Favorite song icons not showing in my playlists

[Tom7777777]

I run the Windows desktop application of Spotify. It looks like today the small green icon has changed that shows that you have added a song to your favorite songs. In this playlist and in all my others though, those icons do not show anymore:

This is my favorite songs playlist. As you can see, there are no green icons anymore showing. Instead when I hover over a song I can mark it as favorite - although it already is marked! When I go to the albums, the songs are shown as favorited there, but in all my playlist AND the favorite playlist, those icons are missing since today.

Also when I play a song from my favorite list, it shows with a green icon in the left bottom, yet it does not show in the list itself.

[Puglifiled]

Exactly. I've been using "like" the same way. Doesn't matter if the mark is a heart, or check, or whatever. They could be called liked tracks, or tagged tracks, or whatever.

I'm also looking into moving our family plan to something else. I will probably use "Tune My Music" to transfer my Spotify library.

coke1989, we should do breakfast at Milliways someday, my treat.

Vote for "Additional Green Checkmark for Same Song on OTHER Albums"

[originalulix]

Horrible change, completely f's up my sorting technique. 

Seriously Spotify. Instead of doing this, you should have given us the option to give 1-3 hearts instead of just one, to differentiate our library even more. At least take this horrible change back, please. 

[originalulix]

Same. I have several levels on "how much I like" a song on Spotify, and the like Button let me differentiate a bit more. This completely destroys my normal sorting technique, and makes things a lot more complicated for me. 

[originalulix]

BTW: The new Plus-Button is fine. Just don't away the Like Button for it. 

[andynista]

Absolute disaster! This has completely ruined the way I sort my playlists. I save songs I MAY like in a playlist to go through them later. This is no longer possible. I know most people just listen to generic curated playlists, but please don't forget that you have some serious old school music nerds among your premium users. I want MORE ways to personalize the listening experience, not less. Bring this back NOW or I will have no choice but to give my money to someone else.

[originalulix]

By the way guys: You can uninstall Spotify and install an older version. It works (I use 1.2.5.1006 now). 
I still have to find out how to stop it from automatically updating though. 

[Puglifiled]

I never download anything, so THIS never even occurred to me, but it's a brilliant workaround. Just set the "Liked Songs" playlist as downloaded, so that the DOWNLOADED SYMBOL functions as a LIKED SYMBOL. This way, when you add or remove a track from Liked Songs, the downloaded symbol appears or disappears, dynamically, just like the old heart.

So, there is still a simple way to tag tracks for the purpose of building playlists. It's a tad clunky, but still works well enough, I think. Does anyone else agree that this is an acceptable "solution"? I can see this not being a good solution for people who download a lot.

Also, any playlist could function this way; meaning, it doesn't have to be the "Liked Songs" playlist. However, "Liked Songs" has the convenient keyboard shortcut of Alt+Shift+S. So, I'll probably continue using it.

[Mallta]

I too have been organizing my playlists in the manner repeatedly mentioned in this topic.
I need a way to visually see my favorites at a glance.

[andynista]

RE: Puglify: This is actually an acceptable workaround. Good idea, thanks for sharing!

[bolero700813]

I work on playlists by sorting songs and putting songs from one playlist to another playlist (most of the times on desktop app).
While listening to playlists I used to mark songs as "liked" temporarily for further use. This was an easy way because only one mouse click was required. After finishing listening to the playlists I used these marks to do some further action, e.g. moving the songs to another playlist.
Removing the checked symbol makes it much harder for me to work. So please bring back seeing liked songs in a playlist at a glance!

Additionally it would be helpful adding temporary categories at a simple mouse click, only visible for the user. Let's say "green", "yellow", "red", "blue". That's it. Meaning is up to the user.

By the way: Please provide a search for results that say if a song is on a liked or own playlist and which playlists do contain this song. Just show the names of the playlists and where to find them inside my personal tree.

[BRC-Lounge]

Horrible change. I use the LIKE HEART for SORTING on the fly. Now everything is in the dark. I have thousands of songs and sometimes I remove and add them using the heart. I could just look at a list and know what to do. Now I have to check every stupid plus sign manually?!?!? THIS MAKES NO SENSE.

[Puglifiled]

It's as if "they" are trying to say "Hey, if you have a track/song in ANY of your personal playlists, obviously you like it, so we're planning to phase out Liked Songs." Which is fine with me, actually.

