So, I have this track that I love called "Get Thy Bearings" from Donovan. It's a great song. I made a radio station from the track, and it came out killer. I have thoroughly enjoyed it for many months.
And then, tragedy struck: one time while listening to it on the phone app recently, I tapped the three dots at the top and the menu appeared. I accidentally hit "Hide Song" with my big, clumsy thumb when I was going to tap something else, and it subsequently hid the song. Like, permanently. This is not a feature that one can undo! (And for the record, this feature is not available on the desktop app—just the phone app.)
I can still find the song in Spotify and play it on it's own, but I can't play it in it's very own radio station. This is a tragedy because it's a very good song. (I encourage everyone to go listen to it right now, in fact. It's stellar.) I have tried everything to fix this—deleting the playlist, re-creating it, deleting the app, redownloading, calling customer support, etc—and it simply seems unfixable.
Now, it seems that I have no choice but to sacrifice my entire account, just so I can listen to this song in its own radio playlist again. (TBH, worth it. It's that good.)
So, my idea is this: I think the Spotify Coding Overlords™ that are in control of how the Spotify apps work should simply add a "Unhide Song" feature ASAP to counteract this silly, unfixable pitfall.
Seems like this should be easy enough to do, as the code for "Hide Song" already exists. I am no coding expert, but my Spidey-senses tell me that half of the code for my idea is already written in that existing code, so this seems like it should be super easy. Further, it seems like adding this feature ASAP would help thousands of other listeners solve this very same problem, as I can't be the only one with big, clumsy thumbs on small screens. (I mean, I guess its possible, but highly unlikely.)
Perhaps my tragic error will end up helping thousands of people I will never meet.