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

[cellfreak]

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[cellfreak]

Lol. Its almost like looking for an easter egg in Call of Duty 😄

[Fantazmythe]

Plan

Premium

Country

Australia

Device

PC - Custom Build

Operating System

Windows 10

My Question or Issue

When isued to click on the cover art in the player it would default to opening the playlist in full. now it opens some terrible side panel and i cant seem to get rid of this fucntion.

Exibit one is what im clicking, exibit 2 is what it opens and exibit 3 is what i want it to do.

I have already gone to settings>preferences>display>uncheck show now-playing to no success. 

[calamar-87]

Spotify launched 1.2.35.663.gb699649e version and this issue persists, when are you going to fix it?

[shadowsareblack]

I now have 3 videos on this thread

I am also including my Spotify Mobile that is lagging and also doesnt jump to song.

8.9.30.433
https://youtu.be/unN-7LxJHbY 

[shadowsareblack]

The "Solution" doesn't actually work

https://youtu.be/_R2OZhdyVPQ
In my video I search a song in my liked playlist and go to the currently playing. It no longer jumps to location of the song I'm listening to

Which really sucks since my playlists are huge, every single one of them.
If I cant search for the song and find where it is in the playlist I cant play songs around it (I cant remember the names of 4,000 songs and when they were added to the playlist)

I literally have to scroll to the date of where I added it which is ridiculous, why remove a working feature?
Was the point for me to get frustrated with the app and not use it?

Ive had Spotify for over 7 years, Ive never had a problem until now.
Windows 10 with a Ryzen 7950x 16 Core (I don't think its my computer)
Spotify for Windows (64 bit)
1.2.34.783.g923721d9

[shadowsareblack]

https://youtu.be/PNCAeSl5ky8?si=J-nioHuWqFWgGKX0 

I use the Mobile app and this does not work at all.

Works with playlists of 40 songs, not 600 to 4000.

People with 40 songs wouldn't use this feature anyway, why did you remove it????

IS THERE A WAY I CAN INSTALL A PREVIOUS BUILD OF SPOTIFY THIS IS A VERY NECESSARY FEATURE FOR ME?

[rossisdead]

The interesting part is that, at least on android, the "now playing" view doesn't give you any way to get back to the playlist that you're listening to. Tapping the "Playing from Playlist" section only minimizes the view. The three dots doesn't have a "Go to Playlist" option. Does anyone even test this software with real users?

[rossisdead]

It used to be that you would hit the playback bar at the bottom, which would full screen it and let you tap the "Playing from Playlist" section, which would then take you to the playlist being played. This no longer happens. Now it just minimizes the playback section again. There's nothing in the three dots menu for this either. Do I seriously now have to go back to the playlists view and dig around to find the playlist and then find the currently playing song?

Plan

Premium

Country

USA

Device

Pixel 7

Operating System

Android 14

[rossisdead]

Also, this goes for software as a whole, can we stop trying to "align" desktop UX with mobile UX? They're vastly different devices, with the giant screensize being the main difference between the two. What makes sense for interacting on a 6 inch screen doesn't always make sense for interacting with a mouse on a 24" screen. Just because it might lead to less confusion for the really braindead users who can't figure things out doesn't mean it makes for good UX for anyone.

[AbsolutelyNoFB]

I concur 100% with the sorry state of UX. A company will say they are trying to "align" desktop UX with mobile UX. But what does this really mean? I've come to see it can mean many things:

• "all our desktop developers left for other companies. there is no one left to maintain their code."
• "management decided to put as little money into the desktop as possible"
• "management doesn't want to pay for desktop developers, just web developers"
• "we no longer have the technical competency to develop for the desktop"
• "management wants to turn an end-user driven experience into more of a dead television-like experience"
• "management is betting heavily on the dead internet theory as the future of all applications"

All of these things can be true to some extent. None of which bode well for customers. At the end of the day, some of us will stay and others will pack up their playlists and go somewhere else, where they are treated better. One can only hope that the EU will continue to make moving to different providers easier for people.

[Yordan]

Hi there @rossisdead,

Could you share a short screen recording which captures this behavior in action, along with the exact version of Spotify you're running? That way, we can get a clear view of what's happening on your end.

If you haven't already, try logging out and signing back in to your account - this will force a resync of the app that may help here.

Cheers 🤘

[Fantazmythe]

stop it, no one asked for this.

Its bad an you should feel bad.

I would not have an issue if it was optional. dont force me to use it im a premium customer and have been since 2016 and i expect to be able to set up the UI the way "I" like it. 

[cour10e22]

Classic case of a “solution” looking for a problem to solve. Surprise! It was working perfectly as it was before.

[Fantazmythe]

100% this ^

[shelaffs]

Just updated my desktop app to discover this. Please change this back. We already have the "now playing" button on the right side, we don't need that function duplicated by the album art on the left. I have hundreds of playlists with thousands of tracks in them that I'm constantly editing. This feature is essential and Spotify took a simple and elegant feature and made it unnecessarily complicated. Desktop users are not looking for a mobile experience - we are looking for a full experience that we have selected Spotify as a service for. It would be appreciated if Spotify respected that.

[Cainos]

Stupid behaviour on Spotify's behalf to remove such a useful feature. Why would we want to go to the now playing when the little arrow on the album art already does that. PLEASE FIX THIS

[mykala]

Hate this change! Please switch it back.

[emphax]

Dude... this is seriously **bleep** up user experience.... Both Desktop and Mobile shouldn't have 100% consistent behaviour....there are platform guidelines for a reason...And now with this "update" a core experience feature (I've been a user since beta ) is taken away and just assumed that people liked it... For the love of god please reverse back to the previous ( preferred ) behavior 

[glock63]

thx  for fix one click  jumping to the current song in playlist.