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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
samamthaaaaaa

why won't they add it 😭

carlosgoyeneche

I know, it`s unbelievable, I'm guessing collective company blindness may be the only answer.

LKCot

At the very least some sort of detailed explanation as to why this isn't being implemented would be appreciated. As my music collection has grown in Spotify, so has the need for this functionality. Surely it can't be that hard to implement (unless there is some really funky code in the background). It's starting to become a bit of a deal-breaker for me and I have started to look around for Spotify alternatives.

carlosgoyeneche

Couldn't agree more, an explanation would be the right thing to do, after all, WE ARE THEIR CLIENTS AND WE ARE PAYING THEM! And yeah for me it's starting to be a deal breaker too

weirdf1sh

i dont think this year's wrapped even mentioned the word album. theyre never gonna implement this😭

heikki_juntunen

I think problem is that spotify just wants to build tools for record companies. Like all the recommendation algorithms etc... I really can't remember when they introduced feature I really liked.

carlosgoyeneche

You have a very good point here, may be time to start exploring new options

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.