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]

I’ve also been a premium user for about a decade.  This new change makes anything involving likes so much more time-consuming, confusing, and frustrating.

Removing features almost always causes problems for the users who depend on them.  At the very least, add a preference to enable/disable the feature rather than remove it, so that those who use the feature can still enable it if Spotify for whatever reason no longer recognizes its usefulness.

Firstly, there are discrepancies w/ this feature (and others too) between the iPhone and Mac desktop apps, when functionality and layout between all platforms should be consistent with each other in order to maximize universality/usability.  

On both the mobile and desktop app, you can no longer tell which songs in a playlist are liked without another few steps: tapping the “add to playlist” option to see whether they’re in Liked Songs (3 steps on mobile!) or clicking on the song menu icons (desktop), since all the non-liked songs are also checkmarked on both platforms (confusing enough?).  Obviously, this backwards process is completely ridiculous and nonsensical b/c it requires extra convoluted steps (rather than 0 steps before) to simply view an icon which you’d normally be able to see next to every song.  So now, rather than being able to see in a few seconds which songs out of potentially hundreds (or thousands) in a playlist are liked, you have to click on each individual song’s menu (desktop) or tap 2-3 other options (mobile), which nobody would even bother doing for this many.  Plus, you can’t remember which ones are liked or not liked if the icons are hidden from plain sight.  The checkmark is also very confusing b/c you can’t tell if it means the song is liked or just added to a playlist, since it represents both.

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.

To make this ideal for all users would be to add a preference to show/hide these 2 separate icons: one for likes, and another for playlists.  Both should be enabled by default, and when disabled would exist in the drop-down menu only.  Both of these are needed for the large majority of users, they often do not overlap, and should appear next to each other by every song in all playlists and albums, and be visible at all times, like the heart icon used to.  Likes should then be removed from the drop-down menu when enabled, since this is redundant.

Also be sure to vote for these ideas below which address the same issue, although they should all be consolidated into the same Idea.  The total vote count for all 5 Ideas is now 4,175!!  In addition to this are 55 pgs of negative feedback in the official announcement.  Talk about blatantly ignoring user requests and preferences.

Bring back the heart button! - The Spotify Community

[Mobile][Browse] Bring back like indicator on album/playlist - The Spotify Community

[Mobile] Change like button back to a heart but keep the + button too - The Spotify Community

RETURN THE LIKE BUTTON - The Spotify Community

And this is the official announcement page for this utter feature catastrophe which states: “The best way to share your feedback is to comment here in this thread.”

The ♡ Heart button is being replaced with a (+) Plus button - The Spotify Community

I highly recommend also voting for this new feature to improve the checkmark icon.  This can still be used in conjunction w/ the heart icon:

Additional Green Checkmark for Same Song on OTHER ... - The Spotify Community

[Whydoineedausername3]

Bring back the heart.  The people have spoken.

[GarrettH]

I posted this exact request, amen.

[jonniecharles]

As many have mentioned this really does not help. You mark songs as "liked" for any number of reasons, but now it has been conflated with other User Interface things it is a nearly useless function. We just want to know if we have liked a song, it is really obvious normal and helpful functionality

[joshmartow]

Made an account just to comment here.

Very frustrated to see that thousands of complaints are being ignored. I've invested countless hours into curating playlists and liking the best songs on each. When the heart button was removed we all lost the ability to quickly find the best songs on each playlist. This was helpful in so many situations. For example, when DJing for a group and you want to pick your best content from a certain playlist.

Please listen to the community and bring this back or provide another way to differentiate liked songs from unliked songs within a playlist.

[Ruoner]

This feature is hugely missing. Its virtually impossible to find which specific songs you prefer to listen to in a playlist, and since the removal of the icon I've noticed I'm using the app less and less. You need to solve this for the next update PLEASE. Hundreds of users can't be wrong on the most upvoted suggestion.

[lynqux]

This also has become an issue of safety for me. You can no longer like songs in Google Maps or Waze, which I believe is due to this update. It is not safe for me to switch to the Spotify app in order to like a song while driving. 

[TAV292]

For God's sake, can't you just fix this? How many months can it possibly take? And if you don't intend to do anything about it, have the decency to tell us that you don't give a flying **bleep** about us. This silence treatment you are giving your dedicated, long time users is appalling.

[ymmv99]

I've said it before and I'll say it again: Spotify hates its paying customers. That's the only explanation why they're making their applications worse and worse with each iteration, that explains why they remove features people depend on for no good reason.

[03-ckyvl_ivh5]

In recent years it seems that Spotify has been colonized by a group of drunk Tiktoker interns. They can't do worse. I imagine the meeting where someone had the brilliant idea of eliminating the mark that marks your favorite songs. Did no one really tell that tremendous genius that it's a stupid idea?

It reminds me of Quark, a graphic design layout program, it was the absolute leader in the market, but it started doing strange things, without taking its users into account, illogical changes, tools that no one asked for, other tools that users demanded were ignored, removal of basic functions, suddenly everything became more difficult and confusing in Quark. Then Adobe Indesign arrived, it was not perfect, but with each update it improved, it did not eliminate the good functions, and so on, the changes it made were logical, and explained, and gave the option of using them or not. User suggestions were attended to, there was no A/B testing, the new functions they launched were tested in Adobe, not in the users' programs. Within a year Quark practically disappeared from the market. Right now it is a residual program for layout.

I know many people who the only thing that keeps them on Spotify, old users, is the enormous laziness of transferring everything to a new music service. or that they are in a family group and it would be difficult to get rid of them.
After trying several programs in the last month (Quboz, Apple music, Tidal,...), the sound improvement alone would make the change worth it.

Right now, the only thing that keeps me stuck on Spotify is that I'm extremely lazy.