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

[shape5]

@thetinabear: I just wanted to point out something w/ this which you probably overlooked.  As I explained in my previous comment on pg. 8: The “like” and “add to playlist” functions and icons also need to be independent of each other, b/c not all songs you add to playlists are necessarily ones you also want to heart.  This makes the “like” option pointless and unnecessary if every song added to a playlist is also liked.

One of many common examples would be that you want to make ongoing playlists for relatives that you know they would like, but are not songs you necessarily like or want to listen to.  So you add them to playlists, but not to Liked Songs.  Or you want to keep playlists of collected or archived songs from various locations, such as Spotify playlists, other people’s playlists, or new albums which you have not have time to listen to – so it makes no sense to be forced to Like these songs just b/c you added them to playlists.  There are numerous reasons for wanting to keep these independent and clearly distinguished from one another.

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@shape5

Yep. Being able to tag a track with some kind of symbol (heart, star, thumbs-up, whatever) that is visible everywhere; both outside and inside of my library, is a must have. The green checkmark that tells me if a song is already in my library is a great feature, but I still need an ADDITIONAL symbol that is ALWAYS visible on a song. I don't even care if tagging a song (with a heart) puts it in a playlist or not ... as long as there is a way to easily clear out all of them.

[mode3517]

Adding a song to a playlist and liking a song are fundamentally different things! Whether a song is on one of my playlists or not is secondary to whether or not I've liked the track. Taking away the ability to differentiate between playlisted and liked was a mistake! If I'm driving and I'm listening to one of my created playlists, but then I want to like a track, I have to press the + button, look for the liked playlist, then look down and press save.  Bring the heart button back so I can just hit it once and be done with it... and not have a car accident.

But this should be brought back in the desktop app as well!
I need to be able to look at a playlist I've made, and visually identify the liked tracks at a glance to I can add them to other playlists. But don't take away the + and checkmark feature that identifies songs as playlisted. Just make a standalone column for hearts in the playlist/album view. 

I've been a premium user since 2012, and this past year since this terrible "feature" was put in place, I've barely used Spotify at all. Adding tracks to my liked playlist used to be a joy to do, which would motivate me to keep looking for more music on your platform.Now it's a pain in the neck. So I've been using BC, because I've purchased so much music there over the years, and it has always been a great source to easily find and (fairly) support fledging artists on the cutting edge of music. And now their mobile app has playlists. 

[PurpleFan]

now this "amazing" changed **bleep**ed up the Apple Watch app too.

i can't change any playlists!

[dreikap]

mind-boggingly stupid to remove the heart button

[mdavidford]

Here's an extra example of how much of a mess the new UI is: if (in the web app, at least) you are listening to songs on your Liked Songs list, and you decide you want to add a song to a playlist, you do the obvious thing and click the new '+' button - instead of opening the playlists dialog, this adds it to the Liked Songs. Which it was already in. And is now in twice...

It appears that when you're in this view the button defaults to 'add to Liked Songs', and only changes to 'add to Playlist' if the track is already in another playlist. How does that make any sense?

It does give the impression that no-one involved in the design and development of this actually bothered to use it before it was put live.

[gkswltn11]

But I'm kinda confused by all the hate comments - maybe I wasn't putting so much meaning on the heart button - isn't it basically the same as the current + button? Hearted songs on the playlist are equivalent to the check-marked songs on the playlist, I thought? Also aren't the "Liked Songs" list the songs you hearted previously?

[dreikap]

Can anyone recommend good alternatives to Spotify?

[Reiszecke]

@fujitsoo 

> isn't it basically the same as the current + button?

Entirely different things

> Hearted songs on the playlist are equivalent to the check-marked songs on the playlist, I thought?

That's the problem, all of my songs in playlists are checked. It's obvious that songs in my playlists are - well - in my playlists. What's not obvious is whether I have liked these songs

> Also aren't the "Liked Songs" list the songs you hearted previously?

Yes and that feature is useless now because we have no way of knowing whether we have liked a long without clicking it.

[Lanciano007]

@fujitsoo. First I want to say I'm not a hater. I'm a disappointed user. I hope you understand. I share my experiences... I give feedback and collect feedback.

https://community.spotify.com/t5/Live-Ideas/Bring-back-the-heart-button/idc-p/5907928#M283321

Yes, I think the two biggest issues are:

First Issue:

*liked songs are not visible anymore.

This 'group' uses the like button to make a difference between the bangers, and the good songs, in their made playlists.

Second issue:

*it's not possible to like a song by one step, anymore. A quick touch on the like button. 

This 'group' wants the like button back, because of safety, time wasting and other reasons.

Mainly the users talk about both issues in the same comment, and some give also other experiences, bugs, ideas, issues and reasons in their comments.