Liked songs not showing a heart when played

[user-removed]

My Spotify is basically unusable now because all of the songs I spent two years collecting and adding hearts next to… no longer show as green. Just an empty, clear heart icon that I now have to press AGAIN if I want to see the icon turn green. I will now have to go back and manually put a green heart icon next to like 2600 songs in my library because my brain cannot distinguish between “songs I’ve never heard/don’t like and songs that I do like aka green heart” . The songs that used to have green hearts (the 2600 songs in my library) still show in my liked songs playlist, but when I click on those “liked songs” to play them it does not show a green heart- just a clear heart icon. For example, my favorite band is Dayshell so I put a green heart next to most songs. When I listen to those songs, the green heart is no longer green. But the songs are in my playlists as liked. I can no longer distinguish between songs I like and songs I don’t like/haven’t heard. For me, the green heart is like leaving a marker on a tree on a trail so you don’t get lost aka I’ve already been here. wth is this please make it stop I have tried uninstalling and clearing cache and all of that. I am SO TIRED OF BEING A STUPID GUINEA PIG for awful changes that destroy my listening experience- premium account by the way on iOS 16.2 

[kaworu_bloodpaw]

Hi @Wreckitrocco21

This is an ongoing experiment by Spotify. I understand the frustration, however, it seems weird that the hearts are still visible to you. I believe they're supposed to be completely removed.

There is currently no way to opt out or return back to the previous layout.

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[JaKrispy2003]

I’m not loving the “experiment” at all. It completely removes a great experience and it makes the app so much worse. I thinks. Lot of people agree, it’s worse when you can’t even see the likes. It should be reverted or at least made into a toggle-able option in settings.

[user-removed]

As of yesterday, there are no hearts AT ALL. Anywhere. if i click on whatever song is now playing, i can see a plus sign icon  (+) on the right hand side. This is completely useless, as it does not replace the functionality of the heart. It is a completely different feature that does something completely different than the heart feature. You cant even see the (+) sign feature unless you click play and then click now playing. Again, i still have no idea which songs i know/like compared to songs i have never heard. If i am staring at a list of 500 songs, they all look completely the same (untouched).

example of why this is going to make me stop paying spotify: if i like a song and i want to hear it later, i have two options: 1. memorize the title and artwork and hope i can remember next time i want to hear the song or 2. Add the song to a playlist. I now have to stop what im doing, click the plus (+) sign, create a new playlist or add the song to another playlist. If i want to hear that song again, i have to go search my playlists. 

i do not put every song that i like on a playlist.  I don’t have time to do that nor do i want to. I do not have any other digital forms of entertainment/streaming services that do not allow me to use a thumbs up/down sort of feature. 

[user-removed]

Is there any way you can make spotify remove this feature for me and revert back to the spotify i was using a week ago? If i cancel my subscription and start completely over, will i get the heart back? I cannot use the app if it stays like this permanently 

p.s. the photo below is what my spotify looks like now. Just billions of songs that i may or may not have heard before who knows