Spotify on Microsoft Windows 11 gets Jam, and moves queue to the right side

While Spotify has launched nowits much-awaited “Jam” function on Microsoft Windows 11 or 10, it has made questionable interface modifications. First, Spotify has moved its queue to the appropriate aspect of the app. It’s locked to the appropriate aspect, and you’ll’t open it on the complete display screen. Second, you may now not see favored songs, length, or albums within the latest queue design.

I’m not a fan of the latest Spotify updates for Microsoft Windows, principally as a result of I gained’t be using the Jam function. According to the official launch notes, Spotify has moved the Queue to the appropriate aspect, so you may navigate the app and nonetheless see what tune is coming next, particularly when you’re in a Jam.

If you’re jamming, these choices pop up on the high of the Queue on the aspect. You can swap to the Now Playing View or see what your mates are listening to with a fast click on. That can be nice for individuals using Jam, proper? But some customers together with myself dislike the way it’s now not doable to open “Now playing” and Queue collectively.

In reality, some customers are confused about whether or not it is a design change or a bug, with one consumer on Reddit noting: “The queue is showing up on the sidebar where I almost always have view on (I like being able to see the info sometimes, so I leave it on). It wasn’t doing that earlier when I was using Spotify. I’ve tried to restart everything, and it’s still happening.”

After the updates, the app will all the time present the homepage, and the appropriate sidebar is now used to modify between what’s enjoying and the Queue.

You can nonetheless hover over the enjoying tune and click on “Expand”, however it would open “now playing” on the appropriate aspect in a restricted view and conceal a lot of the queued songs. If you wish to see all of your queued songs, you may develop the queue, which collapses the present enjoying tune.

As proven within the above screenshot, you may now not see monitor size within the queue sidebar. The album identify and favored songs are additionally lacking.

Users dislike Spotify queue modifications, restricted now enjoying on Microsoft Windows

As I famous on X (Twitter), Microsoft Windows 11 has an ideal full-fledged native app for Apple Music. On the opposite hand, Spotify appears to be scuffling with its internet wrapper design decisions.

The updatesd Microsoft Windows 11 app needs you to maintain wanting on the dwelling web page whether or not you prefer it or not, and it’s now not doable to maintain an in depth monitor of the upcoming music playlist with now enjoying open.

“I know Spotify loves to change the UI every couple of months but I really am getting frustrated with the cluttered experience. I used to love full sized album art before the ‘now playing’ view, and then I at least enjoyed having the queue displayed as the main screen. But now both are changed,” one other annoyed consumer wrote in a submit to Spotify group discussion board.

“I don’t want to see what I *could* play, once I have chosen a playlist, I want to see what *will* play. Or at least have the option to full-screen it,” they added.

Spotify says this variation is meant to assist us browse whereas nonetheless keeping track of what’s next or if we’re in a Jam. That’s nice, however I gained’t use the Jam function commonly.

The multi-billion greenback firm is thought for making controversial design decisions. In April 2023, Spotify changed its desktop app with an internet wrapper to chop prices and grow to be a cross-platform service.