[Desktop][Your Music] Make "Your Music" friendlier to large collections

I've appreciated all the big interface changes that have gone into helping out people who like to collect album-by-album, and the "Your Music" functionality is really great. However, for people with big collections such as myself (well over 6000 songs spanning over 18 straight days of music, although i'm sure I'm not the biggest out there) it's kind of hard to just browse your music looking for an album to listen to. The album art based "Albums" view is very pretty, but for me it only fits 8 albums on screen at a time, which makes browsing your collection by album very slow. My idea is to add a slider, similar to the functionality that lets you change icon size in Windows' File Explorer, by which you could control the size of the albums manually: (Image not mine) It would also be cool to have "List" functionality, like File Explorer; just displaying the albums in a big list next to the artist and year, sort of how the Songs view is now, but for albums. It's a pretty minor gripe, but it would help make Spotify more usable for "music hoarders" such as myself :)

Updated: 2015-07-26Hello and thanks for the feedback!
Any news regarding this request will be announced in the original idea topic here:
https://community.spotify.com/t5/Live-Ideas/Your-Music-View-Options-Icons-amp-List-view/idi-p/750175
Please add your kudos and comments there, if you haven't already. ;)

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