Clicking on album art no longer jumps to the current playlist.

[newdietzrising]

Clicking on the album art for the currently playing song no longer jumps to that song's position in the current playlist. Instead, it takes me to the album page associate with that track. Except it doesn't even take me to the album page as if I had clicked on the track title. Instead, it takes me to the very bottom of the album page. This is not useful in any way, so I'm going to give spotify the benefit of the doubt and assume this is a bug and not a newly introduced feature.

If this is a new feature for some reason, well, I guess we'll burn that bridge when we come to it.

Plan

Premium

Country

US

Device

Desktop

Operating System

Windows

[SamHamwich]

Nope. Bring it back. You've removed a feature that we like and use regularly in favour of something we could already do. At least make "show song in playlist" an option on the three dots in the now playing view

[StThrivin]

We're not on the mobile app though?

If we wanted things to be like the mobile app, we'd use the mobile app.

This makes desktop usage harder.

[tomriddle]

Day 2 of using Spotify Windows desktop app with this new "feature", and I realize how bad this actually is. You have to think twice before clicking somewhere else and leaving the current playlist because getting back there to the currently playing song is so annoying now.
Hey Spotify people, do you tell us paying customers to go f*** ourselves or does our opinion matter for anything?? Remove this stupid change ASAP, please!!!

[JefV]

In previous versions of the desktop app, when clicking on the artwork of the playing track, one could directly jump to the location of the playing track in a playlist. This really helps, for instance, when one wants to add a song at this location in a playlist containing hundreds of songs.

Unfortunately, in the newest version apparently this function is no longer supported and instead of jumping to the location in a playlist, the location of the song in its album is shown. But this was already possible by clicking on the song's title.

I would really appreciate it if the previous function comes back!

Kind regards

[Plombom]

This is really devastating for me and my use of your service. I have hundreds of songs in playlists and if I listen on shuffle and I hear a song I wanna remove I have to scroll thoroughly for minutes:S I update this page daily to see if you've come up with a solution. I know I'm a nerd but I use this feature daily. I love to create playlists but it's much more difficult and time consuming without the feature. Could you please make a keyboard shortcut? Anything? 

[Plombom]

+ 1 

[Clauz]

I got it, you must click the playlist name in the upper right side of screen (above the "Now Playing" column) to jump to the currently playing track! 😉 I don't get the point of this change, but that's it! 😄

[bolfh]

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@Clauz wrote:

I got it, you must click the playlist name in the upper right side of screen (above the "Now Playing" column) to jump to the currently playing track! 😉 I don't get the point of this change, but that's it! 😄

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Many thanks to pointing this out!

To Spotify developers: I don't like the "Now Playing" panel. I prefer the wide playlist panel with album name, date added. Not good to be forced to use the "now playing" panel to be able to jump to the currently playing song!

Please provide a way to jump to the currently playing song in the playlist without the now playing panel!

[mackarias]

+1 to stop removing functionality, Spotify. I've paid you thousands of $$$ over the years, have some respect for your user base

[Nevibya]

Can Spotify finally hire some UX designers, not just people who make everything worse on purpose?
With the money we are all paying you, there's no way you can't afford hiring people who spare at least one thought for the user experience. 

[vizual_assassin]

It clears things up but does not make it acceptable. Clicking on the source at the top of the now playing bar takes me to the playlist but does not bring me back to where that song is in the playlist itself like clicking on the album art would do thus making this alternative useless especially if that source playlist has hundreds or thousands of songs

[EinfachToll]

Yes, it jumps to the song's position in the playlist, but it's a bit weird: the first click on the playlist's name jumps to the song position, but if you click again, it jumps to the top of the current playlist. So, if you're stuck, select a random other playlist or album from the left pane and then click the playlist name in the top right once. It's stupid, but at least it works.

[newdietzrising]

I just noticed this as well. After being told by various online shills, "Hey it's ok, you can still click on the little art..." this feels like a serious insult to injury.

As I've said elsewhere in these miserable "community forums," they have neutered their own app and removed most of the features that I actually used on the desktop app. Note, that's not hyperbole; with the recent changes, I have to completely unlearn and relearn the way I've been using spotify premium on desktop for literally years. And if I'm going to be strong-armed into that sort of "compromise," I may as well just learn a new platform entirely.

