Retrieve Playlists' Folders

[mklschreiber]

Currently there is no information published about the folder in which the playlist is located. So the third party can just show all playlists in a flat list. It would be a great improvement if we could show the same structure like the official spotify application does.

For example:

Playlist Folder A ....Playlist Folder A-a ........Playlist Test ....Playlist Folder A-b ........Playlist Test2 Playlist Folder B ....Playlist Test3

[jmilloy]

I just wanted to second this enhancement request. The task I am most interested in is reordering playlists in a folder, and neither the folder structure nor (I believe) playlist order are accessible through the web api.

[thelinmichael]

@jmilloy, the order of the playlists is maintained and should be the same as in the Spotify applications.

[jmilloy]

@thelinmichael Okay. How can I change the order of the playlists? Right now the best I can do is delete the playlists and create them again (from last to first).

Note that I'm not talking about the track order in a particular playlist.

[thelinmichael]

@jmilloy, the Web API unfortunately doesn't support changing the orders of the playlists, so the only workaround would be to do what you're doing.

[triplef]

+1

A lot of our users are using folders to organize their (extensive) Spotify libraries/playlists, and not having folder support in our app makes for an inferior and confusing experience as compared to the official Spotify apps.

For us it would be sufficient to have a "parent playlist" property that we can use to build the tree of playlists.

[ghost]

I completely agree with @triplef

We need folders. This includes use of the API in the Sonos app. Currently my 800+ folders are a long list and it lags.

[ghost]

I should also add @thelinmichael I've created 2 open forum posts on @spotify and @sonos

https://en.community.sonos.com/music-services-and-sources-228994/spotify-folders-gone-ios-v54-and-v55-6732153

https://community.spotify.com/t5/Help-Other-Partners-Windows/Sonos-Controller-v5-5-no-more-folders/m-p/1219871

[ghost]

@mkl87 @thelinmichael @jmilloy @triplef I feel strongly about not having folders anymore. So I created this: http://bringbackfolders.com/

Share if you agree please!

[thelinmichael]

Hey @whyhellothere! There's an Idea post on the Spotify Community site that'll serve as a better place to discuss folders in the Sonos app. Go to it here.

[rawdlite]

+1 for folders support in the API.

Are there any plans on supporting this?

[ghost]

@rawdlite - nope! great, huh? also, the Spotify forums are complete shit. I DM'd them directly and they said they do not reply on their forums until it hits a certain number of "kudos". There are about 3 threads already, one of which has about 1600.

Bottom line: if you want an answer, the best bet is by asking Sonos (they reply in their forums) or by DM'ing either company.

As far as I know both know its an issue, but haven't many any public statements with plans for change.

[fredriklaason]

Folders please :+1:

[willdunning]

:+1: Folder support please.

[varazir]

+1 on folders

[bmoers]

+1 please extend the folder API

[bart-eijk]

+1. I would love to see the Spotify Web API support folders.

[mattbroussard]

+1

[Gregg8]

Seriously, no folders? I have tons of them. It's the only way to make any sense of them all. What a mess they become as a single list! This is a crucial feature as far as I (and many others) am concerned. It's such a nice API, but so brain dead in this area. Why oh why oh why?

[jayhubau]

+1 for folders support in the API.

[willhutch]

+1 for folders support as well - why is this missing??

[hbraasch]

Its been more than a year since the start of this problem. What the heck! Again... Why is this still missing?

[hbraasch]

A bit more...

I’ve been following this issue (Retrieve Playlists' Folders) on the GitHub issue tracker for a while and seriously need some assistance.

Anyone, please provide me with an email address or phone number of the developers on Spotify side (in some country) so I can get BEHIND the reason why this feature cannot be implemented in due time. The whole SONOS community (I'm just a user) have been screaming for it, but I do not think SONOS is going about it the right way (or not reporting sufficiently).

Spotify... please give us a some proper feedback. I’m a programmer myself and would like to explain to my peers in a language they can understand. Otherwise… I cannot see any reason why the API still lacks this interface, other than that Spotify INTENTIONALLY wants to cripple all other developers of client apps.

And please do NOT refer me to your other support webpages, these are useless and are easily ignored.

[tulsileathers]

I want to second this. I'm interested in developing an app to organize playlists intelligently by genre and need folders to do so. Right now it looks like I'll be stuck using libspotify to do this. Hopefully whatever api replaces libspotify (spotify api help pages say they're replacing it in 2017) keeps the folder management.

[MusicPartner]

I second this also. We are a professional background Music provider and are creating new services using Spotify (and more business for Spotify) so this really needs to get sorted!

[klihelp]

Folders in API please :-)

[pafodie]

+1 Spotify, I beg you!

[avinassh]

Spotify, please add folders support?

[kgowru]

+1 spotify, need this!

[tulsileathers]

@hbraasch Did you ever get a hold of the spotify devs?

[seahorsepip]

Another +1 for the month May.

[xavierhb]

+1

[klihelp]

+1 for June

[fosron]

+1

[klihelp]

Museum of +1s

[akej74]

Could we please get an official comment from Spotify on this topic?

[hughrawlinson]

Hi @akej74 and everyone - we've been aware of this feature request for some time, and we're keeping it open so that developers can continue to express their interest. We've chosen to focus on some more heavily requested features, like #12, #15, and #20, and have addressed them with our new Spotify Connect APIs, and recently played tracks endpoint. We understand that a playlist folder API would be very useful to a rather small group of users and developers that use Spotify's playlist folder feature, but we don't have any related announcements to make in the near future.

[eyanson]

+1

[gabriel-roth]

Strongly urge you to implement folder support in the web API. The kind of serious users most likely to use third-party apps are also most likely to want to organize their music.

I'm not surprised that only a few users make use of Spotify's playlist folder feature. Maybe that's because it's not very well implemented in the official apps?

[moritzsternemann]

I still need this for a great app I‘m working on...

Oh and btw, I‘d love to work on this as an intern at Spotify ;)

[arirawr]

@moritzsternemann - https://www.spotifyjobs.com/students/ 🙊

[OliverPearmain]

I'm desperate for this also.

1+

[cacothi]

Hi guys, any review on this item?

This feature was raised in 2015 and nothing has happened till now? I couldn't find anything on Spotify API and also on Playlist Object that would say the parent folder for that playlist:

https://developer.spotify.com/web-api/object-model/#playlist-object-full

[arirawr]

Hi @cacothi!

This issue, as with all of our long open issues, is an open feature request. An issue being open is not an indication that we're working on the feature, only that we're interested in seeing the demand, and compelling example use cases that we could enable. The current state is that we're aware that it's a feature that has a lot of demand, but for a variety of reasons have no immediate plans to release it.

We keep feature requests open so that we can continue to gauge demand for a feature over time, and regularly prioritize highly demanded features - see #302 #57 #260, and many others for examples of this.

[cathrinevaage]

+1

Full folder api support is something I need for my app and would like to see implemented.

[cacothi]

Thanks for the return @arirawr

[rvf148]

+1 folders please

[mjh421]

Another request for folder support please

[soheilpro]

+1

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[klihelp]

+2