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UPDATE - May 5th, 2023
Hey folks,
We appreciate the feedback you've provided us with regarding the new desktop UI; it's being taken into account!
We're chiming in to redirect you to the current main thread regarding the latest updates to the desktop app and we'll be closing new comments here as it is an outdated thread 🙂
Thanks!
UPDATE - April 16th, 2021
Hey folks,
We've tried to cover most of the frequently asked questions concerning the new update in this Spotify Answer - Make sure to check it out!
We'll continue to go through all your posts in this blog, so if you have any other questions besides the ones in the FAQ, feel free to add them in a comment below.
Thanks,
The Community Moderator Team
UPDATE - April 8th, 2021
Hi Everyone,
Yesterday we published a blog post on our engineering blog which goes into more details on the new UI, the reasons behind it and the process of building it. If you'd like to read a few more details like that you can check it out here.
I'd also like to mention a few things coming in upcoming versions of Desktop
Thanks,
Dan
ORIGINAL POST -----
Hi everyone
Dan here from the Desktop team again. I wanted to make another post to once again thank you all for your continued feedback, and also give a little more detail about what we’re doing from here on in.
In short, the new user interface is the future of the Spotify Desktop client, and over the coming weeks we’ll roll out the new UI to all Desktop users. Many of you will have noticed already, but we’ve based the new experience on the more modern and scalable Web Player codebase, and in doing so made both versions more aligned and easier to use than ever before.
Why are we making this change?
We believe in the future of the Desktop platform and want to make sure it can still serve the needs of our users now and into the future.
The existing Desktop UI codebase became increasingly hard to maintain as time went on, and you may have noticed a growing gap between the Desktop and Mobile apps in some cases. For those of you interested in the technical details, a blog post on the engineering blog is coming soon. The short story, however, is that our desire to continue pushing Desktop forward and bringing new features to it became incompatible with the reality of maintaining the legacy experience.
Meanwhile, we had a Web Player serving similar user needs, but built in a much more modern and scalable way — with a more cohesive Spotify “look & feel”. We therefore resolved to use the Web Player UI code as the basis for both Web and Desktop in the future, and have been spending quite some bringing the Desktop-class features that you’ve come to expect to this shared platform. You’ve had a sneak peek of this as we’ve been testing and building things out, so once again I’d like to thank you for both being a part of it and giving great feedback on this thread that has definitely helped us improve.
Benefits of this approach
Firstly, I’d like to say that this really is a new beginning for the Desktop app. Long-term Desktop users will start to notice more rapid iteration on the app than they’ve seen in the past.
I’d like to call out some of the things in the new Desktop, and also give you a little taste of what’s to come.
Design - We’ve focused on consistency, are using more color to enhance the experience where appropriate, and are making better use of cover art and album images in the app. We're also better aligned to other platforms, put an increased focus on accessibility, interactions and animations, and have tightened up our design language, so it’s more in line with what users have come to expect from Spotify.
Functionality - We’ve brought the functionality that users expect from Desktop, like sorting/filtering, drag & drop, and advanced settings and options, whilst improving areas like playlist creation and curation, profile pages, and more. In many cases these improvements have landed in the Web Player, so the work here has benefited our combined users on both platforms.
Tip! You’ll also find new keyboard shortcuts for many tasks (press ctrl+? to see them) which makes certain actions much faster and easier for any user.
We are also aware that there are a few aspects raised in the community that haven't been fully addressed as part of this update, but items like the Search Bar and discography on artist pages have ultimately been brought closer in line with other Spotify applications. That said, we will continue to iterate on the experience across both platforms moving forward.
The future of Desktop
As mentioned above, this change to the Desktop UI gives us the ability to move faster in bringing you new improvements, features and functionality — so you can expect to see continued improvements to the client in the weeks and months to come.
Once again, I’d like to thank you all for helping us shape the Desktop App over the past year on behalf of everyone here at Spotify, and please do continue to post your feedback and use our Ideas section here in the Community to tell us what you’d like to see and why.
Thanks again,
Dan
Hi everyone at Spotify! I have noticed the new UI you did! I'm still getting used to it haha
By the way, I have noticed that on my desktop, which has an ultrawide monitor, you changed something that was previously present. It makes using the desktop app quite awkward in such a wide display. I made a community post with more info about it plus some screenshots. https://community.spotify.com/t5/Desktop-Windows/Spotify-Redesign-is-broken-in-ultrawide-monitors/m-...
If you could fix just this one little thing, I'd be happy!
When I click on the back on a page of an artist, it goes back to the very beginning of the whole artist list. WHY???? In the latest interface after pushing the back, it was immediately on the place, where I left, where the artist, for example in the end of the list. Such an **bleep** update.
And why the **bleep** cannot see the WHOLE discography, when I click to "see discography"? I understand, I can listen only to the Singles and EPs, or to the albums. But WHY cannot see ALL of the songs, from ALL of the albums/singles/EPs anymore? Why isn't there an option for that? In the latest interface I can did that.
Why did you made these absolutely illogical, and pointless "updates"? These are so clear expectations from a music stream service.
This new UI is awful, jesus christ please revert back to the old one.
I had old UI until literally today. Might have been the region i'm in didn't get the rollout as fast, i dunno. Opening the program and seeing new cleaner UI was a very much "yay" moment, as i never read any news about these things - i use program to comfortably listen to music. Mood soured quickly when i tried to search for something and later plummeted when i tried to listen to specific artists' tracks. I know this was mentioned before (for 5+ months since new UI was tested, if googling is to be believed) and now fixes for these new fresh issues (features?) are "in consideration". But i'm sitting here alone, fuming, screaming at the wall and just being properly sad about inability to reason with whoever can fix this directly, so i thought i'd write it out too. Don't need old UI back, just the old features. I know it's greed that makes companies do this. Must help artist exposure to send angry people clicking through bunch of albums they have no interest in or similar convoluted marketing logic. But sir, Spotify, please, throw me a bone, do me a solid, make me whole again.
We need a vaccine for this UI variant!
Spotify is one of the few places I have found solace during the COVID-19 pandemic. It has been like being able to drop in on an old friend, anytime, anywhere in the midst of the lockdowns. Simple, predictable, and user friendly; no hassles, no headaches. Everything worked just fine and it was a source of musical joy.
Personally, I didn't think it was possible to make the pandemic any worse. But you, Spotify, have achieved that. What a disgrace.