk]

Pleeease 😊