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.

[RA42]

It is so confusing not having a like button but you have a liked playlist 

[nimareq]

This feels like a joke. It seems that instead of fixing the long lasting issue with missing like button on duplicit songs, they remove the like feature altogether! 😂😂🤣🤣 I am crying laughing, but it's not funny.

[kesgel]

This is the first time I have had to speak out here in the community, and I will start with:  WHY?

Why did you have to change the "liked songs" button? I used it as way to organize (bookmark) hundreds and hundreds of songs, the way it is right now REALLY scr*wed up the app, I simply can't make playlists any longer. It's messy, counterintuitive! 

To me it's a "how can we make the app worse" type of idea. 

[bosi]

The crucial characteristic of the heart button is its availability. It is a generic multitool to tag a song, maybe not always because I like it but just to mark it for later. One button, one click, easily accessed, even in the car.

It now takes three clicks to achieve the same thing, so it has become completely unusable.

It is also fundamental to see those marks in the playlist listing, without having to open a menu.

Removing the heart button was a big mistake.

There is plenty of space in the now-playing view to add a new button for adding songs to playlists, but the three dots up/right does well for that so no change is really needed.

If you want to do something useful, add generic tags to songs, searchable.

[Nevibya]

ALL songs in my playlist have the useless green checkmark... because I'm looking at the playlist. Completely useless. 

Heart icon let me easily see my favorite songs in my big playlists. By removing it you've crippled your own app and for what? Literally what are you getting from it aside from making your app less usable and more user unfriendly. Spotify seems completely out of touch with their own user base, it's ridiculous. 

[Nevibya]

ALL songs in a playlist have the useless green checkmark. It tells me nothing. 

Distinguishing Liked songs in a playlist and adding favorite songs into Liked songs is a core feature that Spotify itself led it's users to do. now you've removed a core feature used for years with zero added benefit.
Do some of your devs have their own paying userbase, or what exactly is going on? 

[Ludwig2345]

Yes, please.

I love the heart button and use it a lot (as of now, I have 5630 liked songs), and I pretty much only use the "liked songs" playlist to listen to music. Sometimes I put it on shuffle to hear a more varied selection (though not too varied since shuffle kinda sucks), and sometimes I just play from the top down to hear music I like a lot right now.

When I find something in that list that I haven't listened to in a while, I un-heart the song and heart it again to move it to the top of the playlist. I often do that many times a day, and it took just two clicks.

Now, it takes 4 or 6 clicks depending on whether the song is in another playlist.

Recently the Android app got the same terrible change, and I had hoped that at least the desktop app would have been spared in this slaughter, but alas it was not so.

[mattgwhat]

Completely agree. I use playlists to try songs out all the time - but even in those playlists I can't see what other playlists I've added them too until I click the check icon!! This also frustrates me literally every time I use Spotify now and I've been using it daily for over 10 years! At least let me opt out of the new design 😞

[monstertrucker]

Hey just adding my feedback to the pile here because the new UX for liking a song is anti-user.  at least, it breaks the functionality of how I use spotify.

I want a button to press when I am listening and like the song I'm listening to.  I need that flag on a song because I often dump albums into a big playlist to listen through later.  I listen to things a few times through and then remove them from the playlist when it's time for me to move onto the next thing.

With the most recent desktop client update, I can no longer tell at a glance which songs I've liked.  I can't even like songs from the playlist view... this feature has become an "add to other playlist" feature, which I almost never use (when I did want to, right click > add to playlist... was fine, so was dragging it to another playlist).  *edit*: i found it. it's now "save to your liked songs" behind an invisible triple dot all the way on the right of the song row on the playlist interface. that's *crazy* out of the way for a button i hit multiple times a day.

I don't know who needs to hear this at Spotify, but: LIKING A SONG AND WANTING TO PUT IT ON A PLAYLIST ARE TWO DIFFERENT THINGS.  STOP TRYING TO CRAM THESE TWO DIFFERENT THINGS INTO THE SAME BUTTON.  Liking a song gives me a record of what I like, ideally feeding into any recommendation engines.  This is completely different from wanting to sequence songs for later listening. 

Also, the "like song / add to saved songs / add to playlist" feature seems additionally overloaded by giving me a selection of playlists to add a song to.  This really seems like an edge case: i'm almost never adding the same song to more than one playlist.  As a guy who makes a lot of playlists (at least, my Spotify Wrapped for this year told me so!), here's what that flow looks like:

I listen through my listen queue.  I like some songs.  Some of them I move over to another playlist that's like a holding tank for songs I really like.  At some point, I'll listen to that and start moving songs that fit with each other on that to a new playlist, and that becomes a playlist I share with friends and listen to when I'm walking around town and stuff.  Very rarely have I felt the need to add one song to more than one playlist at the same time. 

In conclusion: this whole thing is broken.  It works best for me, someone who is constantly engaging with Spotify, when "I like this song" and "I want to listen to this song later" are two completely separate buttons.  I'm going to press the "I like this song" button more.  I want it to be shaped like a heart because that's more meaningful to me than a plus sign.  I'm perfectly happy if "I want to listen to this song later" is behind a triple dot.  Please hire someone to paint the following on a wall in the office of your UX people: LIKING A SONG IS DIFFERENT FROM WANTING TO ADD IT TO A PLAYLIST.  If there is one person who keeps being indecisive about this, as it seems to change every other year or so, feel free to hire a tattoo artist for them and get them inked so they will never forget because every time you "fix" this, you break it more.

[SvenskNavi]

Agreed. The new "Added to a Playlist" checkmark in place of a heart is absolutely useless, especially when you're looking at the tracks INSIDE A PLAYLIST. At that point it's a tautology - every single song in your playlist is going to be checked off as being in a playlist.