When you try to play a podcast that also has video on desktop, there is no option to disable it and only play audio.  This is unnecessary for me, because I do other things while listening to podcasts.  It also introduces unnecessary strain on my internet connection to stream video that I won't watch, as well as strain on my hardware trying to decode the video.  Much like the "disable canvas" option on mobile, I feel like it would be beneficial to have a "disable videos" on desktop. ... View more

Sometimes people are in a mood and time after time we thumb through songs just trying to find one that fits our particular mood and we end up spending more time skipping songs than actually listening to the song we wanted. After we can't find it, we end up frustrated and settling on just another song. In recent years, iOS and Android have incorporated biometric sensing as part of their devices. Things such as heart rate detection, facial recognition, and touchID have helped add another layer of protection to our devices, but what if they could help Spotify help their consumers find the song that is just right for them. Imagine taking a short quiz before launching the app that you provide information on your favorite genres and how you cope with different moods and then, over time when your mobile device or watch detect an increase in body temperature and an increase in your heart rate because you are anxious that Spotify plays a song that works towards getting you out of that anxious state and continues to play songs geared towards getting you to a more positive mentality. Maybe you are just waking up; iOS and Android have also integrated measurements of sleep patterns into their software. Spotify can play off of this to help with music selection because honestly, some people like to get their mornings going with a cup of coffee and heavy metal and others prefer water and jazz music.  The purpose is for Spotify to be able to integrate their music streaming platform with what smartphone technology already presents us with to provide a more personal and meaningful experience for its consumers. ... View more

I used to be able to access all of my deleted playlists through the "Recover Playlist" page and now I can only see them if they've been deleted within the past 30 days. I was recently looking for a playlist that I had had for three years and had deleted a year ago but I wanted to get back into. With the option to get it back, I have lost it forever and that honestly sucks. I say all playlists should show up in the recover playlist page with the option to delete them forever if you want. ... View more

Could Spotify solve the problem of no video display for JRE on PS4?? Many people use PS4 as their only in-house media player. This is for Netflix, YT and Spotify. Considering JRE's migration to Spotify next week, it will be crucial to all these users to be able to display the video content of the podcast on PlayStation as well.. ... View more

By navigating to “Browse” -> “Genres & Moods," Spotify users can find playlists created by Spotify that represent many different genres of music. One genre included here is “Metal,” for which one can browse Spotify’s official playlists representing several metal subgenres; however, doom metal currently does not have its own playlist here. An official Spotify doom metal playlist could both introduce users to this unique subgenre, as well as facilitate further music discoveries by doom metal fans who use Spotify. ... View more

Bring back iMessage extension for Spotify. It was a feature heavily used by many of us and it is very ungrateful of you removing this while many ios users keep paying for a premium plan around the world.  I don't think it's such a big deal to keep supporting a small app for iMessage where you can share music with friends. ... View more

Whichever track is playing... Display that track! You would think that when people got together to design a system for playing music that, after the requirement to play music, the next requirement would be to display the music that was currently being played. But no! I'm relatively new to Spotify and it turns out after some fumbling through the interface, that it is not possible to display the track which is playing. I've even seen a similar idea rejected. (Did no one else really like that idea?)  In that case the idea was for the playlist to automatically scroll. That would have been nice, but actually all I want is a single screen which shows what track is playing. Currently when I hear a song I like, I have to open my phone or browser, and scroll the playlist to find the song. To do that I visually inspect the dozens of track to identify which track has small vertical bars to the left of the name and not a small triangle. Sometimes I missed small vertical bars and have to start again. Sometimes the track ends before I find it so I have to play the previous track.  I know there is a area at the bottom of the navigation bar on the left of the browser interface which does actually display the information I need. However the navigation bar cannot be expanded sufficiently to display the text without truncating it. Really I just want that information, but moved into the main display area of the screen. There seem to be different views available for that area. I would like a view which displays the current track information there. Nice and simple. I can then just have that open and refer to it whenever a track I like is played to immediately identify the track.   Many thanks Spotify Team David ... View more

