Add to other playlist button not saving changes

[epicsounds]

Plan: Premium 

Country: US

Device: Motorola razr 2025

Operating System: Android 

My Question or Issue:

When I click on the plus button to adjust what playlist(s) a song is saved in, I am able to complete my changes but very frequently the changes are not saved or applied to the song. This is a newer issue, now that there is no "save changes" button to click on. I have many playlists categorized by time & genre, so many of my songs go in more than one playlist, which has suddenly become an issue with this update. In addition, when I am adding a song to other playlists, I am unable to remove the song from a playlist at the same time when I used to be able to do all of this with one step. Now the only way to remove a song is to use specifically the "remove from this playlist" button. 

[richardmann]

Hello again. 

The new add to playlist method /- approach, still escapes me. The screen that pops up - to be clear here, offers me one way to select multi playlists that I'd like to add a particular Title to. This with an additional search option to find a single, already existing playlist. This though, and if here again, no apparent .. way to Save a newly selected Title, to .. either whether a "New", or already existing playlist. (.. no apparent "Done" - as with the previous approach, or "Save", button.)

[richardmann]

.. With this idea in mind, I much prefer the previous approach. ("iteration".)

[richardmann]

Hello again. 

The new add to playlist method /- approach, still escapes me. The screen that pops up - to be clear here, offers me one way to select multi playlists that I'd like to add a particular Title to. This with an additional search option to find a single, already existing playlist. This though, and if here again, no apparent .. way to Save a newly selected Title, to .. either whether a "New", or already existing playlist. (.. no apparent "Done" - as with the previous approach, or "Save", button.)

[KyleVarga]

This is an easy fix, but recently you guys changed the save feature in a way I feel negatively impacts user experience. Whereas there used to be a "save" button when adding songs to Playlist there is now just a tiny little bar which you have to pull down at the top. First of all I feel this is a lot worse because I usually have to try and pull it down multiple times, usually accidentally pulling down my phones menu in the process... it just makes such a simple feature take about 10x longer than it used to for no reason. On top of this there is now no indication whether the song has actually been saved, whereas it used to say "saved to (playlisy)". Many times since this update ive checked Playlists for songs I know I added, only for the app to have completely forgotten about them. This is beyond frustrating. At first i thought maybe I was just missing a save button somewhere, but ive checked and found no such thing. If there is one please point it out, and please make it more prominent. I'm a long-time spotify user and premium member, i love mysic and i love this app which is why I see no need for such a pointless change to unnecessarily diminish the user experience so greatly. Please bring back the old save button. Thank you.

[alvafairchild13]

Yeah this is horrible Spotify wth I have over a hundred playlists I'm not doing this 10 times 

[richardmann]

.. A with "Premium" membership, and with 300 plus playlists, I want a "Done" button. ... (Yesterday.)

[richardmann]

TWIMC, .. I apologize for the multiple - duplicate, post here above. I had had trouble determining whether or my original post attempt was actually registering.  (Nonetheless, likely an important subject and idea for investigation, I feel certainly. [ ] hope someone does.)

[Quat1e]

Since the new update a few weeks ago, when I save songs to multiple playlists, they often don’t actually save. I have to go back and check every time to make sure they’ve been added.

Also, before the update, there was a “Clear all” button to remove a song from all playlists, but now that’s been replaced with a “New playlist” option. Why do we need two “New playlist” options when adding songs to playlists?

[Astral1122]

Apparently they have fixed the issue of adding a song to multiple playlists, but now the search bar to find a specific playlist to add a song isn't working and i have to scroll and scroll to find the playlist i want... why they just don't go back to the previous setting that actually worked that had the "Done" button and everything? 

[choffman1]

Thanks for the update! I'm right there with you man. There was nothing wrong or even outdated (in a visual style sense) with the old way. These worthless changes fill me with rage. There has been nothing wrong with Spotify's stylistic choices for years, but I am absolutely convinced, on Spotify like many other apps, the programmers don't know what to do and or have no new real ideas so they have to change the UI for their own job security. Its rather easy to convince higher ups of things like this when they don't have any programming understanding/experience. Doesn't change my sheer annoyance with it though 

[Lost_in_Reverie]

Can whoever is in charge of this UI update please just swallow their pride and revert the changes? This new interface is inferior in nearly every way imaginable. The only positive it has is that you can see more playlists at one time (which is worthless if it doesn'twork properly). The final action of saving of a song is unintuitive and while they fixed not being able to back out of folders to add to others at the same time, now you can't save a song unless you back all the way out. So if you have folders in folders, this UI is a nightmare. The thing that makes me the most annoyed is that it's 10x slower than the previous interface. Previously I could click through my folders before the screen even loaded them. Now I have to wait for the whole list to duck down and pop back up every time I click a folder. It's so stupid. Any time I want to save songs to playlists now, I just wait until I can get to the desktop app so I don't have to waste hours of my life just trying to add songs to playlists.

[Astral1122]

You're absolutely right, they're probably making up issues or unnecessary updates to secure their jobs...