[All Platforms][Friend Feed] 'Likes and emojis' to a song/artist a friend is listening to

[lachlan_rw]

Similar to at least one idea I saw on this forum,

I thought it would be a cool idea that you could (like instagram live) send a like or an emoji (from a selection) in real time - as your friend is listening to it.

It's a simple addition, that informs your friend their song choice/artist choice/playlist or even album choice is being recognised in a positive manner.

This could happen having an extra tab/button to click that opens up a simple pop up of your choices and then that sends a little discrete pop up to the listener.

See the very poorly created images I made for reference

[Guido]

Updated on 2020-02-20

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[SM0KER]

Cool idea. Many have already been implemented.

[timsons]

Add reacts (emojis like in Facebook under a post/keywords "Nice!" "I like it" "Meh" etc.) that describe your reaction to song that friend is currently listening to. For example, in desktop player, the feed that shows up on the right and is changing live - could be added there.
Friend can have the option to not receive them. So it's entirely optional to use - for example people who don't like emojis can turn it off. Possibly a person can see only the ones he reacted to and the ones he received - cannot be viewing any other people's reacts to other people. Respecting privacy.

Bonus: There can be a react statistic on each song (album/playlist in summary). This also is allowed to be viewed. And can be viewed in non-desktop app. The statistics idea may be impractical.

[Jacob]

Updated on 2021-03-23

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[METALMOTHER]

Hey everyone! Let's get a 'LIKE BUTTON' to let friends know we dig their jams! SO many times I want to like a friend's music choice, but can't because there are no thumbs up, heart, or smiley face buttons. Please like this suggestion or reply to it so we can get this moving for Spotify. I wrote them directly, and they told me to talk to all of you. 

Shared interests breed community and positivity. Let's rock n roll!

Slayer Dar \m/

[zeem]

Hi 👋 My name's Azeem, I'm a product designer that's new to this forum but I've been a general user/fan of Spotify since 2015!

My idea is to have a limited but robust element of user-to-user feedback nested within desktop's friend activity. This would amplify Spotify's native social network ability without compromising its main functionality; audio streaming.

I started building this out to help provide a better case for others who've posted similar ideas in regards to in-app communication—which is something that's been mentioned and debated several times after discontinuation of the inbox feature. If you're interested in my entire process and methodology, you could check it out here!

Otherwise, here's a flow of the final prototype to get a general idea 🤓

And some mockups for better clarity 🙂

I'd love to hear what you all think!

[dav1dph1l1ip]

Fantastic idea. Would love to see a trial of this implemented. I think it can greatly expand spotify.

[nabil_issa99]

Love this idea, I’ve been thinking about features that Spotify could implement like this to create a more social music enjoyment platform and I think this would be perfect.

[Kurrykid]

This is fire

[Kpeterson813]

This is a great way to increase social engagement on Spotify and a way that I think everyone would enjoy. Everyone loves music. Fantastic idea.