Playing entire Playlist Folders

[soultsunami]

I have several Playlist Folders, with multiple playlists in each. (For instance, I have a Playlist Folder titled "The Hits" with 5 Playlists from 5 different decades of hits). Up until recently, there was an option to "Play All Songs" which would randomly select various songs within that entire Folder (it would jump from Playlist to Playlist within that Folder, which would enable me to listen to all decades of hits at once). That option now seems to be gone on my iPad and iPhone. Now when I choose "The Hits" on those devices, I see my 5 playlists within that Folder, but I can only play ONE playlist at a time. Similarly, every one of my Playlist Folders is within a "master" Playlist Folder called "Complete Song Library", and, if I choose "Complete Song Library", there was an option called "Play All Songs" which would enable me to play EVERY SONG within my Complete Song Library (all Folders and Playlists within those Folders, as well as stand alone Playlists). Again, gone. I noticed, however, that that option is still available on my desktop. Was there a change to just IOS devices?  If so, is there a way I can play EVERY SONG in my entire song library randomly (or in order, if I choose that)?? HELP. 

[MartinStoichkov]

Hello @soultsunami, thanks for posting! 

Unfortunately, this feature has been removed from the mobile devices. 

You can leave your vote and comments in support to this idea : )

2 workarounds I can suggest here: 

• Make a playlist containing all the songs from the folder 
• Start to play trough the desktop app, then transfer the playback to your mobile device

[Motafota]

They removed the ability to do this on mobile last month and honestly it is the last straw for me. Spotify has been going into the ground removing all its functionality. If you were to compare it from when i first started paying premium 2 years ago then you would find that Spotify was better and did more back then than it does now.

Switching to Apple Music. 

[cfotland]

Why would Spotify want to make their service worse by removing handy features? How can I transfer my Spotify playlists to iTunes?

[strannik]

"Unfortunately, this feature has been removed from the mobile devices. "

**bleep**...PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE Put this back - you are RUINING Spotify - this is enough to make me start shopping for other services.

[MitchellKivits]

Would be good to see this feature otherwise I don’t see the point of folders.

[Alex]

Hi everybody,

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