[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

[rickyr922]

Yes please, same for artists. I want to be able to sort my artists/album folder as I would do with a physical CD library

[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.

[JJLRobert]

I’ve been waiting for this feature to be added to Spotify for years. I’ve seen dozens if not hundreds of requests for identical “album folder” systems on the Spotify Community forum, going as far back as 2012. As Spotify has refused to add this system for over a decade now, I’ve all but lost hope in ever seeing it implemented. As far as I know, no other major music streaming services offer this feature either. While I love Spotify and have used it for years, I can tell you this: ANY service that decides to implement this feature can count on my business.  

[shyigu]

Instead of albums being sort of loosely collected in your library, there should be a way to group them in folders or categories, so that you can more easily find them based on your own personal criteria

[FrusLer]

It should be, as in Playlists, but , apparently, that functionality, which is , I guess in terms of code, almost the same... is missing, and , we a re a bunch of people that would appreciate it so much, it could save our distracted minds a lot.

So, please, product designers, UXers, UI people, devs... help us!!!!

[carlosgoyeneche]

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