Please note: This idea only applies to Spotify client version 0.8.8+   I will admit this is partly my idea, but it has also been pointed out many times on the "Horrible Update" summarized nicely by Premify here.   I would really like the ability to view all of my playlist followers and I am sure I am not the only one. What I am suggesting is a simple system, where you could press on the "# Followers" section of the playlist Window:     I would suggest it would either give you a drop down of all the followers or even better (in my opinion), a redirect to another page with all the followers on it similar to the Following/Followers tab in the Follow page of the client.   Please add your kudos and any comments here! Peter ... View more

Videos are a great media, however they should not be included in curated playlists. It is distracting to listeners that drive with Spotify, or put it on in the background at work. Also, are these videos downloaded when users make a playlist available offline? If yes, this may take up too much space. If no, this will eat data without an option to avoid them. ... View more

Can a search bar please be added on top of the list of playlists that appears when you're adding a song to a playlist? It's really impractical having to scroll through all of your playlists to add one song, especially  if you have al lot of them.  Thanks ... View more

I see that the new Google Clock app has a Spotify feature (alarm), and I thinks that’s super cool but, I have an iPhone therefore I can't use Google Clock so if you can also try to impliment this feature on IOS devices (IPhone,IPad,etc) than that would be great. Thank You ... View more

A serious Spotify problem, shared with other services, is how poorly duplicate versions of songs and albums are managed. There are many different (re)releases of what is apparently the same album. Also, the same song can appear in many different albums/compilations. Spotify largely fails to understand all these different versions of albums and songs as being duplicates. Meaning that:   Existing features do not work reliably Liking songs Disliking / Blocking songs Liking albums Exploring the music catalog Song popularity indicators Skipping duplicates when adding songs to playlists Proposed features will not work reliably Tagging songs and creating dynamic playlists Song play counts Alternate modes for Discover Weekly, Radios and other discovery features Show and play only not-played songs Show and play only not-liked songs Comparing libraries between friends More detailed problem descriptions: Songs I have liked are often not liked within any album with the same name on the artist page, nor within the list of top songs on the artist, nor radios I play, nor my own playlists. Making me add it again and again ending up with tons of duplicate liked songs. Albums I have liked are often not liked on the artist page (Same exact album name) Albums and Album-Songs that I liked on the Artist page are no longer liked when I look at the Artist page a(day, week, month, year) later because the album displayed on the Artist page has been replaced by a new version.   The same song turns up again and again in top songs for an artist Duplicates of disliked/blocked songs keep playing, turning disliking/blocking songs into a game of whack-a-mole. Often the songs in top songs, or radios/playlists, for an artist are not from any of the album versions visible on the artist, but rather links to some some sort of zombie album release not accessible in any way except through the link from the song. So I like a number of top songs or radio songs for an artist and minutes later view the same songs in an album with the same name as the song I liked but this one is not liked. Avoiding duplicates in playlists does not work reliably. So I have playlists full of duplicates. The above problems mean I end up with a ton of duplicates in my liked songs. And thus, when I add songs to playlists by selecting all liked songs from an album/artist or similar the playlist ends up with duplicate songs Spotify badly needs to implement a strategy for handling this, such as making one version per album and song preferred and making sure that their interface consistently use these preferred versions everywhere by default, automatically migrating all a users Liked songs and playlist songs to this version whenever it changes. The user should only need to see this horrible mess if they want some very specific version of an album/song. Then some way of opening the doors to this pandora's box can be provided. Like a "See all releases" link when you open the preferred version of an album or song. Combined, perhaps, with the option to lock liked songs and playlist songs to this specific version.   However, it is a huge burden for a company to manage this data and the choices made may be controversial. This is likely to be why it is still not fixed even though doubtlessly Spotify is well aware of just how big a problem this is.   For a single company managing this data is prohibitively expensive, for the community of tens of millions of users doing so is a trivially small amount of effort. So here's my suggested solution to all these problems:   Crowdsource it. Let the users mark different versions of albums and songs as duplicates of each other and possibly vote for which one should be the preferred version. The user would simply paste in the links to other songs or albums into a "Report duplicate" function on a song or album. This would remove the immense burden of managing this data from Spotify employees and, if voting is implemented, makes it very hard for users to complain about which version is preferred. It would be a democratic process among all the users.   I think that solving this problem first could be a huge competitive advantage. I have already posted this as a suggestion to Tidal as well. Please get moving on this Spotify if you think it a good idea, or you might miss the boat. ... View more