You see, I never listen to my Liked Songs playlist, but being able to TAG tracks (with a "tagged tracks playlist" that can be easily cleared) for the purpose of building playlists is AN ABSOLUTE MUST for my Spotify "experience". The symbol can be anything as far as I'm concerned ... heart ... checkmark ... thumbs-up ... star (like starred emails in gmail) ... whatever.

So, by eliminating the heart (tag) visibility, I'm falling back to the downloaded symbol, instead. Congrats Spotify ... I'm now pointlessly downloading (and later un-downloading) dozens (sometimes hundreds) of tracks at a time. This really sucks.

[Puglifiled]

Vote for "Starred Songs" playlist that uses star symbols.

Why?

Because there's a VARIETY of reasons for tagging tracks/songs other than just "liking" them. So, a more generic term and symbol, to me, makes more sense.

Vote for "Additional Green Checkmark for Same Song on OTHER Albums"

[CrazyCoconut]

When going through a playlist I used to be able to like a song from the list and then it would show a green check showing that it was in my liked songs. Since the new window allowing to choose where to put the song in was introduced, it will not show the green check mark even if I chose the default like songs playlist. Before clicking the toggle button would automatically just add to the liked songs list.

[mode3517]

Plan

Premium

Country

USA

Device

Windows Laptop, Mobile

Operating System

Windows 10/11, Android

My Question or Issue

Not clear when this changed but scrolling through an artist's discography playlist I made, we can no longer see at a glance which tracks we liked. When we mouse over all we see is a checkmark that tells us it's in a playlist, obviously the one I'm looking at.
I like to be able to filter down the discography playlist slowly by numerous playthroughs and choosing what to keep and what to lose. I can't keep jumping between my playlist and my Liked Songs playlist. 
This could be remedied by having a column that shows whether it's a liked track or not. Whether the song is on one of my playlists isn't really pertinent to my use case.

[mike-gallagher]

others here have already said what i would have said (favouriting a song and adding a song to a playlist are not the same thing – they serve quite distinct functions; the visual cues for which things are in each category are now virtually impossible to distinguish; and the way that you interact with these two functions is now more complex and cumbersome). i'm just commenting here to add another post to make this thread bigger in the hope that this generates attention with spotify's feedback and/or design and research teams (because i can only like each post one time, when really i'd like to add +100 to most of the above posts). 

[mike-gallagher]

this is exactly what i do and completely agree that this changes breaks the whole thing. (edit: ugh, didn't realise these don't thread. this reply was in response to andynista.)

[4wk_]

Since a recent update, this feature was removed, and it's really a shame.
I've buy a premium user since 2011, using Spotify 8h+ on weekdays, and this regression makes me so sad about the app.

Before, when I was in a playlist "ABC" containing 50 songs for example, I was able to "LIKE" a song: the song was added to the "Liked songs" playlist, and on playlist "ABC" the song was displayed with a heart.

Now, I cannot see which songs of a playlist "ABC" are actually "liked". In other words, we cannot see anymore "liked songs" in other playlists without clicking on every songs....

This is a real issue to me and other people, as described in many other Spotify discussions. It's a regression, with a lot of drawbacks.

Some examples:

1) In a big playlist you cannot see songs you added as "liked", so you cannot keep track of what did you actually like.

Real world example: I usually listen with Shuffle on big playlists (500 songs) like "Hellfest 2024" with all the line up; for weeks I was liking songs inside the playlist, and now I cannot see quickly which songs I've liked. I have to click on EVERY SINGLE SONG to check if it is actually added to "lIked songs".

2) Open a Spotify-made playlist: all songs are ticked "green add to playlist", even if this is not one of my playlist.
Real world example: Home > Best of Artists > Offsprings. Again, in this "Spotify-made" playlist, I cannot see which track I've already "liked" before, because all tracks are already marks, I don't understand why.

Please consider bringing "liked songs" back, it was not a regular playlist before, it was a nice system.

[Lord_Dominus]

Hi Yordan,

You don't seem to understand. It would be fine if we saw a checkmark indicating the song is already saved in one of my playlists or Liked Songs, however this is simply not working at the moment. When I go to an artists page, none of the songs I have in my playlists show the checkmark unfortunately. I think this is clearly a bug, but nobody seems to be interested in investigated the issue and I've completely stopped using Spotify as a result.

[Lord_Dominus]

I am using the latest version of Spotify on Windows; updated from the Microsoft Store today. Checkboxes simply do not appear for songs I've liked or put in my playlists. I've attached screenshots as examples. In the last screen shot, this playlist contains ONLY liked songs and yet there is not a single checkbox in the entire playlist.