So my first guess is that Spotify's hesitation to implement this idea is economic. Sure its a tiny fraction of a cent, but it adds up. However, it occurs to me that anything that affects the order of which song plays can affect revenue because Spotify pays someone when a song gets played and they don't pay the same amount of $ for every song. I can't speak to Spotify's data and research, focus groups and surveys, or about their business strategy. I'm wondering how many artists are dying inside when their specially arranged songs are cut up because someone shuffled their playlist?

So I would say that playing tracks that are meant to be together really helps the artists because their work is rendered in the correct way that they intended. Our overall short- and long-term business strategy.Feedback in the Community and other support channels.Information from research testing, focus groups, and surveys.Data and other information we've collected.Now we have to see what we need to do to get it moving forward from 'Not Right Now' to 'Under Consideration'.Īgain, from the rules above, Spotify says that they use these criteria: We also see that we need 100 votes per year to keep it alive (check again!). So I re-submitted this idea in 2015 and since then you wonderful people have given it over 880 votes! Thank you!įrom the rules, we see that we needed to have over 500 votes to keep the topic alive in monthly discussions (check!). There were another 18 ideas then that all linked to the one above (see attached). That idea had gotten 138 likes in 2015 and as of January 2020 has gotten another 116 for a total of 255. As I searched for this feature, I saw that idea was marked inactive and decided to open it again. You get the feeling of being violated it is a terrible experience. As I listened to all the songs I've 'liked' with shuffle, the one thing that kept coming into my mind was the terrible feeling you get when a song that is meant to follow another is not played. Coincidentally, about the same time, I signed up for Spotify premium. This idea was actually started by in 2012:īut in 2015 it was closed as not having enough votes. Mock-up of how linking/pairing a song might work. Wouldn't it be greatif you could 'pair'/'link'/'lock' or 'chain' tracks together in a playlist? Then even if you shuffle-played, certain songs would always play together. Ability to link together Tracks in Pla.

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