topic Re: Accidentally Deleted 'Liked Songs' and associated 'Date Added' data in Your Library

Accidentally Deleted 'Liked Songs' and associated 'Date Added' data

Dill24 — Thu, 30 Oct 2025 21:20:53 GMT

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Premium

Country

United States of America

Operating System

Windows 11

I’m not sure if this is more of a help request, an idea proposal, or a bit of a rant, but I’m frustrated by the way some things work—and have been for a while. Here’s the incident that finally pushed me to write this.

I really enjoy the desktop feature that tracks when a song was added—either to a playlist or to Liked Songs. I even maintain a public playlist called Liked Songs so I can share it if I want.
(Side note: why does the default Liked Songs playlist have fewer features? I can’t share it or organize it in a custom order.)

Earlier today, I noticed a song missing from my custom playlist, even though the song count matched my default Liked Songs.
I added the song to my custom playlist, but then realized there was still a discrepancy: 574 songs in my custom playlist vs. 573 in Liked Songs.

As many of you know, when you bulk-add songs to a playlist, Spotify pops up a message if any are already in it—letting you choose to add only new songs or add everything (creating duplicates).

Assuming the same logic would apply to Liked Songs, and in an attempt to discover the source of the discrepancy, I selected all songs in my custom playlist and clicked “Save to Liked Songs.” Big mistake—it unliked and re-liked every song, completely resetting my “Date Added” metadata and ruining the chronological order I’d curated for years.

Ctrl + Z didn’t help. Meanwhile, I was still listening to Spotify auto-play my old order—one that apparently no longer existed. I came across threads like here and there suggesting that Spotify Support might be able to restore Liked Songs to an earlier state.

I reached out to Support and attached a transcript (with personal info redacted) to this post. I want to say up front: I do think the advisor did their best with the tools available and genuinely tried to help. Unfortunately, the “Date Added” metadata couldn’t be restored, and the restore process itself briefly added an incorrect number of songs. We eventually got close to the original count, and I thanked the advisor since I could rebuild the list from my custom playlist anyway. Still, I’ll probably never know what caused that one-song discrepancy that started this whole mess.

I have since read threads like this one that suggest that the Date Added metadata can't be fixed in the first place. I decided to post here as a sort of last-ditch attempt to see if there's any further insight or help I could get.

This might be getting beyond the scope of a help request and into the realm of idea suggestion but I feel compelled to add it here:

If removing songs from Liked Songs causes such permanent metadata loss, then:

Why is there no confirmation popup for unliking in some cases—especially on mobile?
Why is this data unrecoverable, even for Premium users or through internal tools?

When I unlike a song from Liked Songs by clicking or tapping the little checkmark, I do get a confirmation prompt. But if I locate the song from Search on mobile (e.g., to add it to a queue), the remove button is placed very close to “Add to Queue”—and there’s no prompt at all. And in my case today, no confirmation popup appeared even when removing hundreds of songs at once. It seems backward that a multi-song removal wouldn’t ask for confirmation when removing a single song does.

I’d appreciate any insight or help with this—from anyone who’s run into similar issues or knows more about how Spotify handles metadata.

Beyond that, I’d love advice on:

Which parts of this should be split off into separate idea suggestions, and
How I can support or upvote existing ideas if they already exist.

Thank you for any help or feedback, thank you to the rep who assisted, and thank you just for reading this.

Re: Accidentally Deleted 'Liked Songs' and associated 'Date Added' data

MihailY — Sat, 22 Nov 2025 08:45:32 GMT

Hey @Dill24,

Thanks for reaching out. Appreciate the time you took to describe your issue and to look into the topic on your own and I'm sorry to hear about your experience.

While our colleagues from chat and email support can reset the contents of your Liked Songs playlist to a previous state, I'm afraid that it's indeed not possible to restore the Date added attribute due to some technical limitations in our internal tools.

Regarding your suggestions for a warning, there actually is one (see screenshot) when you try to delete two or more tracks at once using the Delete/Backspace buttons on desktop, however there isn't one when using the context menu and when removing songs on mobile, so I'll make sure your feedback reaches the relevant team at Spotify.

In the meantime, feel free to vote for these ideas on the topic and share your thoughts in the comments section:

We're currently unable to implement the first one, however, systems and tools change and if/when this becomes possible, the feedback from users like you would be very valuable.

Once again, thank you for your effort in presenting your issue and don't hesitate to let us know if there's anything else you wish to address!

Deleted Liked Songs

Bormz — Sat, 22 Nov 2025 08:46:04 GMT

Plan

Free/Premium

Country

Device

(iPhone 8, Samsung Galaxy 9, Macbook Pro late 2016)

Operating System

(iOS 10, Android Oreo, Windows 10,etc.)

