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

[normandrobert62]

The "heart" 💚 feature as it was before provided an easy way to create a new list via "Liked Songs" with **visual indication of which songs are already liked** and with the fewest clicks amongst other benefits noted by others. This change throws power users under the bus. A UI team should almost never remove features that allow quicker operations for power users. I think the fee structure results heavy users being less valuable.

The new feature which in the case of lists created by others shows whether that song is in one of my lists is useful but something far more useful was thrown out with this latest change. The check mark lightning up as I hover over songs conveys NOTHING. The "like" keyboard shortcut may add or remove a song with only a brief popup to notify me of what it did but I don't know what this action will be a priori !  Kinda shocking that these changes made it through betas and management signed off on it. You have just one piece SW (mostly with OS variations) to deliver your product. This should be a comp sci bad UI changes case study.

[KingDoubt]

I have to add another comment here. I've been trying to work out what's going on, like "I must be thick as doggy doo-doo! ... it's not you, it's me! ... there must be something I'm missing!" etc...

Here's a simple list (a seed list*) that I created a while back. It has one song that I seeded and consider a banger (Voices by ABSOLUTE.) It looks like this when viewing the list:

Green: The banger. Exists in 4 lists ... This list (above), liked songs, and two other lists.

Red: Others tunes I've added (Not in ANY other list, apart from the one above!).

Purple: Absolutely No idea what's going on.

Ok, so that sucks beyond all suckage. I'm at a loss for words (but I'll continue anyway 😃). 

Let's head over to ABOSLUTE.'s page:

Ok, this says:

Red: I've liked one song ... MADELINE - ABSOLUTE. Remix

Blue: Voices .. Apparently not liked.

Let's investigate ...

Right click the green tick on MADELINE - ABSOLUTE. Remix = Added to my "inbox" list (1st stage listening list)

Let's look at the actual liked song:

Click on this ^

Turns out it's Voices ... weird, not the liked tune in the artist list, and still no tick mark on the actual tune.

Let's take a look at the original list again, and click the green tick to see what lists it's in:

I have no clue what is going on anymore. Something has changed, and something has broken a simple thing that everyone has used for donkeys years; it now seems completely broken!

If I'm being thick here, please, please help me!!!

I don't usually post much, I roll with the punches and just get on with it, but this change has completely ruined everything that made Spotify the GOAT. I hope, I pray, that it's just a whacky bug because this has critically impacted my personal enjoyment of the service like no other change before it.

* Don't wanna preach to those that know ... A seed list is a tune that you add to a single list and see what is recommended (based on what's in this playlist), then you can go through those recommended tunes (slightly more of a chore than it should be, as it's limited to 10 tunes and doesn't auto-roll to the next 10 ... you have to select "refresh" (lol, dumb), but it works for the most part (and I like it). Tip 1: You will start getting recommendations for the same artist(s) already in the list, which is mostly unhelpful, mixed with other new artists, which is much more helpful. Add a few, 4 or more. The more the better, once you've drudged through the 10-by-10 list and added said 4 or more, you can the change to what I can end-list-continuation ... play the last tune in the list, then select next >... magically, this will auto-play a bunch of tunes, some from your own collection but some new also, different to the recommendations.

P.s. I'm not affiliated in any way with ABSOLUTE., I just really liked a recent tune of his. I have many examples of the same issue across multiple songs/tunes/bangers. 

Peace Out X

[the_observer]

Just adding to the voices, Spotify you've really messed up taking this away. I don't care whether it's a heart or a tick or whatever but I need to be able to differentiate between songs in a playlist. I curate playlists and in the process I need a way of marking which ones I'm happy with their placement and which ones I still playing around with. Now there is nothing visible from the playlist view to identify. Some kind of tagging system would be amazing but if we can't have that then PLEASE give us the hearts back!! 

