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Your Sound Capsule: Following your listening stats

You probably already know Spotify launches every year, Spotify Wrapped, which is a rewind of your listening stats. It presents each user their listening stats for that year, including the most listened-to artists and songs, for example. It's really l...

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Watch and Listen: Introducing music videos on Spotify

Spotify knows that the listening experience is a way to connect artists with fans on many levels. But what if we could enhance these connections with a different perspective? With this in mind, Spotify is introducing a new and powerful way to listen ...

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Spotify Takes Listening With Friends to Another Level with Jam

Spotify is introducing a more fun, intuitive, and collaborative social listening experience with Jam. Whether you’re together or apart, joining a Jam with your loved ones is now simpler than ever by tapping phones, scanning a QR code, or sharing a li...

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  • Kenny142
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Superuser Contribution Spotify-curated playlists changing unexpectedly

PlanPremiumCountryUKDevice(iPhone XR, MacBook Air, iPad mini)Operating System(iOS/iPad OS 17, MacOS Sonoma)My Question or IssueI have noticed recently that a number of playlists curated by Spotify change their contents from day to day (or even from h...

  • Casual Listener
  • Plan Premium Country UK Device (iPhone XR, MacBook Air, iPad mini) Operating System (iOS/iPad OS 17, MacOS Sonoma) My Question or Issue I have noticed recently that a number of playlists c...
  • Ivelina
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Superuser Contribution [Playlists] Select/pin desired genre/mood filters in liked songs

So you have done an amazing feature release which is to allow filtering your liked songs based on genre and mood. AMAZING! GREAT IDEA AND AWESOME IMPLEMENTATION. Loved it. Kudos to the team. With this feature I have found that I am a big fan of Deep ...

  • Casual Listener
  • So you have done an amazing feature release which is to allow filtering your liked songs based on genre and mood. AMAZING! GREAT IDEA AND AWESOME IMPLEMENTATION. Loved it. Kudos to the team.   ...
  • aszr
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Superuser Contribution Deprecating Preview clips

Hi everyone, The Song Previews of playlists, albums, artist, track pages and Liked Songs were recently deprecated. Preview clips will still be available on any assisted curation and the Add songs feature under Liked Songs and playlists. Your construc...

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  • Hi everyone, The Song Previews of playlists, albums, artist, track pages and Liked Songs were recently deprecated. Preview clips will still be available on any assisted curation and the A...
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Superuser Contribution [Playlists] Subcategories within playlists

Within a larger playlist, having both the main playlist that will play all of the songs at random, but also having sub playlists, similar to the subcategories within one's Liked Songs, except one can create the subcategories themselves. Similar to Pi...

  • Newbie
  • Within a larger playlist, having both the main playlist that will play all of the songs at random, but also having sub playlists, similar to the subcategories within one's Liked Songs, except one c...
  • jcrosby
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Superuser Contribution Play songs from newest to oldest (not sort, play)

For as long as I can remember, Spotify cannot fix one thing that makes absolutely no sense. If I don’t select shuffled play, the playlist keeps playing from the oldest song on my playlist. I mean, how? What is the purpose of adding songs to a playlis...

  • Music Fan
  • For as long as I can remember, Spotify cannot fix one thing that makes absolutely no sense. If I don’t select shuffled play, the playlist keeps playing from the oldest song on my playlist. I mean, ho...
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Shuffle Multiple Playlists?

Would love to see a feature where multiple playlists could be shuffled together for a longer-play mix. Please?

  • Casual Listener
  • Would love to see a feature where multiple playlists could be shuffled together for a longer-play mix. Please?
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Solved!!Superuser Contribution [Desktop][Playlists] I want to be able to reset ALL Spotify playlists

I recently had a party for my Mexican friends. I spent many days listening to a lot of Mexican and other Latin music. I put together some excellent playlists that everybody loved. But now Discover Weekly and Release Radar have predominantly Mexican/L...

  • Music Fan
  • I recently had a party for my Mexican friends. I spent many days listening to a lot of Mexican and other Latin music. I put together some excellent playlists that everybody loved. But now Discover W...
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Solved!!Superuser Contribution On Repeat playlist not updating

PlanPremiumCountryUnited KingdomDevice(Samsung Galaxy 9, Windows 10 PC, Macbook Pro 2017)Operating System( Android Pie, Windows 10, macOS Catalina) My Question or IssueThe songs on my on repeat playlist have not changed for several months, even thoug...

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  • Plan Premium Country United Kingdom Device (Samsung Galaxy 9, Windows 10 PC, Macbook Pro 2017) Operating System ( Android Pie, Windows 10, macOS Catalina)   My Question or Issue The so...
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Superuser Contribution [Desktop][Playlists] Allow users other than the owner of a collaborative playlist to remove songs

There seems to have been a recent update that removed the ability for users other than the owner on a collaborative playlist to remove songs they did not add. I'm not sure if this is a bug or a change to the permissioning, but I don't see a way to tu...