Hi! Make possible to listen podcasts for Russian users of Spotify. ... View more

There should be a way for me to control my history of songs played. Sometimes I accidentally play things I don't want to hear or I try listening to songs I don't like. I should be able to remove them from my history so that my stats are accurate for song and music suggestions.    Also....My account was hacked and someone played music I would never listen to. I can't delete those songs from my history. I can only remove them from my recently played section. I DON'T LIKE THAT!   I tried to ask a customer service agent to delete the songs, but they said it couldn't be done. Wow! Move to the 21st century, Spotify, and give your customers some more control. Sheesh! ... View more

According to this https://community.spotify.com/t5/Desktop-Mac/No-Dislike-Button-in-Daily-Mix/td-p/4840532 and this https://community.spotify.com/t5/Desktop-Windows/Discovering-New-Music-useless-no-DISLIKE-button/td-p/4796808   Dislike button helps people to directly manipulate their preferences. Please return this useful feature. ... View more

PREFACE: With the release of iOS 12, iPhone users can now utilize Shortcuts to make the most of their daily routines by automating tasks and steps in both native and third party apps. Currently, the extent to which Spotify can be utilized via Shortcuts is to simply Open App.   IDEA: I wish to see more options and a wider scope of utility of Spotify in Shortcuts to the capacity of   playing specific playlists when I leave my home, and   adding the current song to a new custom playlist that I can name, or even   copying a song link to a tweet. I know the Shortcut app would be capable of handling a workflow along those lines but it seems it would require a bit more generosity   from the Spotify app.   MODERATORS: Please note that this is NOT the same   idea requested here considering that post is requesting for "Siri Integration" not "Shortcut Support". In addition, this idea is   no longer an announcement   as   prefaced here   and is now a public feature in iOS 12 as of Monday (9/17).   ... View more

I'd love to send a “share” request to another user to listen to the same song at the same time. The user that sends the request won't be able to listen to the song until the other person accepts or declines it, and you'll have the option to comment on the tune you're listening to so the other users on the party know what makes that song special. The request will include the message “I'd like you to listen to this with me”. I think that could be a very attractive feature nowadays.  ... View more

Bring back the offline devices list on the account page. it makes it easier to see what d ... View more

As a paying Spotify premium customer, I need a shuffle algorithm different from the current, non-random shuffle that seems to favor "popular" songs, as has been pointed out by other customers who experimented with what is actually happening (see links to other posts below). Currently there are only two possible ways to listen to music in playlists, either in the listed order, or shuffled by an algorithm that makes listeners miss out on about 20% to 30% of the songs in the list, favoring the ones that we already listened to hundreds or thousands of times. I want to be able to choose another algorithm that does exactly the opposite: play songs in a pseudo-random order but leaving out the ones that already have been played frequently, and instead focusing on songs seldom listened to, in order to make me rediscover new songs and inspirations! This is even more important when listening to playlists made by other people, to help me discover new music. The new algorithm could be called something like "serendipity shuffle" or "discover mode". This could be an option to activate in the user's settings, so the existing popularity shuffle would stay the default option. In case a serendipity shuffle is too hard for you to implement, a simple randomized shuffle function would also be much better than the current one. This has already been pointed out in other posts in this forum. See other posts in this community: https://community.spotify.com/t5/Ongoing-Issues/Shuffle-Is-Only-Going-Through-A-Handful-Of-Songs/idc-p/4557475 https://community.spotify.com/t5/Ongoing-Issues/Please-stop-marking-shuffle-complaints-as-quot-not-an-issue-quot/idi-p/1772030   ... View more