I can't find playlist location in my library

[zuazen]

Plan

Premium

Country

Poland

Device

Macbook Pro late 2016 / Asus

Operating System

Catalina / Windows 10

Desktop App & Web Player

My Question or Issue

Hello, 

I have tons of personal playlists in spotify (not sure about the exact number) with many folders. I noticed when I searched for one of playlists that folder with this playlist hasn't been opened as usual. What actually blocked me with adding new song to the playlist, because it's hard to update one when you don't know where to find it.

I already tried reinstallation, I checked behaviour on desktop Mac & Windows.

Steps to reproduce:

1. Have account with big number of playlists/folders.

2. Search one of playlist which is not currently visible in library.

Expected result: 

List was found and its location is shown in Library. 

Current result:

List was found but user is unable to find its Location.

My current result from search for playlist:

current version (broken)

How it was before:

previous version (perfect one)

As this is pretty important feature for me, can you let me know is this will be fixed and / or is there workaround now for finding playlists location?

Thanks

[Alex]

Hi there @zuazen,

Thanks for reaching out about this in the Community!

When you write a playlist name in the search bar it should appear on the top of your page. If that's not the case, we'd recommend running a clean reinstall of the app. Follow the exact device specific steps from this guide. This involves deleting the app cache, which can sometimes cause issues if it gets corrupted. 

Let us know how it goes. 

Cheers.

[zuazen]

Hey Alex,

thanks for quick response.

So I tried to reinstall  app again, this time following steps described in link which you posted.

The result: I still don't know where each playlist is located. That's full screenshot. I have no clue. I can't add songs to the one :< 

has anybody knows where my playlist is

Thanks,

Sylwia

[Alex]

Hi @zuazen,

Thanks for the screenshot.

Can you try to open all your Folders by clicking the little triangle icon next to each one. After that search for the playlist name in the Search bar. Once you have selected it it should appear highlighted in the list of playlists on the left. 

There isn't a quicker way to find out exactly in which folder the playlist is.

Let us know if you have more questions 🙂

[zuazen]

Hey Alex,

this is very ugly solution, and it will be very hard to perform each time.

I have nested folders meaning most of my folders contain another ones.

It might happen once I open all folders I will get lost with scrolling.

Can you just confirm if this functionality has gone forever or it will returned back soon?

As in previous version when I was searching for a playlist the playlist was highlighted in the list of playlists on the left and its location was opened .(meaning proper folder / folder path).

[Alex]

Hi @zuazen,

Thanks for the quick reply.

The new Desktop client functions like this currently. Our developers are trying to improve the Desktop experience and are gathering feedback in this New Desktop Experience Feedback thread. I'd suggest you head over there and express your concerns with the way the app functions now. This feedback will get straight to our developers. The app will change with future updates, but we have no official information on what features will remain and what will be removed.

Can't say for sure when or if this feature will be brought back to the app, but considering how awkward looking for playlists in a large collection is currently, I certainly hope so.

Hope you find this helpful.

[zuazen]

Hey Alex, 

thank you for your help.

I will report an issue to this thread posted by you.

Cheers, 

Sylwia / zuazen

[visthespoon]

thanks for raising this issue. I have the same problem, it's A MASSIVE ISSUE for me. I have hundreds of folders & subfolders. I want to add to a playlist,  I even want to move the playlist to another folder, but although I can access the playlist via Search, I can't find it to move it or add more stuff to it.

This issue has always been a problem on the mobile app, because you could never find the folder a certain playlist was in, and I hoped one day they'd fix that. Spotify has gone in the opposite and WRONG direction. there needs to be a fix or workaround for this. we NEED to be able to find where our playlists are in our file hierarchy. In ANY utility that uses a file hierarchy, there needs to be a way to quickly navigate that file hierarchy. This is basic. 

I pay Spotify £15 pcm. I expect basic functionality. Come on Spotify !

[visthespoon]

oh Wait ! I found a workaround of sorts !

so, you CAN move the playlist by dragging & Dropping from the search results to a folder of your choice on the left : 

first click on "Your Library" & then use the search box on the right to search for the playlist you want (in my screenshots I searched for "mixtape") -> when the playlist you want comes up in the main window , drag and drop it form the main screen to any folder on the left and it WILL move.. (I moved it to my April2021 folder - you can see it's not there in the first screenshot when I searched for the playlist - but you can see it in the April2021 folder in the 2nd screenshot, after I dragged it from the main screen to the folders/playlists list on the left)

Once you've moved your playlist you'll know where to find it & will be able to add songs to it 🙂

tbh, this is not a bad result ! 🙂

[zuazen]

 visthespoon - I was so blind, thank you so much! I can use spotify again ^.^

[Lucky_Carms]

Thank you for sharing your solution.  I would still love to know where the playlists I search for are located because they are in a folder that has all of the yoga classes I taught in 2019 - and it would be nice to see them all and not only the ones I remembered the names of.  I don't know if Spotify will see this but anyway - thanks for your efforts to get the issue to their attention.

[il0]

Thanks for the tip! I still see this as a bit ugly workaround, hopefully Spotify fixes the playlist search (to highlight it in the left folder list when you open it).