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If any Spotify devs are here, please let me explore and add songs, artists and albums to my library without “hearting” it.

I often just want to follow up later by “adding to my library,” and it feels weird to “LOVE” it before ever hearing it. I really feel pain when I hear something terrible that I’ve already “liked” and consider the impacts to my algorithm.

Please distinguish between “like” and “save.”

A simple “plus sign” or really any other symbol that signifies “adding to a collection” without “liking” connotations (stars are out too).

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I'm confused. I thought I missed something in the article. Why are we talking about Spotify in this thread? I'm all for your suggestions, I'm just confused how we got here. Haha. What did I miss?

This post is about how someone implemented the thing the author wrote about. So this comment-author hopes someone at Spotify will implement the thing he is now writing about in his comment.

While we have Spotify's ear: why is the default behavior to clear my queue if I play another song? It's especially an issue on mobile, where viewing a playlist or album means that an errant tap almost anywhere on the screen undoes all of my queueing so far. Just a toast with an 'Undo' button whenever the queue is erased would be plenty.

They used to have a separate star button in addition to the like button that was exactly that, but they took it out years ago. It would also add the song to a separate list in your library called "starred songs".

When they axed the feature, all the started songs got automatically added to a new playlist called "Star" that I still use today as a workaround, I just add new songs I enjoyed to it to keep track of them, and just throw it on shuffle when I'm not in the mood for anything specific.

What's wrong with a playlist: Saved for later?

Now that you opened this forum for Spotify feedback: If I do "like/heart" a few songs and then go to the Radio based on one of them, please don't show the songs I already liked in that Radio. I mean, I already "liked/saved" them, why are they appearing in my discovery phase?

Disagree on that - Radio is not just for discovery but also for easy random playlist creation.

That's one of their best features!! I'm using discovery bcs I want to listen to tracks similar to the one i use as a basis. If they mix some of my liked tracks in there that are similar too (which they usually are), that makes it even more enjoyable. Idk about you, but I use Spotify to listen to good music.

I'd like to have a different tiny change in the "Song Radio" feature: if you start playing that playlist, skip the song it's based on if it was recently played or is currently playing. It's mildly annoying when you switch to that feature after stumbling across an interesting track and the first thing you hear is the same track again.

Valid. One way around it would be to create a "Follow Up" or "In The Queue" playlist that you add it to. Obviously not as easy as just a + button though.

You can swipe songs to the side to add them as next up

I like how Instagram has solved this. You can like a post but you can also save it for later viewing or showing to someone else.

Spotify should totally have a save to library function but also a heart function that trains their personalized mixes for me. I’ve just stopped looking at my library for my music catalog. Every album I like goes into a “favorite albums” folder. It shooldn’t have to be this way.

And I would wish so much for a button "play next", that makes a song play directly after the current song (and then proceed with whatever was scheduled before).

I often browse spotify while listening. If I find something I haven't heard for a long time, I often want to directly listen to it, but not cut of the current track.

Another thing that bothers me, in Spotify and pretty much everything else: you can't add playlists to other playlists. Like union directories. The most important thing is that it's a link, so every list updates whenever I update the included one.

If there's a program with this type of functionality, lmk.

I don't really understand how that is useful but if you need to do it manually you can just shift click all the songs and add them all to a playlist on the desktop app

Yeah, I get why it wouldn't be. I just have a peculiar way to organize my music.

I know I can do that, it just doesn't sync when I change another list, which breaks everything.

You can use the Spotify Smart Playlists feature to do this. I used to do something similar before giving up. It's clunky, but it works. You basically set it to pull all new songs from the feeder playlists into the accumulation playlists, every night.

I can't find an official feature, you mean this?

http://smarterplaylists.playlistmachinery.com/

Oof! They used to have this for Songs, then they removed the feature, and I lost the major way I used Spotify. I used it to make sure I could listen to music offline while traveling and it was an infuriating few flights before I could download everything again.

This kinda sounds like a use case for a playlist to me.

I think their idea is that you don't have/shouldn't want a personal library because everything on Spotify is your library.

If there is a feature I want to see on Spotify is a easier way to see my friends playlists.

I'd be happy with just being able to consistently access my own playlists and currently playing queue on Android. I swear it's a coin flip whether the button appears or not.

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