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

[aaronclawrence]

I do occasionally use playlists, but 99% of my interactions are just liking or unliking a song. So for 99% of my interactions, I have to do 3x as many clicks in 3 different places. Such fine user interface design.

[shape5]

Removing the heart icon offers no benefit to playlist management either, but rather the opposite since you can no longer see which songs in a playlist are liked (as I mentioned above).

[vinskeet]

Yes! Bring it back!

I use it to sort my favorites in my playlists for when I create my DJ sets!! Please bring it back 🙂

[yidamala]

A SUGGESTED BEHAVIOUR FOR THE LIKED/PLAYLIST ISSUE HERE

I hope this might address most of the issues people have raised - I haven't read all the comments, just thought about my own experience.

I only just noticed the Liked/Playlist change, apparently because it was only recently made to the web player, even though it has been in the pipeline for some time now. I use the Android app too but generally I only update apps manually once in a while.

I had written a long answer already based on the behaviour in the web player, but to be sure I thought I'd check what the Android app does now so I updated it, and I also ended up looking at some different scenarios so I've had to rewrite a little (and I hope it's worthwhile because it has taken quite some time)

This issue is called "Return the Like Button", but maybe it should be "Bring Back the Green Heart and be properly sensitive to context!", because:

• It seems that for many (most?) people the big issue is that you can no longer distinguish a Liked track from one which is in a regular playlist - and also for me that's the main problem.
• The behaviour isn't sensitive (enough) to context

Personally, I have mixed feelings about the change overall, for the following reasons:

• (-) A bug? When you're in one of your playlists (on web player and presumably computer app too?) the button which shows up on mouse-over of a track can be either Add to Liked or Add to Playlist and when I click it I can't see why there should be a difference; both sort of tracks are in the current playlist and nothing else...
• (-) You can't easily tell whether you've liked something as opposed to put it in a regular playlist (or if it's both)
• (?) It's still just as easy to add to Liked Songs... so long as the track isn't already in one of your playlists
• (-) Removing a track from Liked Songs now takes 3 clicks instead of one (in web interface anyway, looks like that's the case on mobile too).
• (+) Adding something to a playlist is now a little easier than going to the add-to-playlist option via "..." on the track list, and much easier if it's already Liked/in a playlist.
• (+) You can remove the currently playing track from any playlist it's in, including the one you're currently listening to, very easily. Until now I have maintained a "remove from playlists" playlist so I can deal with that in batches, because even if you were playing the playlist a track was in, you had to actually find it in the playlist in order to remove it. Removing from all playlists (something I once asked for) is also made easy by the "Clear All" button

If we look closely we can see that there are really two issues here:

• What that icon (in whichever state) reflects
• What clicking on it does

I think that the following might be a good compromise. It's based on the web player (and computer app?) format, but might be somewhat relevant to mobile apps too.

• The click action should continue to behave as it does now, i.e. according to the action offered in the status display...
  • If Add to Liked, a click would add it to Liked (and offer "Change" to go to the selection display)
  • otherwise, a click would take you to the new playlist selection display, without changing anything
• The status display/offered action needs enhancement:
  • The heart DISPLAY should be restored with the behaviour it had before - if a track is in Liked, show a heart. (Action: Add to Playlist)
  • If a track is in Liked and also in another playlist, show the heart, but with a checkmark in it. (Action: Add to Playlist, but named Playlists - Add/Remove)
  • If a track is not Liked but is in a playlist, show the check. The only place the check should be suppressed is when showing the user's playlists and the track is ONLY in the playlist displayed (so you can tell if it's in another playlist too). (Action: Add to Playlist, but named Playlists - Add/Remove) [EDITED TO ADD: Since currently the icon is shown on mouse-over, in such a case the icon shouldn't be the green check as that would be confusing - a green check says "in another playlist". Instead, show a check mark icon but in white - sort of like the plus - rather than green. Would be great if in the player it would work the same way; white check if only in the current (playing) playlist, otherwise green check+/heart, or plus, as appropriate]
  • If a track is not Liked and not in a playlist, show the plus, or maybe the previous white heart outline (Action: Add to Liked Songs)
• Basically, once a track is in a playlist, Liked is treated like any playlist, but if a track is not in any playlist, the default destination is Liked

[mdavidford]

At the very least, have distinct states of the button to distinguish between liked, and added to playlist but not liked.

