Spotify finally removes its 10,000-song library limit
You can add as much music as youd like to your Spotify library now
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- on May 26, 2020 10:42 am
Spotify has finally removed its 10,000-song cap on library sizes, allowing users to add as much music as theyd like to their personal libraries without any limits at all, fixing a problem that has plagued music-lovers on the service for years.
While Spotify has more than 50 million songs available to customers to stream at any time, until today, there was a hard limit of 10,000 songs that users could save to their own Your Music collections on Spotify for easy access.
Users have been requesting that Spotify remove the limit for years, but the company had previously shown resistance to the idea, commenting in 2017, At the moment we dont have plans to extend the Your Music limit. The reason is because less than 1% of users reach it.
The new system only applies to the ability to save songs to your Spotify library. Individual playlists are still limited to 10,000 items, and users can only download up to 10,000 songs on each of their five different devices for offline listening.
Spotifys announcement notes that it may take a bit of time for the newly removed limit to roll out to customers, so if youre still seeing the old Epic collection error, you might just need to wait a bit longer.
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Comments
downloaded music > streaming music
By veesonic on 05.26.20 10:54am
Agree if you put in the work and have it all organized, I agree. On my iPhone 7 Plus [upgrade coming soon] I have just over 15,000 songs on my iPhone synced with Music/iTunes.
I do feel this ovation by Spotify is a real nice gesture to music fans and it another plus to there service.
By Kyle Golik on 05.26.20 2:07pm
FINALLY !!!
By Sillik on 05.26.20 10:58am
"finally"
By Meatsquad on 05.26.20 10:59am
I have my entire Apple Music library on my iPhone, which is roughly 25k song which is roughly 75GB of storage space. You still cant upload your own music to Spotify. 10k download limit. No go.
By Ben Hoppe on 05.26.20 11:30am
It was 3333 songs a few months ago, as a long-time Spotify user, ive got used to baby steps.
By Abattofueueueisfg on 05.26.20 12:26pm
It was 3333 two years ago, the limit was increased to 10,000 in 2018.
By P_Devil on 05.26.20 12:54pm
A few can meet 20 months, right? Thats terrifying though
By Abattofueueueisfg on 05.26.20 3:16pm
A few months would be 2-9, typically 3-5 though. 20 would is definitely more than a few Still, its taken 12 years for them to finally get rid of this limit.
By P_Devil on 05.26.20 3:42pm
Youve been able to upload your own music to Spotify for years on PC, which can then be synced to mobile and added to your library through a playlist.
By FlyingNipple on 05.26.20 1:27pm
Its not uploading to Spotify though. Your PC hosts the files and you can download them to your phone. If you want to stream them, your PC has to be on and your device must be connected to the same WiFi network. Thats not uploading. Uploading would be Spotify hosting your files so that you could access them on any device running the Spotify app anywhere you have a data connection, not just when your PC is running with the Spotify program open and it being connected to your WiFi.
By P_Devil on 05.26.20 1:45pm
Spotify has a huge gap in its library when it comes to non-western music and defunct bands that would be great to fill with our personal libraries but I just never see it happening.
By EddieRiggs on 05.26.20 2:05pm
I dont either. It would be nice but the music locker is a dying feature. Amazon took it away, Deezer supports 2000 songs [?], YouTube Music just unlocked this but its a mess, Apple Music does though it prefers matching content and not hosting it, and thats about it. Tidal, Qobuz, Spotify, SoundCloud, Pandora, and others dont support it. My songs are mainly from soundtracks that, for whatever reason, arent on Spotify but the rest of the album is [like Redeemer by Marilyn Manson on the Queen of the Damned soundtrack]. Im OK with Spotifys solution though I would much prefer having a real music locker so that my songs can integrate with my playlists and library.
By P_Devil on 05.26.20 3:53pm
Idk about the rest but Apple matches my songs with higher quality versions it has and everything else it cant match, it does upload for hosting.
By iruletheworld on 05.26.20 4:49pm
My main issue with the matching is there are tracks it matches with iTunes Store/Apple Music versions when mine are different. I want my content actually uploaded and iTunes usually matches them. So I had to strip all track tag info, upload to my iCloud account, then edit the track tags in iTunes. It would be nice to have the option to either upload or match, not be forced into matching and taking a back route to upload if things are being matched. Theres also the other issue of Apple replacing content down the line: explicit songs with clean versions, studio releases for live versions, remixes for regular versions My library is a mess after all these years of using Apple Music and I really dont want to clean it up. 26,000+ songs are a lot to go through.
By P_Devil on 05.28.20 4:42pm
I wouldnt say YouTube Musics is a mess. Obviously that comes down to preference, but I really like that they dont bother with the matching process anymore.
Whatever you upload is what goes in the cloud. Your metadata, your album artwork, your audio file.
By Chris Welch on 05.26.20 6:24pm
I guess "mess" might be too harsh. I just dont like that metadata cant be edited after a song has been uploaded, everything that isnt 256kbps AAC gets transcoded for streaming/downloading in the app [much how GPM did with non-mp3 files], and its not integrated with my library. Plus Im still bitter about them not increasing the limit for at least the Your likes auto-playlist. I feel like that should be unlimited, Im fine with manually made playlist shaving a limit of 5000 songs.
By P_Devil on 05.26.20 8:54pm
Thats why you keep your own locker. Plex baby!
By shabanga on 05.26.20 11:46pm
Ive definitely been out and about and listened to my songs uploaded from my computer, using cellular
By theclinton on 05.26.20 10:52pm
Only if theyve been downloaded to your phone. Otherwise no, its impossible with the way Spotify has things setup.
By P_Devil on 05.27.20 5:09am
Ahh yea they are, far as I know thats the only way they show up on mobile
By theclinton on 05.28.20 5:17pm
why tho
By alipscomb on 05.26.20 4:01pm
Thats awesome! Finally! Now if Spotify could make the library a more traditional Artist > Album > Song layout instead of the Artist > Song layout then I would switch in a second. I want more organization in my music library then Spotify currently allows so I use Apple Music.
By BlueLemon on 05.26.20 11:36am
Albums? What albums? Almost every new pop song is released as a single or ep. Albums are just playlists at this point.
By sirbenjamin on 05.26.20 7:08pm
EXACTLY its about artist, song, playlist [either album or app specific playlist]. Spotify gets it, Apples stuck looking at their CD tower.
By wouwout on 05.26.20 9:11pm