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by ElliotH 5457 days ago
The thing with Spotify is the 'adding albums to your collection' model isn't one they're keen to promote. The idea is really (as far as I can tell - and I've been a full-price paying user for a long while now) that you have this HUGE collection of music always available, and if you want to listen to an album - you search, then there's playlist support as well.

You can ofc save albums as a playlist on their own - and this is quite well supported, but personally, after the first 10 albums I'd saved there, I have never found it to be very useful.

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Sure, every subscription music service has search. It's essential, but navigating their entire library and navigating just stuff I like is not the same. Some times I just want to browse my favorite artists. I can't do this effectively on Spotify. The user experience here is bad. I don't think I'm the only person who wants to "favorite" albums.
All saved music lists in Spotify has clickable Album, Artist and Track links so in effect you can easily make "Album" lists. I have done that for ages.