Hide songs that I don't like from a shared playlist

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I'm totally with you when it comes to simplicity. It's one of the reasons why I recommended Spotify to my friends (the other ones being the concept and the catalog...)

I've read a number of posts in this forum asking for mini-community, privileges management, friends, etc... All of this is surely cool and trendy but it's true that if you introduce this kind of features the usability of the product will suffer from them.

But I think what I'm describing here is a little different. I think the playlist sharing is brilliant and I really see it becoming a big thing in the future. But I think the current feature is not used at its full potential. And it's true that what I'm proposing is some kind of bridge between regular and collaborative playlists.

I don't know if people share my use cases but here's how I use Spotify:

Collaborative playlists: I won't use them because I have no control of who will add or remove things, change the order of songs etc... I might only use them for really ponctual needs with trusted friends.

Regular playlists: I use them a lot, categorizing things that I don't want to search everytime I want to listen to them. I also send them to my friends with similar taste to give them some ideas of songs. Now, they tell me that they need to copy the content of the playlist to one of their own playlists in order to remove songs that they don't like.
The other way around, I use playlist sharing websites to get playlists but I only keep them a few minutes, in order to scan them for songs I might not have thought of. Then I remove them, because I'm not interested in all the songs of the playlist.

And that's where the limitation comes:
If you have found a playlist that you like but not everything on it, you won't use it to play your music, because at times you will play songs you don't like.
You could keep the two playlists (the original one and yours) but when they are long, it's impossible to find what's been updated, so you won't really try to synchronize.
It's frustating when you're using a playlist from someone else and even more when you're regularly updating a playlist that you share because there's a real chance people won't get your updates.

The other way to "solve" this would be to have the date when the song was added to the playlist and to be able to sort the playlist using this field (maybe hide this field by default). People would be able to see what's recently been added.

Regarding the complexity of the solution I proposed, I think it really could be only one right-click menu option on songs (hide/unhide this song) and one on the playlist (show hidden songs), and only for playlists from other users. I find this new complexity acceptable compared to having 2 only slightly different playlists (your private list and the ones from the other user) and having to manually synchronize.

anyway, just my 2 cts. Thanks for reading such a long post ! ( Delete or Edit)