Bring back the heart button!

[Urticlaire]

It's SUPER frustrating, we can't see which songs we liked in our own playlists, Bring back the heart button PLEASE, the new way doesn't work AT ALL

[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? 

[Saskia_Lackner]

Please add back the heart/check mark sign. It was really useful.

Also Liked Songs on an Artist's profile is now gone on iPad?

[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.

[smship]

This is a horrible change, not being able to see songs you’ve liked is a nightmare. I have over 30k of them and now I have no idea which are which in playlists and albums.

[Edwin71]

We're thrilled to see that your suggestion is rapidly gaining popularity and we're updating its status to Good Suggestion.
We hope that it will continue to gain support from more users. Thank you for your valuable contribution - we truly appreciate it!

So "you hope that it will continue to gain support from more users" ??? You don't need to hope, you simply need to understand that removing the heart button was a bad move and fix it asap. Why is it so hard to understand that having a separate heart icon/button for the playing song and in playlists is a must have. That's just basic functionality that should live next to a plus button that allows one to:

• add a track to one or more playlists
• have an indication that a track is in one of your own playlists (except the "liked songs" playlist, that is indicated already by the heart icon)
• remove a track from one or more playlists (or move a track to another playlist)

So the new playlist managing feature (the plus button with its features listed above) is a huge step forward (thanks for that Spotify!), but you really should decouple the heart feature (the indication + the behavior) from the plus button! And you don't need user votes for that because this is common sense. Show us that you have the guts to decide for yourself that this needs improvement!

I would love to hear feedback as to why anyone at Spotify thought it would be a good move to collapse both features ...

[Chris_JvR]

Listening music on spotifuggle hasn't been the same since the like button got replaced.

Yeah seeing what songs I have liked was nice, I could live without that but I shouldn't have to.

My real gripe with the latest changes is that I can no longer add duplicate songs to a playlist, this is the only change I really care about. I can probably get over bad UI changes in the name of simplifying user experience to a state of stupidity. At least make it a toggle-able feature for those of us who need the UI as it was. 

I haven't had a good experience for the last few months because of this change.