[murlough23]

+1 to this idea. I can understand tinkering with functionality with the intent of adding new user-friendly features. I cannot understand the logic behind taking away a user-friendly feature that nobody was actively complaining about disliking. Why make it take more steps to like a song? Why make it more opaque to see which songs from an album or playlist we've already liked? Why take something that was once intuitive and make it... well, NOT?

My typical use of the Like button has been when I'm going through an album for the first few times, and I want to keep track of the songs that standout to me the most. EVENTUALLY I will put my favorite of those songs on a playlist. But while I'm still evaluating, I need to see at a glance which ones I've liked, and that gives me an overall view of how strongly I feel about the album. I realize that I can go to the list of songs I liked by an artist, and scroll through it to see the individual songs I liked (which appear to be grouped by album), but that's a few extra steps and it isn't at all intuitive.

[agravlisav]

+1 here
guys, please roll back the changes made to "heart button".
I'm talking on behalf of a small group of my friends, music lovers, Spotify fans. and for the first time in history we are disappointed by the change suggested and made. make it at least optional. this is not for everybody

please please please
we really appreciate Spotify

[agravlisav]

Spotify, the community is burning on this. Could you please at least communicate based on what this decision has been made? Were there really customer requests to have the "heart button" removed? "liking" is very different to organizing playlists. advanced playlist management is good, but this is not "liking". please bring back the change that's being discussed here and there or at least comment on this.

[jgerminario]

Looks like they just removed it on desktop too 😕

[jgerminario]

Spotify people, if anyone actually reads this feedback, note that this already got 700+ votes even before it was removed on desktop. https://community.spotify.com/t5/Live-Ideas/Mobile-Browse-Bring-back-like-indicator-on-album-playli... Now that desktop hearts are removed you're getting a torrent of negative feedback.

If it's part of your growth strategy to lose all your long-term users, then feel free to ignore. But this seems like a real questionable UX decision.

[ericwfilson]

Use Case: Create a playlist, load up some albums that I've liked some songs on.  I want to listen to the whole albums and find more songs I'll like.  Go for a run and listen.  It used to be that when I liked a tune, I'd click like.  Mission accomplished. 

Post this update: Mid-run, I have to open the screen, click the check mark, then scroll down until I reach "Liked Songs" (sometimes two or more swipes), then click "Liked Songs", then click "Done."  Don't forget to hit "Done" or it was all for nothing.

One press becomes 6 or more.  And when I look at the playlist on my desktop... I STILL can't see which songs I liked while I was out on my run and which ones I might have missed. If I go to the album, they are ALL checked (because they're all on some playlist). 

Honestly, this is probably the worst UX change I've ever seen. In spite of all the work it would entail, I may very well leave the platform.  Very disappointed.

[shane_b]

THIS IS A TERRIBLE UPDATE GUYS!

While the update adds some nice new features, such as being able to simultaneously add a song to multiple playlists or easily check which playlists a particular song is already in, it removes a MAJOR piece of functionality and the fact that you can't view the songs you've liked on an album or playlist seems like a HUGE oversight.

Have a I liked the song? Or is it just in one of my playlists? There's no way to be sure without clicking on each track with a green tick to check one by one. This adds so much more time to this process and for me personally as well as people I've spoken to, it massively reduces the functionality of the site and reasons we love Spotify. Mobile app, fine, no biggie, but you need to be able to easily view which songs you have liked on album pages and playlists from the Desktop app like any other music service.

One solution would be to keep both the heart and the + symbol side by side. Why can't the two be separated? One is to Like the song, the other is to add or remove it from a playlist. Very simple. Best of both worlds.

Otherwise, Spotify should ONLY display the green tick for songs that have been Liked and favourited, not songs that are in one of my hundred or more playlists. Why do I need to know at a glance if songs are in one of my playlists? I don't! I can easily click on the + button for that information if desired.

Listen to the community as to the ways that people use Spotify. We use the Like or Heart button to easily tag, sort, identify and listen to our most favourite tracks at a glance. You have effectively rendered this key feature impossible with this update for people that use their own playlists, as there is now no difference between songs in a playlist, your library, or Liked songs.