I can no longer find any internal justification for continuing to pay for spotify.

[AbsolutelyNoFB]

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@Nevibya wrote:

Can Spotify finally hire some UX designers, not just people who make everything worse on purpose?
With the money we are all paying you, there's no way you can't afford hiring people who spare at least one thought for the user experience. 

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Unfortunately, this sort of STUPID stuff is what you get from so-called "UX designers". They are typically the dumbest, least well adjusted, people involved in making a product, right there with the so-called "Product Managers". With "designers", you get "design for the sake of design", "change, because I like to hurt people", "I like it, who cares about paying customers", etc.

Many Windows users of Spotify consider the early versions of the client -- MADE BY ENGINEERS -- to be the best. They were fast and capable, especially the early clients that weren't glorified web-in-a-box fake desktop apps. The latest Windows client are slow and clunky, the uncrowned "King of Lag" on the Windows desktop.

As the talented engineers have long left Spotify, all we are left with a bunch of "designers" who don't care how people have used the desktop application for YEARS. They don't care about screwing up your screen layout just to go to the playlist/album that's currently playing. Heaven forbid the desktop client works for desktop users. No, no, no. The designers say the DESKTOP app has to work for MOBILE users. A lot of people consider this the epitome of stupidity, of the petty tyranny of "designers" over people.

[Nevibya]

I'm pretty sure this change came from financial department - if they make user playlists clunky and unusable, people will just give up and listen to Spotify's Smart shuffle / automatic playlists / radios they are constantly trying to force us to use.
Probably because in these Spotify-made playlists, Spotify can push the songs and artists they want onto millions of users. I'd wager there is a huge amount of money involved in a power like that. 

Any actual UX designer would think about the end user experience, which obviously wasn't the case in last couple of updates. 

[aviwad2]

Why does Spotify behave like they are some indie and quirky company? No. These products are used by millions. This is so so embarrassing. What a stupid decision. Stop destroying features. Worst company. Can't manage a single stable product. 

[AbsolutelyNoFB]

@Nevibya wrote:

I'm pretty sure this change came from financial department - if they make user playlists clunky and unusable, people will just give up and listen to Spotify's Smart shuffle / automatic playlists / radios they are constantly trying to force us to use. Probably because in these Spotify-made playlists, Spotify can push the songs and artists they want onto millions of users. I'd wager there is a huge amount of money involved in a power like that. 

I agree with you, 100%. Spotify today reflects a financialized application.

It wasn't that long ago that Spotify changed "Discover Weekly" to "Here's a Bunch of Crappy Stuff We Are Getting Paid to Push On People". These days, maybe 5% of Discover Weekly is relevant to my musical tastes.

@Nevibya wrote:

Any actual UX designer would think about the end user experience, which obviously wasn't the case in last couple of updates.

It's getting harder and harder to find UX that is designed for end users. It's not just Spotify, but Apple Music, YouTube Music, Amazon Music, etc. They are all fairly bad from the end user perspective.

If the EU/USA/etc. regulators could find the will to make laws that required easy, direct, and private account portability between music providers, perhaps there would be some better things for end users. Or it could end up like cellular providers in the US, e.g., uniformly bad across all the vendors.

[AbsolutelyNoFB]

Until there is way for customers to easily and privately move their account to a different music provider, nothing will change. The Spotify application of today reflects the financialization of the user experience. Features are there to provide profits for Spotify, not utility for customers.

Spotify views themselves like a big US cable company. They hold near absolute power over their customers, make a lot of money, and end up on "most hated" lists year after year. To the owners of Spotify, end users are just a means to an end.

[Matsonson]

As has already been pointed out, there has been a way to access the Now Playing view. What is missing, and what people need, is a quick to locate the playing song in your playlist. Now it takes three clicks when it used to one. I count closing the Now Playing view as a required step since I'm 90% on the time the Spotify is on my pivoted screen.
Even better if you can treat Desktop app as a Desktop app instead of a mobile app. Most of us have a cursor and a keyboard at hand. Please stop removing functionality people actually use, thanks. 

[phil-baines]

Okay - so where are we meant to click to take us back to whatever playlist is currently playing? I can't find any way to do this with one click.