[Mobile] Remove current Song from Playlist
Status: Not Right Now
Submitted by Hansholz on ‎2012-02-21 01:07 PM
This is a usability improvement for the Mobile devices. Sometimes I want to remove songs from a playlist. This is currently quite a long task to perform on the mobile device.
I first have to select the right playlist.
Then I have to locate the song, which is not listed alphabetically. They are listed in the order I built the playlist with the oldest first and newest last.Some of my playlists have up to 900 songs in them and scrolling slowly can be difficult and timeconsuming.
Then click on the "pencil" icon and delete the track I don't want.
I think it would be a better user experience if we could delete songs as easy as it is to add them to a playlist.
So here's a suggestion for the mobile app, look there's even a space for it on the info page!
UPDATE 3 June 2017
I have been contacted by user eviljojo22 who has developed a Plugin that creates a playlist named "Remove from Spotify" and every 45 minutes minutes it deletes every song in it and also in every playlist in which that same song appears (which may not be what you want). However, this is an option that may help you before Spotify gets round to providing this very simple function. Good luck (and Thank you EvilJojo22)
Connect on https://spotify-playlist.eivo.fr
UPDATE 7 February 2019
I have been contacted by user bamboony who has developed an android app that might solve the problem in the short term:
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=org.bamboomy.delete.deletespotifytrack
UPDATE 15 February 2022
They delivered! This feature now exists. Click the three dots while playing a track and select the option "Remove from this Playlist"
If you'd like to remove the song that's currently playing on Android devices, you can quickly get to it by tapping the title of the playlist (located in the top center of the screen). This will open the playlist and the current song will be highlighted in green. From there, you can tap the three-dot menu and select "Remove from this playlist".
We'll keep this idea open and if there are any updates about adding a remove song button to the menu on the 'Now Playing View' or if we have some news regarding this option on iOS devices, we'll post them here. Remember that you can still add your votes here if this is something you'd like to see in the future.
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WishWeHadThis
‎2020-10-01 12:34
If the song is currently playing, on Android, on the Now Playing screen, you can tap the name of the playlist at the top of the screen, and you'll get taken to the playlist, and it'll scroll down to the song that is currently playing, and select it.
On iOS, this doesn't happen. All they need to do is make it work the same way on iOS.
Spotify's weakness is keeping all their apps on all their various platforms in sync.
It's the weakness of most companies, when their employees have to work together and stay in sync. Different people work on each app, I'm sure.
draggedbyrogan
On desktop in the web player I occasionally get the option to directly right click then "Remove from Playlist", but as you can see in the screenshot it's not always there in the menu. And if I remember correctly, the last few times I got the link it didn't actually work. Very annoying since I have to scroll down through the infinite scroll (i.e., loading 30 songs at a time with pauses in between scrolls) and try to remember what albums I added around the same time as that song's album. Crazy stupid oversight in the design. I guess the engineers never get tired of any songs ever, or they don't have any giant playlists.
Halfjap
This is still a major pain to use why can't we just have a delete on the individual song?
mattyd911
When I'm listening to one of my personally-created spotify playlists, and a song starts playing that I feel should be removed from that playlist, I should be able to do so without needing to find the song within the playlist (Some of my playlists are thousands of songs long)
agrays71
When I listening to music on a playlist, it would be great to have the ability to remove a song I no longer want from the when it cones on the "now playing" screen as opposed to having to search through the playlist to delete. Most times i don't think to remove songs from a Playlist until it lands on it. Especially if there are multiple songs i no longer desire to have
Sardonicist
The fact that you can't remove the current song from the active playlist, or indeed search for it, is totally absurd. It's not as if most of the functionality is not already built in to the app - if you click "Add to Playlist" it can tell me that the song is already in the selected playlist... why can't you have an option there to remove it?
dafjnksanvwt0k2dawhh
While playing a song, the opportunity would be very nice to remove it directly from a playlist (where you also can add the song to playlists). If you use the shuffle option and discover a song you don't want to have in your playlist anymore, you have to look for the song in your playlist. Especially when your playlist is very long, this can be annoying.
Chqra
I have a playlist that has TONS of songs but have a hard time finding those songs to remove it so why not Add a this Button? so whenever you hear a song you dislike you can just go "i dont want this song in this playlist" and just right click and remove current playing song in playlist
stubbles
GOOD GRIEF!! Provide a SIMPLE and DIRECT WAY to IMMEDIATELY delete a song that is currently playing from my own playlist. MANY users have been requesting this for at least two years. Fumbling around with multiple screens and menu selections is DANGEROUS and AGGRAVATING. PLEASE, PLEASE FIX THIS ALREADY!!@
Status changed to: Not Right Now
Nathananderson
Not sure what u mean for iOS.
Those instructions don't work.
But the three dots on lower left of currently playing song give access to "remove from this playlist". It's been like that for a while now. It just took like 7yrs to get there.