My Question or Issue

Help! I accidentally deleted my liked songs, and I want them back.

Re: Deleted Liked Songs

Vasil — Sat, 22 Nov 2025 08:48:03 GMT

Hey @Bormz,

Sorry to see this has happened.
What I'd advise in this situation is to reach out to our folks backstage via the link, provided by @MihailY. They should have the ability to restore your playlist to a previous state.

Hope this gets sorted out for your quickly. We're here in case you need anything else in the meantime.

liked songs are missing from the last four+ years

Mrshiat — Thu, 04 Dec 2025 11:41:06 GMT

Plan

Premium

Country

Device

Fold7

Operating System

Windows 11

My Question or Issue

Today I noticed the last liked song added is aug 27th 2021, i haven't deleted them. I am hoping there is a way to get them back somehow

Re: liked songs are missing from the last four+ years

Vasil — Thu, 04 Dec 2025 13:19:14 GMT

Hey @Mrshiat,

Thanks for reaching out about this!
If you're only seeing songs up to 2021, you may be logged into a different account. It's a good idea to clear your app's cached data and to log out and back in twice in a row to trigger a manual sync of your settings and data, making sure you log into the correct account.

In case the issue remains, I'd advise taking a look if it's present across multiple platforms and not just your current device.

If it is, you can use the link, provided in this thread by @MihailY to reach out to our folks backstage so that they can take a look at your account and to get your Liked playlist restored to a previous version, depending on what they find.

Hope this helps! We're here for you if there's anything else in the meantime.

Re: liked songs are missing from the last four+ years

Mrshiat — Thu, 04 Dec 2025 13:40:22 GMT

Yup, support ended up getting the liked songs back. One annoyance is that i had the list by date added, but the restore reset the date added to yesterday. Guess you can't win them all.

Re: Accidentally Deleted 'Liked Songs' and associated 'Date Added' data

Timalph — Sun, 04 Jan 2026 08:24:49 GMT

Bump to acknowledge that I had similar experience as OP. I had a massive liked songs list in chronological order. I wanted to copy my liked songs to a new playlist but accidentally hovered over my liked songs again, copying the entire liked songs list back into liked songs. This overwrote all 'data added' metadata.

The 'date added' feature is very important to me as it allows me to see how my music has evolved throughout the years. I honestly do not understand this behaviour, why this metadata is deleted, or why it is not backed up.

Hope this can be fixed in the future.

Re: Accidentally Deleted 'Liked Songs' and associated 'Date Added' data

PookieJenkins — Fri, 09 Jan 2026 04:32:12 GMT

Yeah I would like to restore songs that I accidentally deleted to its original date on my liked songs playlist or just any playlist because it’s a pain to have to redelete songs you added right after just to put back one song and then readd all the songs to your playlist you just deleted, if Spotify could make a 90 day recovery for songs to be added to its original date that were accidentally deleted from either your liked songs playlist or your own playlists, that would be so neat! It would save a whole lot of time and make a lot of us super happy

Liked Song

Ghart — Fri, 20 Mar 2026 14:18:41 GMT

Hi, I accidentally unliked all of the song in the Liked Song playlist, is there a way for me to restore it back?

Re: liked songs are missing from the last four+ years

jmlee — Thu, 26 Mar 2026 00:14:14 GMT

Hello @Vasil

I accidentally unliked a song while on my mobile phone and was unable to see what song it so that I could add it back. After looking online, it looks like you guys can restore my library to a certain date, and I was hoping that it could be done for me.

Justin

Re: Accidentally Deleted 'Liked Songs' and associated 'Date Added' data

wokedaboi — Sun, 26 Apr 2026 06:36:58 GMT

can they please add a confirm for just removing one song

Re: Accidentally Deleted 'Liked Songs' and associated 'Date Added' data

alex-music — Thu, 14 May 2026 14:11:49 GMT

I am facing the same issue - I selected all liked songs and accidentally dropped them in the same place instead of a playlist I was trying to create. It messed up all the "Date Addded"... I used to sort them on date added... but now everything is having the same date. PLEASE HELP SPOTIFY!!!

All song from playlist "Liked song" disapeeared

Che_rish — Tue, 19 May 2026 08:57:58 GMT

Plan

Premium

Device

(iPhone, Huawei P30, pc)

Operating System

(iOS 18, Android, Windows 10)

My Question or Issue

All my favorite songs from playlist "liked songs" just disappeared a week ago (May 12). I tried to reinstall the apps, to log out and log in back - but nothing happened. I found the similar topic but it seems the problem resolved itself. But I still have this issue and I don't know what to do.