[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

[maxfrankel]

Sigh, another great idea marked as "not right now" years ago that seems like it will never be revisited. This would be awesome to sort, even if it's just albums listened to vs ones you want to get to or to sort albums categorically. Pleaseeee Spotify, revisit some of these "not right now" ideas. There are some seemingly easy to implement ones that would change the user experience so positively! 

[Pierrequiroule]

Upping this as I'd also like to have this feature

[beefGhost]

How it is 2025 and we don't have this feature yet is utterly absurd. It's got to be one of the most obvious feature surely.

Playlists and collections are different concepts surely??

[fredericofb]

I'm thinking of changing to Apple Music because they have this on desktop mode. I always create a year playlist, so I can have access to all "2025" albuns. If they aren't divided by album it's a **bleep** of a mess of long list display of songs. It would be so simple to add this. 

[coleseagroves]

+1

[Dominic_Falisi]

If you own physical albums, there's a magic to being able to hold your records. There's also connection you have to the music in that you can choose how your store it, what order, which albums live next to which. You can create a library of your own choosing and when you go to find an album, you know that all your jazz albums are to the left and progress through fusion, to rock, to country, to classic. 

Coming to spotify, this magic is completely lost. Albums are by default shown all in one big tab, and in order of when you most recently listened to them. When it comes time to choose an album to listen to, it is annoying because they're always jumbled up, and this means that some albums become lost in the bottom of that page, or are in a random place that means they get overlooked and forgotten about. 

Not to mention, having the opportunity to sort and customise our 'albums library' would add a new individuality to everyone's Spotify account. Not only could we compare our Spotify wrapped at the end of the year, but we could compare our libraries and which albums are on our 'top shelf' or in our rotation. Even more so, having all your albums neatly organised would boost loyalty to the app, as after you've spent the time to build your library and organise it, you wouldn't want to switch to another app.

As someone who already loves spotify, I'm really passionate about this feature, and I think it would make me and many other 'album listeners' (as opposed to people who prefer playlists/just used their liked songs list) even more attached to the app.