enhance playlist removes local files added to that playlist

[hypergreatthing]

Enhancing the playlist seems to remove non spotify songs from a playlist even if they're cached/downloaded.
I get your adding songs and it's probably based how spotify songs are categorized, but it shouldn't remove anything from the playlist even if it can't make recommendations for those songs.
Enhance should only add suggested songs, not remove.

[Alan_Chen777]

I just had the same thought and hoped they fix this. It's really weird and makes no sense.

[Yordan]

Hi folks,

Thanks for reaching out to the Community!

Looks like this is the current expected behavior - the Enhance feature will automatically hide any local files you have in the playlist for as long as it remains toggled on. Enhance will display song recommendations in their place, however, adding or removing any of these won't have any effect on your existing local files and they'll show back up when the feature is toggled off.

If you have a suggestion on how to improve the interaction between Enhance and local files, you can submit it on our Ideas Exchange board. Others can then show their support by giving it a thumbs up and sharing their feedback. When your Idea gathers enough votes it is sent to our internal teams for review and potential implementation.

More info on how your feedback reaches Spotify can be found here.

Hope this clears things up. Cheers!

[hypergreatthing]

just two things:

1) This seems like a bug and or unintended consequences of the enhance feature.  People create playlists.  They expect their songs added to that playlist to be part of that playlist.  Removal of songs due to a feature doesn't seem as if it should ever be intended, even if it's just temporary.

2) Your Ideas Exchange board has stopped taking in new suggestions.  I as a paying customer of spotify am taking my time to communicate errors/bugs/or suggestions shouldn't have to jump through hoops just to provide feedback.  I've already reached my threshold of effort to get something fixed with your product.  I won't be following up days/weeks/months later to see if i can rewrite a new post on your ideas exchange board just to see some improvements.

[Misterboy]

This is ridiculous and needs to be changed immediately. As hypergreatthing said, there is no reason that the "Enhance" feature should do ANYTHING to your playlist besides simply adding more songs. There is NO REASON that the feature should be REMOVING songs that the user has added because, well, if I add a song to a playlist I WANT THAT SONG TO REMAIN IN THE PLAYLIST no matter what setting I enable. Why would the Enhance feature remove a song from my playlist, regardless of whether it is a Spotify-based song or not? This is a ridiculous oversight and you should really do everything in your power to send this feedback to the higher-ups and not make us jump through hoops by going to an Ideas Exchange board which we all know won't provide any reasonable, timely changes. Please do better.

[1199688488]

This is just ridiculous, as others have said. I just spent forty minutes trying to figure out why my local file songs weren't showing up, clearing caches and all that, just to find that it's because I had enhance toggled on. 

Now I have to decide whether I want old music that's not hosted here on spotify or new music based on my streamed songs in the playlist. 

Why on earth do I have to choose?

[Ogkillergreen]

This is still an issue.

[chris71421]

+1 We spent lots of time curating our playlists and the enhance feature does not as it's name suggests.
It should enhance/augment what already exist not throw everything away.

[sceeeene]

This is a stupid ""feature"", why would I want songs which I have added to my playlist to be removed in order to 'enhance' it? How is it that beneficial to the user in the slightest? Please remove this feature from enhanced playlists as there is absolutely no good reason it behaves this way.

[greedlez]

Still an issue to this day.  Used to have a decent amount of songs hosted from my PC that were downloaded into playlists on my mobile device that were removed when I accidentally activated the Enhanced feature.

I don't understand why this is even an issue in the first place.  I'm no programmer, but I imagine you can resolve this without even removing the feature.  Take it out as a toggle option in shuffle and make Enhance its own separate option just like it is on the desktop client.  Or **bleep**, even a small pop-up menu that spawn from shuffle giving you the three options without forcing you to cycle between them would work just fine.

I know it's probably easier said than done, but I can't possibly imagine it's an impossible ask.

[CraX_e621]

In what universe is a feature potentially wiping a good chunk of your playlist an "expected" feature, especially when absolutely nothing states that this will happen?

Nobody expects their playlist to quietly remove content when shuffling it, unless you have an incredibly different definition for what "expected" means.

[Lal11]

At least thanks to you guys, I found the reason of my problem. Thanks a million !