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  • There seems to have been a recent update that removed the ability for users other than the owner on a collaborative playlist to remove songs they did not add. I'm not sure if this is a bug or a chang...
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Superuser Contribution [API][Playlists] Allow users to add tracks to collaborative playlists they don't own

The /playlists/{playlist_id}/tracks API endpoint currently returns a 403 when attempting to add tracks to playlists the authenticated OAUTH user does not own. This is not intuitive since collaborative playlists can be edited in the desktop/mobile app...

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  • The /playlists/{playlist_id}/tracks API endpoint currently returns a 403 when attempting to add tracks to playlists the authenticated OAUTH user does not own.   This is not intuitive since c...
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Superuser Contribution Can no longer remove or hide songs from Discover Weekly

PlanPremiumCountryCanadaDevice Operating SystemAndroid, Web, Desktop My Question or IssueI can no longer remove or hide songs in my Discover Weekly. This is a pretty serious irritation, particularly since Spotify has decided that I like bad anime mus...

  • Casual Listener
  • Plan Premium Country Canada Device   Operating System Android, Web, Desktop   My Question or Issue I can no longer remove or hide songs in my Discover Weekly. This is a pretty ser...
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Superuser Contribution [Desktop][Playlists] Categories for Playlists

I, personally, have so many playlists - some of them pertain to similar moods, some do not. It would be amazing to have an option to categorize playlists - so if I wanted to listen to my study playlists, I could click on the category I labeled as "st...

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  • I, personally, have so many playlists - some of them pertain to similar moods, some do not. It would be amazing to have an option to categorize playlists - so if I wanted to listen to my study playlists...
  • maxineeeee
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Solved!!Superuser Contribution Random person added songs to playlist, can I mass delete new songs

My partner and I have shared a playlist for nearly a year that we put songs in that we both like. We probably had up to 200 songs in the playlist... until today. Some random account added 11,000 songs to our playlist. To be fair, the playlist was pub...

  • Casual Listener
  • ...ongs to our playlist. To be fair, the playlist was public, but we named it something unique enough to us that we assumed no one would find it and mess with it. Is there a way I can go in and mass d...
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Superuser Contribution [Playlists] Block artist or song for premium subscribers

As a premium subscriber of Spotify, I am extremely frustrated that I do not have the option to block artists or specific songs from playing in my mix. It's understandable that the free version won't have this feature but premium subscribers should be...

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  • As a premium subscriber of Spotify, I am extremely frustrated that I do not have the option to block artists or specific songs from playing in my mix. It's understandable that the free version won't ...
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Solved!! Playlist tree view is gone

PlanPremiumCountry DevicePCOperating SystemWindows 10 My Question or IssueOn Spotify Desktop I had a neat folder/tree view of all my playlists in the sidebar. I could collapse and uncollapse everything at once, but the new UI now is some sort of hier...

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  • Plan Premium Country   Device PC Operating System Windows 10   My Question or Issue On Spotify Desktop I had a neat folder/tree view of all my playlists in the sidebar. I could c...
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Solved!!Superuser Contribution [Android][Playlists] Sort playlists in custom order on Android app

EDIT: Idea has become deprecated, requested feature still exists. See comment for details.Since I do not know how to close an idea without deleting it (and thus making the solution inaccessible to others with the same problem) I will leave it open fo...

  • Music Fan
  • ...o others with the same problem) I will leave it open for the mods to decide what to do with it.   The issue: Since the last update, the perviously available option to sort playlists on the A...
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Unable to remove Playlists I created from Folders back to main/root Library

Issue seems to be occurring on all devices I use (M1 Macbook pro, iPhone 13, older Macbook pro 2012). I haphazardly created a folder and accidentally drug some playlists into it. Now, when I try and remove the playlists from the folder, they won't le...

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  • Issue seems to be occurring on all devices I use (M1 Macbook pro, iPhone 13, older Macbook pro 2012). I haphazardly created a folder and accidentally drug some playlists into it. Now, when I try a...
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Superuser Contribution [Playlists] Release Radar for Artists I Follow Only (no additional recommended music)

Please allow us a playlist feed for new releases from only the "Artists I follow." We already have a Weekly Discovery feed for recommended artists, which includes new releases. Can we please have one new release feed just for those Artists we follow?

  • Music Fan
  • Please allow us a playlist feed for new releases from only the "Artists I follow."   We already have a Weekly Discovery feed for recommended artists, which includes new releases.   Can ...
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Is there a limit to the amount of playlists someone can save?

I noticed that whenever I try to save a playlist to my library, I get an error message. I tried several methods to bypass this (using the browser and app, and the only one that worked was removing other playlists from my library. Saving songs and alb...

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  • ...emoving other playlists from my library. Saving songs and albums works perfectly, so I was wondering if there's some sort of limit to the amount of playlists someone can save. If there is, what's the l...
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Solved!!Superuser Contribution Why does a 10000 songs in a playlist limit exist?

At first, sorry for bad grammar etc.Why do we have a 10000 song limit in playlists? Sometimes I want to play my enmtire library on shuffle, so I crated a private playlist with all the songs in my library (which is pretty big). Today I wanted to add s...

  • Visitor
  • At first, sorry for bad grammar etc. Why do we have a 10000 song limit in playlists? Sometimes I want to play my enmtire library on shuffle, so I crated a private playlist with all the songs in my l...
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