Select multiple songs in a row per "Shift+click"

A premium streaming platform has to support users who wish to make mixes/playlists. To really support making mixes, that platform has to have a user friendly UI that allows users to move tracks around in bulk when working within a long playlist. Little fixes like this make a huge difference to usability. Clicking boxes individually is actually quite tedious in a long playlist, whereas shift functionality is extremely easy (and something that users are accustomed to expect).

I would also second the excellent point made by the user above: keyboard control is a basic compliance standard for making a program accessible for individuals with Disabilities.

I second this. I am trying to click through 200 songs and can’t continue because it makes my carpal tunnel flare up. I just want to make a playlist and now I can’t feel my hands. 🙃 If this doesn’t get fixed then I will be making a swift exit to another music streaming platform.

I also find it weird that you can’t select the selection box with keyboard controls at all. Even trying to jump around via the Tab key doesn’t work.

I recommend the devs check out WCAG standards: https://www.w3.org/WAI/standards-guidelines/wcag/

I’m shocked that such a basic feature doesn’t exist. How are we supposed to move or delete entire albums?

I appreciate you passing it along, and I am sure others do, but the development team should take a moment to read these comments first hand. There are consumers of this product telling you that the lack of basic accessibility features is causing them actual pain. That should be an attention getter, and a priority.

Also commenting on this. It does seem like such a basic thing should be easy to implement. Can we please get something happening? Otherwise I’m going to look for other more user friendly services.

I just moved to Deezer from Spotify and am now seriously considering moving again because of this (imo very basic) feature is missing. I have listened to music on computers for around 25 years and have NEVER seen a music playing interface before where you can’t select several tracks at once (without having to click them one by one), and seeing that this thread was started over 5 years ago makes me want to switch somewhere else immediately. I always have a huge playlist with albums I want to check out, and end up moving, deleting or adding stuff constantly. The prospect of having to click every checkbox for single tracks manually makes me lose all the excitement I had because of switching to a new music service.

What concerns me is, while bugs or critical feature like this one that I report are answered by the support quite quickly, I haven’t seen any fix yet. I see this feature has been requested for 6 years…

Other easily reproduced bugs like the current playing track not being visible in the playlist, clicking on another track’s group or title making the player jump to it instead of displaying the info, etc. have not been fixed, either, and they’re basic functionality.

6 years later, the right team is still looking at the request. WTF

There’s worse: in the queue, it’s not even possible to select multiple tracks to copy them.

I’m amazed such a simple app doesn’t have those basic features, and that even after all this time and those requests, nothing has improved.

I’ll give it a few more months, but I’m not sure I’ll keep my Premium subscription beyond that.

I too will be moving along to a different service. I’ve tried Tidal, Qobuz, Spotify, Apple Music and they all have a version of this. Some are even kind of buggy and difficult to work perfectly, but I will put up with any of that hands down over the checkboxes.

Absolutely forget adding a whole album to a playlist, because if you ever need to move it or simply delete it, you will be stuck having to click 20 boxes with pinpoint accuracy. Here’s a good example of how it gets wild. Many many classical music albums have different pieces out of order (a holdover from CD days, to fit on CD). And each work has like 3-5 movements. Trying to create a playlist of all Mozart’s 27 piano concertos into playable order, let’s say, would be an impossible amount of checkbox clicking and dragging. This is such a fundamental UX problem. Wish I could stay, but it’s a dealbreaker.