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Re:Spotify playing ads for paid subscribers by happymellon on Wednesday March 18, 2026 @03:44PM (#47430503)
Don't you just swipe right on a song to add it to the queue?
Re:Spotify playing ads for paid subscribers by shimman on Wednesday March 18, 2026 @04:43PM (#47431211)
I wish! Just tried this on the iPhone app (sure it's all the same flavor of electron) but it doesn't work.
Re:Spotify playing ads for paid subscribers by piva00 on Wednesday March 18, 2026 @07:13PM (#47432566)
It does work, I just did on my app, swiping right will show an icon to add to queue on the left side of the track, slide it until it's green.

The iPhone app is not Electron, it's a native app.

Re:Spotify playing ads for paid subscribers by shimman on Wednesday March 18, 2026 @07:59PM (#47432932)
This appears to only work for songs, this action does not work for podcasts or playlists. Wow! What bad engineering culture, likely only caring about what's in the ticket and not the feature overall. I guess this is what happens to a product after spending a decade only hiring people who can do leetcode.
Re:Spotify playing ads for paid subscribers by piva00 on Thursday March 19, 2026 @08:11AM (#47437981)
There's no leetcode interviewing at Spotify as far as I know.
Re:Spotify playing ads for paid subscribers by cuuupid on Wednesday March 18, 2026 @05:21PM (#47431583)
I mean Spotify sucks but Electron is a desktop framework, not what their iPhone app is built with, and you can queue by swiping right on their official app.
Re:Spotify playing ads for paid subscribers by shimman on Wednesday March 18, 2026 @05:26PM (#47431623)
Wow, this only works for songs (and it's left) but not podcast episodes (my main use case). I had no idea you could do this! If I have to blame someone, I blame snapchat for making "unknown UX controls as something for users to discover" as the main pusher of the UI trend.

Rather than sending me marketing materials, I wish companies would send power users tips/tricks. Would definitely read those emails.

Re:Spotify playing ads for paid subscribers by happymellon on Thursday March 19, 2026 @01:33AM (#47435345)
I don't use Spotify for anything other than music so wasn't aware of this limitation, but on Android it is definitely swiping right.

That rubbish that it's different per platform.