Release Radar

[lauber_andy]

What I want from a release radar playlist:

1. Only releases from the last week from artists I follow

2. All releases from the last week from all artists I follow

At least once a day, songs drop off and new ones are added. What's bad in this case is the date added for the new songs shows the same date as the ones that were originally added on Friday. If a new song is added on Monday, the date added says 3 days ago. This makes it very difficult to know which songs on the playlist are new.

Another problem is the playlist does not include new releases from all the artists I follow. Every week new music from at least a few of my followed artists is not included on the release radar playlist.

Finally, my release radar contains more than just the most recent releases. The playlist always contains several dozen songs that were released weeks or months prior, and which I have already listened to.

If anyone else is annoyed by this, the workaround I have come up with is to dump the entire release radar into another playlist. That way I can see at a glance if something on release radar already exists in the other playlist, and I can know to skip it.

[AlejaR]

Hey there @lauber_andy,

Thanks for posting in the Community and welcome.

We really appreciate the time you took to let us know about this. We know you’d like to make this as an opportunity for Spotify to become an incredible app. 

Another user had similar feedback, so they posted this idea about it:

• [Discover] New Releases Section for Followed Artists INSTEAD of Release Radar Playlist

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