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Cannot sort my music by artist

Cannot sort my music by artist

I have attached the filters available in my library.

 

According to the Spotify help page here: https://support.spotify.com/nz/using_spotify/playlists/sorting-and-filtering/ it is supposed to show Playlists, Songs, Albums or Artists but mine only shows Playlists and Saved?

 

How can I sort my saved music by artists...?

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What spotify version are you using and which device/android version?

Hi Joe,

 

I am using a OnePlus3 which is running Android 6.0.1, my spotify version is 6.0.0.864

I don't understand why your screen is so radically different from mine. Have you actually saved any music rather than adding it to playlists? What does tapping "Saved" from that screen take you to?

Yes I have saved some music, if I tap saved it takes me to the first screenshot, with options to filter by Stations, Albums, Artists and Podcasts, 

 

If I then tap Albums, it correctly displays all my saved albums as displayed in the second screenshot.

 

However, tapping on artists gives a blank library with the message "Your favorite artists will appear here". I believe this SHOULD show my Saved artists? If I could get them to appear in here that would be acceptable as well. At the moment I have no way to sort by artist! 

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Ah OK, it looks like some of us have "your Library" and some have "Your Music". Your saved albums are listed alphabetically by artist, by default although you can change the sort order if you want.

 

Saving an album doesn't save the artist so I'm guessing that you haven't actually saved any artists (from the artist pages) or followed any artists (also from the artist pages) which is why you get that message on the "Artists" page. Try saving or following some of your favourite artists and see how it goes.

 

Just to be clear, the first page isn't a filter but a menu to take you to the relevant section of your library. The filters are available once you are on the artists, albums or songs page and accessed by dragging the list down.

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