Playlists vs Your Music

Question

As a new user, I suspect that at some time Playlists were part of "Your Music", because the Spotify Help Solutions page says Your Music is "the place in Spotify where you’ll find your playlists [emphasis mine] and the songs, albums, and artists you’ve added."* However, on the current Mac client "PLAYLISTS" is an entirely separate category from "YOUR MUSIC". And when I add to my playlists, the albums I add don't show up under "Your Music" I do almost all my listening through playlists. I still haven't figured out the value of doing the extra step of adding an album to "Your Music" after I've added to one of my playlists. Am I doing something wrong--should music in my playlists automatically show up in "Your Music"? Can someone who has a similar usage pattern to me (almost exclusively Playlists, but my want to randomly select old albums to add to my current Rotation playlist)) help me with whether and how to use "Your Music"? *https://support.spotify.com/ca-en/problems/#!/article/what-is-your-music

Answer 1

Playlists are located in Your Music if you're on a mobile device. But not on the desktop. I use playlists almost exclusively simply because Your Music sucks for albums. For keeping tracks of good songs from 2015 I have a playlist called "songs from 2015" and ditto for albums. And I definitely don't think the music in my playlists should end up in Your Music. Now, there used to be a way to view playlists as an album list with artwork (by pressing ctrl-g / cmd-g) but for some reason Spotify removed that function two years ago and never brought it back. So now playlists basically suck for albums too. Go figure. I'd like Spotify to tweak Your Music by copying the Itunes way of organizing music. A list of artists to the left, and their albums to the right. And add a number of viewing options for playlists too while you're at it. Make it flexible!