[q9qg7fkyxe71swtgupyf]

bring back the heart icon likes, it's hard to find songs on a playlist which is 100 songs or more.

[03-ckyvl_ivh5]

Everything correct, Spotify. Not only do you eliminate features that no one asks to eliminate, for example hearts, you ignore the opinion of your users, and you also increase the price. It is a price in HIFI, something that your sound does not have. We take note.

[RaulPPereyra]

This new system is a mess and it's absolutely annoying that it's evidently implemented to make us spend more time in the app. It's disrespectful to waste paying customers' time like that. I use it all day everyday and have a library of over 1300 songs. I won't be giving three taps each time I want to unlike a song, I've been using the desktop version's backspace feature as a temporal workaround but seriously, it's been a problem since january and nothing has been done yet?

Supporting Baitijs' comment I will also be leaving the app if nothing is done about it. If this goes on at the end of april I will move on after being an 8 year user because I don't support these practices. 

[Lanciano007]

The green dot system doesn't even work!!!

If someone copies my entire playlist there's always around 10% of the songs that don't have the green dot..I have all these songs in my playlists. SO WHY THERE IS NO GREEN DOT??? This totally sucks and I told, explained, and I have send some artists that don't get the green dot, etc. to Spotify already a month ago...

I told them how to see this bug/error with their own eyes but they don't read my explaination well or they act as they are the dumbest person in the world and let me explain it for the 3rd time even with all the proof they can easily experience the same problem...

It's frustrating that so many artists don't get the green dot. Fix the database. Worthless system!

It happens so many times i listen to a song but i don't see the green dot, that supposed to be there because I have the song in my Playlists. I have to check all those songs all the time now...And guess what..They are in my playlists, exactly the same versions from the same albums. But no green dot!? Green dots have their own mind and I never experienced this with the hearts.

In your Spotify desktop browser you can see your TOP TRACKS THIS MONTH list of songs...they are all in my playlists...that's why they appear to be in my monthly TOP track list, but since the hearts had to replaced for the green dots, always 5-10% don't have the green dot! When I try to put these songs in my playlists, where they belong, Spotify tells me they are already added. That's what I say! But the song doesn't get the green dot. Fix this Bug!

Why we have the same option 2 times in one line...? I use desktop app, and with each song I have a double option to add songs to playlists...WHY IS THERE A DOUBLE OPTION FOR THAT and NO OPTION TO SEE MY LIKES THAT MAKES IT USELESS NOW TO LIKE SONGS??? The Green dot and the three grey dots are not even a centimeter distance from eachother.

Another crazy thing is that Spotify moved the back arrow on desktop and browser app. Now we have to scroll your cursor over our back arrow from Your Library and ignore it, to go the the far left corner if we want to go a page back in our Playlist...HOW MESSY, CONFUSING AND UNLOGICAL! Put the Library back arrow at the left side and put the back arrow for Playlist we are playing, back where it was.

I have not 'liked' any song since december 2023 when the hearts dissappeared. It's useless now and I don;t understand the purpose of 'liking' songs. (three frustrating steps and it has not any positive effect...we can't see our likes!)

Make sure things work well, before you take away the good things...

Bring back the heart...!

[Lanciano007]

Maybe someone can create a Browser (add-on) Extension or something, to make the Spotify Hearts come back? Similar to the extension that brought back the Youtube like/dislike buttons when Youtube took it away...

Thousands, maybe millions of users will use this extension...100% guaranteed. Not like the worthless and frustrating 95% guarantee that we are getting now with the green dots NOT showing all the songs we have in our playlists.