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

[celineeweenie]

The worst update of spotify was removing the heart button. Now I can't even tell which songs I've liked or not! I say that we should be given the CHOICE to use either the plus feature or the heart button. I find the heart button so much easier to use than the plus button.

The plus button is occasionally useful when I want to add a song to a playlist, but it is wildly annoying to "like" it. Using the heart button was so much easier than this process.

You guys should like/comment on this post as well: 

community.spotify.com/t5/Live-Ideas/Bring-back-the-heart-button/idi-p/5709907 

[milovsorov]

It is appears someone like Fujitsoo made the decision to remove the heart - "I don't use it so surely no one else does". 

Anyway, I was optimistic when I first commented here over three months ago that Spotify would see there were enough people frustrated by this change that they'd reinstate the heart. But they have not listened and it is clear this is not going to change any time soon. So I have just cancelled by premium subscription which I have been paying for a decade.

I can't imagine a company making such a simple mistep as this and not rectifying it. 

I have moved my stuff to Apple Music, as that seemed easy enough and there are even songs I have been craving on Spotify that they don't have due to artists being **bleep** off (I suppose that should have been a red flag), so that is great. I used Playlisty to do it. Small one-off fee of £2.99 to get full functionality, but worth it to move my playlists quickly. Apple Music has a Windows app for the desktop which works well enough with a bit of familarisation. And makes sense for my iPhone anyway.

When the standard "Why are you leaving?" questions came up with Spotify - it was simple. I loved Spotify, and would have carried on using it forever, but they took away the love, literally, and I doubt now I'll ever be back unless Apple Music do something so fundamentally stupid as they did. I strongly recommend people do the same, mayeb they will learn when they lose enough customers.

[user-removed]

I'll give it another month but if they don't reimplement the heart button I will be migrating to Apple Music, after 12 years of using Spotify, and everyone should do the same, they will only listen if they feel it in the pockets. Apple's Music app still functions properly as a music library, unlike the garbage that Spotify has become. It's much less cluttered with useless features that no one asked for while still having the features that Spotify is removing without the consent of its users. It's sad the app that revolutionized music streaming has now one of the worst user experience.

[gkswltn11]

@milovsorov

I understand your frustration but there's literally no reason to be mean.

I just wanted to understand since I knew I was missing something.

I just figured out that the hearted songs no longer appear on the playlist we made. So, the hearted songs were an indication to mark those songs as 'bangers,' and the other songs in the playlist we added were like 'soso' right? And the heart icon was the only way we wanted to differentiate from other possibly 'mediocre' songs that were added to our playlist. Now I get the frustration. 

[user-removed]

Exactly, now you get it.

[Reiszecke]

Last.fm users: Did anyone manage to set up scrobbling for Apple Music on iPhone and MacBook? I'm pretty much done with migrating to Apple Music now but right now the Scrobbling feature is what I haven't figured out yet.

[niemiin]

I´m quite sure there is something behind this move and some other´s Spotify has been doing over the years. Maybe they just don´t want you to create your own playlist but instead feed you with theyir own generated playlists. The new icon thing works quite ok when you listen to Spotify generated lists as the songs you add to your liked songs stand out from the rest. But it doesn´t work at all when you are listening your own lists and want the better songs to stand out from the mediocrity. 

If Spotify wants us to listen to playlists generated by them maybe there should be better playlists available. I don´t understand how it is so hard to find good playlists with for example fresh new rock albums. Everywhere it´s only singles. 

[rs666]

Neimiin, not even sure that works for all scenarios. 

This one must be common. New album launches, you save it as a new playlist. Now whenever you’re listening to a Spotify playlist it will look at first glance that you like the new song already and it may then result in you not adding as a liked track when you do like it. It’s not unlikely that you listen to a handful of songs from new album and decide it’s not for you. Delete the playlist and now you’ve no record of that song you liked.

Another one. You have a collaborative playlist with other people all adding and deleting songs. I’m 99% sure that now your green ticks in Spotify curated playlists may occasionally no longer have anything at all to do with your personal preference for that song.

Its just a shambles. I’m lucky that CarPlay is yet to be affected and so that is when I use Spotify.

[PurpleFan]

now this "amazing" change **bleep**ed up the watch app.

i have 35K in liked songs and i suffer much!

[am8622]

This is the fastest growing issue in all Live ideas (ONLY idea of the Top50 that amassed that many likes within last six months!), and it's even a feature THAT WAS TAKEN AWAY.

BRING BACK THE LIKE SIGN THAT SHOWS ME THE SONGS I LIKED!