Liked songs not showing as liked on artist page (ALL DEVICES, NOT JUST DESKTOP)

[austinthetaco]

Plan

Premium

Country

USA

Device

LITERALLY HAPPENING ON EVERY DEVICE I OWN (windows 10, android, ios, macbook)

My Question or Issue

Some artists not showing the liked tracks that are sitting in my liked tracks. Yes i've made sure it's not another album/etc. 

[Novy]

Hey @henryvoll, 

Thanks for your reply and apologies for the confusion. 

Could you send over the Spotify version you're currently running? 

We'll be on the lookout.

[henryvoll]

I appreciate the reply, but are you reading what I am saying?
Please READ the message. Don't just give a standard copy and paste reply.

This isn't a "fault" with my spotify. Try your own. It is the same for everyone.

Do your spotify show "liked songs" on the artist page on desktop?
I have asked around with people in all walks of life who all have Spotify and NONE of them have this.

Mobile app does, but not desktop.

Still, my version is
1.1.58.820.g2ae50076-a

And don't say you will be "on the lookout". What does that even mean? Do you own a computer? Start up spotify and click an artist - ANY artist. Do you have access to your liked songs from that artist on the desktop version?

If you do, I will certainly eat my words - but I think you don't because nobody does.

[Novy]

Hi @henryvoll, 

Thank you for getting back to us with this info. 

We've tested this from our end with different Artist profiles using the desktop app, but everything looks good with the Liked songs. 

As @CarlosE mentioned, the app might not recognize Liked songs if new versions have been uploaded and it's possible that this happens to songs that were liked years ago. This is why we'd suggest liking the new version of the song. 

We appreciate you taking the time to share your feedback with us, and will make sure to pass it on to the right folks. 

Have a good one.

[sandceal]

@henryvoll 

That is not what this thread is about 

[tnebesar]

It's 100% a data problem. Spotify definitely knows that the song is the same song even if albums were re-uploaded, etc, but somehow that isn't being recognized by the like feature. It's a bug that Spotify should fix.

[sandceal]

Seriously starting to consider switching to another music service solely because of this issue. Unbelievable such a big, and seemingly simple to solve issue still remains unfixed after years upon years

[mjdb71]

Unbelievable that this is not fixed yet. You are really wondering whether the Spotify development team is using their own product. I don't think so. This is a really annoying issue....

[heheheheheheha]

This is 100% a bug and Spotify's back end should be smart enough to unify all versions of the same exact song. 

But it will never get fixed. Ever. That is because Spotify has 100% of their development power invested in ramming podcasts down your throat. That's all they want to do right now. 

[sandceal]

I'm going to switch to Youtube Music solely because of this issue the moment my subscription runs out. Goodbye Spoopify

[tnebesar]

I'm sure this won't get any response/attention from Spotify, but this is also an issue in app. See screenshots.

I've already liked a song. Here it is in liked songs:

When I check the song info from the artist page, the same song doesn't show as liked:

If I re-like it (in previous screenshot), it then shows as liked twice in my liked songs:

If I unlike one of those songs from my liked songs, both get unliked so Spotify clearly knows they're the same song in the back end. It shouldn't be too difficult of a bug to resolve.

[zjeffer]

Hi,

I've been having this same problem for years, and it's really bugging me. Liked songs do not show as liked in albums, playlists and artist pages.

Thank you @CarlosE for providing a good explanation for why this happens (https://community.spotify.com/t5/Desktop-Windows/Liked-songs-not-showing-as-liked-on-artist-page-ALL...), but I don't understand why it works this way in the first place.

Here's why: I automatically download all my liked songs, and Spotify manages to show which songs have been downloaded without issues. I go to an album, and the songs I liked are "available offline". This works perfectly, in albums, playlists, artist pages, ... However, they don't always show up as "liked", because of the afformentioned "old" tracks not being overwritten.

So Spotify does have the data to show which songs have been downloaded, so it should also have the data to show which songs have been liked (because they are obviously the same), regardless of distributors reuploading the song. So why doesn't it work this way?

[nemkrisz]

This has been an ongoing issue when listening to DJ or an auto generated playlist. I have noticed some of my liked songs shows up as not liked (no green pip/or plus sign next to the song).

See the screenshot below, I have this song in my liked playlist but there is no indicator when the song was played from a playlist. I had to go to my liked songs and search for the song to see if I already liked it.

[jdtemple]

This is happening to me as well. With a very large liked songs collection (23,000+ songs), it is basically impossible to notice that songs are missing, let alone track them down. I just happen to find them by chance.

I just noticed that all Dead Kennedys songs are no longer liked. I have been a DK fan since I was a kid, so there's no way I would have removed those intentionally, or even by accident.

Yet, despite having no liked songs by them, the artist's page still says I have 116 liked songs by them, which is untrue.

See attached.