topic Re: Only 10,000 songs playing in my liked songs in Your Library

Only 10,000 songs playing in my liked songs

jorisvandedonk — Fri, 20 Mar 2026 09:20:08 GMT

Hi people. Since a few days I have noticed that a lot of my liked songs list does not play anymore. Today I noticed that this is the case for all songs except for the 10,000 most recent songs I added. This means that about 64,000 songs in my list WILL NOT PLAY. If I add these songs to their own list, or play them through the artist page, everything is fine. This seems to happen regardless of the device I try it on, both my laptop and my phone. I know there used to be a limit of 10,000 years ago, but I am pretty sure it was working with all songs just days ago. Is anyone experiencing the same issue (also including a very slow app)? Is this known already at Spotify? If I can't listen to most of my liked songs I might need to go and find a different solution.

Re: Only 10,000 songs playing in my liked songs

AlejaR — Fri, 20 Mar 2026 22:57:52 GMT

Hey there @jorisvandedonk,

Thanks for posting in the Community and welcome.

Such behavior might be caused by large libraries. When you saved a high number of playlists/songs per playlist in your library, you should consider that the app's performance can be affected.

Remember, as per this moment, there’s a suggested 10,000 song limit per playlist; if you go over that, we cannot guarantee the app will work properly. We’d suggest you split up your Liked Songs playlist into smaller ones, or maybe deleting any playlists you don’t listen to anymore.

We hope you found this helpful. We're always here to help.

Re: Only 10,000 songs playing in my liked songs

jorisvandedonk — Fri, 20 Mar 2026 17:45:07 GMT

The liked songs list does not have such limit, in 2020 that limit got lifted. It used to work fine up until a few days ago, so it must have something to do with a recent update and not the size of the liked songs list, as this does not have a set limit.

Re: Only 10,000 songs playing in my liked songs

jorisvandedonk — Sun, 22 Mar 2026 10:29:10 GMT

Hi @AlejaR,

I have just found out, by using Spotify in an older version on my parents' computer, that the version was indeed the issue. Their Spotify on version 1.2.84.476 played my liked songs list just fine, no issue with only a limited amount of songs playing. When I updated to 1.2.85.519 I saw the same behavior as on my other machines: only the 10,000 most recent songs could play. This confirms my suspicion that a recent change has (probably erroneously) removed this capacity. I have downgraded on my laptop and that seems to work, I don't think this is possible on my iPhone. So for any others with large liked songs lists, DO NOT UPDATE YET! I hope this gets fixed in the (near) future.

Re: Only 10,000 songs playing in my liked songs

Dessi — Sun, 22 Mar 2026 11:49:25 GMT

Hey @jorisvandedonk,

Thanks for your reply!

We don't recommend using older versions as they aren't up-to-date with all the latest security patches, but since the issue you're experiencing does get fixed with installing an older one, we wanted to thank you for testing this and for the feedback! This should hopefully get fixed soon on a newer version as well.

Something else we wanted to mention again is that this amount of liked songs is known to cause some issues from time to time even if there is no hard limit anymore and we would recommend splitting your playlist up into smaller ones as @AlejaR already suggested.

The Community is here in case you need help with anything else.