[All Platforms][Playlists] Feature for normal user to customize playlist cover

Hello spotfiy commuity! I saw a post about this a cople of years back, but I feel like its time to revisit the subject. I have always wanted a feature that enabled me to choose a custom playlist cover photo. This would make my playlist even more personal. I always wonder why this wasn't a feature, I thought that it could be legal issues with the pictures, but just resently spotify released the "Discover weekly" that is absolutely amazing! On the playlist they use your facebook picture as the playlist cover. So it can't be legal issues? One can use anything as a facebook photo (No copy rights needed). I know this is a feature for records companys or larger playlist and so on. I can understand that its limited to partners, but I don't think it would do any harm to add this feature for regular users aswell? All I really want is an reason why this isn't a feature for normal users :)

Updated: 2015-08-03Hi and thanks for your contribution! Any announcements about this potential feature will be announced in this thread:
https://community.spotify.com/t5/Live-Ideas/Customization-of-playlists-cover-and-description-box/idi-p/211048
Add your kudos and comments there please!

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