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

[itroitnyah]

Such a stupid system. I have a very large library over 9,000 songs long. I have a very organized approach to sorting my music into several different playlists based on genre, then by month, then filter the songs I REALLY like into playlists of their own. The "Liked Songs" and heart button was important because it really helped me keep track of the music I was discovering.

AND

It meant that if I visited an artist page, I could instantly have a playlist of all the songs from that artist that I "liked", without needing to create a separate temporary playlist or skip around their discography of songs I didn't care for. Now I'm apparently supposed to "Just remember" which of the 9,000+ songs in my playlists from months or YEARS ago I did or didn't like. (I keep the ones I didn't like as much as I thought I did on my first listen for the legacy)

Furthermore, it complicates the system for casual listeners who might not bother with maintaining numerous playlists. Now when Joe is at the gym listening to a Spotify generated playlist and likes the song he's listening to, he can't just hit the "Like" button and return to his workout? When Susan is driving to work and hears a song she likes in her morning mix she can't just hit the "Like" button? She has to take her eyes off the road and distract herself further? While Bill is gaming? While Mary is at work? They NEED to add the song TO A SPECIFIC PLAYLIST??? IT IS ABSOLUTELY CRUCIAL THAT THEY FILTER THE SONG IMMEDIATELY, AT THAT VERY MOMENT?!?!?? IT CAN'T WAIT??? 

What if they only have one playlist anyways? What if they really don't bother sorting their songs into playlists in the first place? **bleep** them I guess. Let's needlessly complicate**bleep** even more. I know, maybe when I click on the album cover in the playbar, instead of bringing me to the song in the playlist I'm currently listening to, it should open up an unrelated sidebar of artist information *cough cough*

[Kinito]

It seems hearts are back in Spotify Desktop !

Maybe soon on mobile ? (who knows...)

[Puglifiled]

So, with the return of the hearts, did the green checkmarks disappear?

If so, this means that the most illogical brain on planet Earth, is in control of this User Interface.

Vote for Additional Green Checkmark for Same Song on OTHER Albums

[tw221]

Any updates on this? The idea's almost at two thousand votes and Spotify still chooses to ignore its users.

[Seanlmoody]

Adding my support to this! At the very least, please just make the heart or + button add songs to the library. It’s such a pain when driving and I just want to tell Spotify I like something (when it’s something in a playlist) and be able to come back to it later, but have to click the button then click the liked songs playlist. For me, I keep a playlist of albums that are new that I want to listen to, so I’m not adding song as a time to another playlist as I listen to them.

The heart is the only option when you’re using CarPlay on a built in screen, but that leads to the next issue. If I’m listening to Release Radar or Discover Weekly, the plus sign adds to “Liked Songs” without pulling up the playlist selector, but CarPlay omits the minus sign which I like using, even though I’m not entirely sure it does anything for future suggestions.

So it’s a bit of back and forth between using the phone app (which is the the preferred for me) and using CarPlay (which is fine, just less control there than I’d like).

The best solution I can think of is to have a long press option on the + for adding to playlists (like I think used to be an option) and let the normal press allow you to add a song to your liked songs (and also indicate that you’ve already liked the song, not that it’s in some random playlist in your library, which I’m not sure who this is helping really).

[markeaux]

So after the heart icon disappeared from the desktop client I started using the web client since the hearts still appeared there, well up until today anyway. Now no hearts anywhere, there is not even any indication icon at all in the LIKED folder that any of the 5000+ songs I had previously hearted are liked in any way! Wow. Terrible usability regression.

[codayop]

It's a pathetic marketing ploy and nothing else. Upset a few people. Allow the fever to increase on socials, then they'll put it back. Just like they stopped the random album ridiculousness when Adele kicked off a couple of years ago.

Hate it as it currently is. Hate also hate the fact that you can't just view ALL songs in ALL playlists and play on random. This company cares more about money than giving a **bleep** about the end user.

I've already moved all my playlists over to Tidal. At least I have options over there. 

[03-ckyvl_ivh5]

Spotify is becoming a tremendously irritating program. For someone who subscribed years ago, with the sole intention of listening to music and having a minimally organized music library, Spotify is currently a useless program.
More and more often I open the Apple music app on my Mac, with my local files, organized in a logical, usable, friendly library, and even less Spotify.

Example: smart lists in the Music app on Mac. You have a thousand options. Among them, mark your favorite songs (not with hearts, with stars)... you can even mark as favorites from 1 to 5. Spotify eliminates it. Incredible.

Anyway, we'll see what happens in the coming months, but it doesn't seem like they pay much attention to these comments, yesterday or the day before yesterday, they also removed the hearts from the web version.
The good. There are many good options out there. You just have to make a text, A/B, as Spotify likes.

[nj_williams]

I listen to entire albums at a time, and it takes me a long time to determine if I like any of the songs, so the heart was useful to remind myself which songs I could add to my playlist later. I also think that the removal of the heart has made the liked songs playlist more complicated and might confuse a new user.

[clem99]

I have to agree. I thought it was because I got a new phone until I came here and saw all the complaints. I've been a premium user for years. I create new playlists every 3 months, starting with the newest half of the prior 3 months. So 4 playlists every year going back to 2017 where each song lives in two playlists. And I take the very best of the songs from those quarterly playlists and add them to my Liked list. I never worried about having to "manage" the Liked list before. The quarterly lists I listen to daily, but the Liked List is reserved for long car trips. As far as adding songs to the Liked List,  I already knew if I had already liked a song because it showed up with the heart icon, no matter what playlist it came from. I never questioned if I had already moved it to the Liked list because I could instantly see if it had the heart icon. But now, with no indication, I have to open each individual song and see if it has already been added. This makes management of the playlists and adding songs to the "Liked" list, a task that I need to allocate time for... instead of just doing it intuitively as the songs are playing. This was a major step backward for users that actually USE their playlists and Liked Lists independently. Even if you don't add the one click to Like, please, please, PLEASE bring back the "heart" icon so we know if a song resides in the Liked List. I love Spotify and have discovered some great artists, but someone there didn't think this one through all the way.