RETURN THE LIKE BUTTON

[juzh]

I don't care if this has been submitted a hundred times over, you Spotify devs clearly need to hear it. You should *not* have to go through the effort of finding the "liked songs" playlist, just to add a song to Liked, when you have a ton of playlists. Playlists don't even sort like they used to, it seems almost random which playlists show first despite which ones I interacted with last - but that's not the issue here; it's just yet another downside of the problem at hand.

Please. Please. Please.

Bring back the **bleep** 'liked'/heart button on songs and albums. Having to add liked songs to my liked playlist manually just leads to me adding it to different playlists because it's so **bleep** tedious in the first place. I've been adding songs to playlists and then using the PC version to mass-add songs to Liked because you make it so inconvenient on mobile. This isn't user-friendly in the slightest.

Just, why? Why can't you just bring back the little heart? I thought the point of liked songs was to add songs then and there; not to have to stop in the street to add a song to a playlist because it now takes several seconds to do so. I've been paying for Premium since 2009, and now I'm wondering if you're worth the effort. Fire whoever told you it was a good idea to remove the Liked button, seriously. Fire yourselves for listening, too.

[brynplusplus]

Yes, I want to be able to see what songs in my playlists are already saved to my liked songs!  The little check mark just tells me it's in a playlist, which is meaningless, since I know it's in a playlist -- that's where I'm listening to it!  

[pkscary]

Seriously! Please bring back the heart. I love everything else about what's happening at Spotify - 2023 Wrapped was amazing! But removing the ❤️ button is just a straight up regression.

[rain03]

It's not the button you need, but the display of the heart next to the songs that are in the "Liked songs" playlist.

The new feature of the button saving me 2 extra taps when trying to add to other playlists is a blessing.

[jasonbeyers]

Losing the ability to see liked songs in a playlist, completely cripples how I use spotify.  That binary system of "liked" vs "not liked" is critical to how I organize my music AND play music on the spot.  

This is unrelated to having a heart icon to ADD a song to the liked list.  I was frustrated with that but I've adapted, as there was at least a method to achieve the same thing, even if it is an extra click now.  However I don't know how I can adapt to not seeing liked songs in a playlist.  It really seems there is no way to see this now.

I'm sitting on 40K songs spanning hundreds of playlists, crafted from years of curation, and now I can't distinguish the liked songs. 

Spotify, I desperately need this feature back, SOME kind of indicator in the playlist view.  There is plenty of screen real estate in the playlist view on Mac and PC for this (and honestly, iOS too).   It really doesn't matter what the indicator looks like, whether it is a heart or a checkmark or even tiny dot.  We just need SOMETHING.

I honestly don't know how I can continue using the app in its current state, with how I've organized my music for the last decade.  Please please consider bringing this back, for the playlist view.

[Blueberry]

And now the symbol does not mean anything. Before it was Liked Song. If you follow artist, then all the albums and all the tracks inside every one of them is green mark. - What is the point ? What does that green checkmark (today) tell me ?  No  - I have not liked or added every track of artist A, B or C. I'm not against features and or change, but now this feature does not work.

[Tom_Vandenberghe]

Not only bring it back, enhence it so the algorithm gives you better recommendations! => https://community.spotify.com/t5/Live-Ideas/Enhanced-Like-Button-for-Personalized-Recommendations/id...

[sidewinder03]

"And now the symbol does not mean anything."

This. THIS! This is why I'm here on the community site today, having dealt with this problem on mobile for a while already, and just recently being "updated" on desktop as well. For certain users, the checkmarks mean absolutely nothing now as they exist on every track of every album we listen to. It's just visual noise and I can't distinguish what I liked. It was a simple thing before. 

A few quotes from other responses that resonated with me:

"I'm sitting on 40K songs spanning hundreds of playlists, crafted from years of curation, and now I can't distinguish the liked songs."

"If you follow artist, then all the albums and all the tracks inside every one of them is green mark. - What is the point ? What does that green checkmark (today) tell me ?"

I have to say some of the changes to adding/removing things from a list are great, like the ability to add to multiple lists at a time before clicking Done, which also allows me to easily remove something from a list using the same menu. That's been really useful. 

But the heart. Bring back the heart! 

[bosi]

This is a bad usability bug, AGAIN.

Revert, revert immediately.

[AfraidNine6960]

Thank you Spotify for making it even harder to sort and update personal playlists. That heart button was the last thing that was keeping me sane while creating my playlists. Please bring it back, it cannot be replaced.

[AfraidNine6960]

Bring the heart back and also make it so we can sort by liked songs again within playlists!!