topic Re: Follow button changed to heart button in Desktop (Windows)

Follow button changed to heart button

apemon — Thu, 05 Jul 2018 06:47:27 GMT

This morning my artist page "Follow" button has turned into a heart button. It does the same thing as Follow did, but it's much harder to quickly see whether I'm following (hearting? liking?) an artist, since the button is very small and doesn't change color.

I know you're trying to sort out the follow/like/heart/love -mess, and I don't really care what you call that button, but please try to make less abrupt visual changes to the ui - have some heart you guys!

Re: Follow button changed to heart button

Loxer — Thu, 05 Jul 2018 08:50:29 GMT

Hey @apemon, welcome to the Community.

Hope you are having a great time!

Nothing to worry! Spotify is undertaking some changes and Songs folder name is now Favorite Songs. Another change is that the + and Follow buttons are changed to a ♥︎.
You will be able to Follow artists and playlists by tapping that heart which will add the to Your library, but don't worry they won't be added to your Favorite Songs yet. When you open a playlist or when exploring an artisits page for songs you can tap ♥︎ again this time to save them in Favorite Songs.
Spotify has done this change to make one universal icon to add something to your library! ♥︎

Have a nice day!

Re: Follow button changed to heart button

jamesgeorgeward — Thu, 05 Jul 2018 13:13:38 GMT

That was originally the star button that you hastily got rid of!

Re: Follow button changed to heart button

412294XO — Fri, 06 Jul 2018 00:27:27 GMT

wondering if you guys could revert this, i don't really like the idea of it being a heart and then when i heart my fav songs idk... it gets confusing asf...

Re: Follow button changed to heart button

scythedelic — Sun, 08 Jul 2018 05:43:18 GMT

I don't like it either. I much rather have the check marks and plus signs. Much more neutral than hearts. I don't want hearts all over my super aggressive playlists or anything else that isn't RnB, Lounge, etc. What a distasteful design choice.

Re: Follow button changed to heart button

Radu1502 — Sun, 08 Jul 2018 15:28:32 GMT

I don't like the heart too but I think we'll get used to it.

Re: Follow button changed to heart button

HansenPhoto — Wed, 11 Jul 2018 01:47:41 GMT

I agree with music fan, this change was unnecessary and confusing

Re: Follow button changed to heart button

BuildaLife — Sun, 29 Jul 2018 16:14:00 GMT

Just because I want to follow an artist doesn't mean I want to save music to my library. I prefer having two separate ways to track info.