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I don't care if this has been submitted a hundred times over, you Spotify devs clearly need to hear it. You should *not* have to go through the effort of finding the "liked songs" playlist, just to add a song to Liked, when you have a ton of playlists. Playlists don't even sort like they used to, it seems almost random which playlists show first despite which ones I interacted with last - but that's not the issue here; it's just yet another downside of the problem at hand.

 

Please. Please. Please.

Bring back the **bleep** 'liked'/heart button on songs and albums. Having to add liked songs to my liked playlist manually just leads to me adding it to different playlists because it's so **bleep** tedious in the first place. I've been adding songs to playlists and then using the PC version to mass-add songs to Liked because you make it so inconvenient on mobile. This isn't user-friendly in the slightest.

 

Just, why? Why can't you just bring back the little heart? I thought the point of liked songs was to add songs then and there; not to have to stop in the street to add a song to a playlist because it now takes several seconds to do so. I've been paying for Premium since 2009, and now I'm wondering if you're worth the effort. Fire whoever told you it was a good idea to remove the Liked button, seriously. Fire yourselves for listening, too.

Updated on 2023-11-03

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tamachat
agravlisav

voted & chipped! 🤝

Massifsam

It's my first time here. I've never ventured onto the Spotify Community site before, there's never been anything I felt strongly enough about. But I'm so fed up of the heart change messing up how I happily used Spotify for ~15 years that I needed to know if others felt the same.
Clicking on an album and seeing green ticks next to every song is pointless; I know they're on a playlist, I put them there, I just want to see which songs I really liked above the rest at a glance. The ticks tell me nothing anymore, they might as well not be there at all.
Sure I can click on the tick and see if it's on Liked but why add a click-through for an indicator?

the_observer

I've started my 1 month trial with apple music today. So far it has exactly what I need. The star does what the heart on Spotify did. It's basically like Spotify before Spotify kept changing things up. 

 

I haven't used Spotify for playlisting in months and months, and that was my main use of it. They've truly rendered it useless to me. And they don't give a 💩.

 

Vote with your feet, vote with your wallet. I'm done with it. 

Lanciano007

Yes it's frustrating and unlogical we can't SEE which songs we liked, anymore...We can like, but don't get to SEE the like..

 

For me almost everything is made messy and annoying that substituted the like HEART.

 

My suggestion: Why not put both options behind the songs..The HEART and the green dot.

 

What's the point of taking away a heart and getting a green tick behind the song we play???

Where are the Three dots for behind the Green Dot? Spotify puts exactly the same thing double and no option to have an overview of liked songs in our playlists anymore? This is weird!

 

It's like taking away the tires from our cars and substitute them with bricks. First you give cars with tires. It works and people get used to them. Suddenly people just have to get used to the cars with bricks...?

 

Now the green dot shows me that the song is already in one of my Playlists, but when I scroll over the green dot it asks me to "Add it to a Playlist"? It's already in my playlist that's why the green dot is there, right?

I use the desktop app on my laptop more than the app on my phone and it's frustrating that everywhere we now scroll with our cursor in our playlists a stalking green check mark appears following the cursor... terribly jittery and worthless.


On artist playlists, we now see a green check mark if the song is already in a playlist we created. It doesn't say which playlist and it could already be in multiple playlists... But when we're in our own playlist, songs don't have a check mark if the song is already in another list. In my offered "Mix Playlists" and my "Top tracks this Month"(only visible to you) most of the songs have a green dot. But some don't have the green dot, but they all exist and are saved in my own playlists....Why Why Why?? Why some don't have the green dot..? Why the green dot ones show that I can add them to a Playlist, and the ones that don't have I can only like them to add them to my 'liked' playlist???? It's terrible confusing and doesn't make sense.. What is the positive development of this change?

We now have to check all the time which playlist we are in and what the check mark means in this specific playlist. Everything is made unclear and messy with the worthless and annoying green check marks, but more without SEEING the hearts..

 

Why make it harder to like a song. I don't like taking 2 steps to like a song. Another reason for me to not like songs anymore... Why not explain radical changes, Spotify? What is the reason for taking away the hearts? Does it have to do with algorithms, or do we like too many songs...are customers/clients/users/musiclovers (with a heart) too busy creating good and fun playlists? What was wrong with the Like Heart?


The first month I thought it was a bug. Now we know it's an incredibly strange change...

Now it's possible to like a song without knowing that it has already been liked and may have been liked many times now... We can't SEE it! Now with many songs I thought I already liked, I like them again just to be sure... and I hope I will SEE the like (heart) again...

 

I never use the Liked List to listen to songs. I just think it's a useful way to quickly create a playlist for people who don't have a playlist or take the time to listen to one, and probably use the skip button more than once. Even in their beloved playlist. So what's the point of a playlist if you're skipping songs and scrolling? Especially now that there are no more likes behind the songs. I make my own playlists and SEEING a song I like points to a better song. Now every playlist looks boring... without SEEING the songs you love. Also more difficult to sort. Nothing attracts me and stops me to listen somewhere in the middle of the playlists anymore, because I don't SEE that there are some liked songs in that section...

 

Before this change, I was working on my playlists on Spotify every day. Since this weird change I found myself staring, crying and screaming at my Spotify app and only listening to my playlists 3 times since then...

 

Creating playlists without 'liked' favorite songs (HEART) is worthless. Listening to disorganized playlists also sucks.

 

This change even broke the Discography sections of all my songs saved to my 'Your Library' when directed from there to the Discographies section of the artists on the Spotify Desktop app. Many users have the same issue.

 

It's taking too long... I think it's a policy to discourage us..

thesickbeats

Honestly I'm this 🤏 close to switching to Apple Music. It's just a more solid platform overall (as expected considering it's apple). The only thing that attracted me to Spotify in the first place is the friend activity social aspect. Which Apple Music does offer, but it's just that less people use it.

 

But lately I feel like Spotify has had way too many problems including small things like this. It's all the small things that add up making the whole experience annoying. Plus they don't even offer higher quality streaming yet which is just a laugh bro 🤣

Emerald_Pilots

This is a massive, massive slap in the face for anyone who is really into their music listening. I, along with I'd assume millions of others, have the same albums and songs in multiple playlists so the green tick is utterly useless. Yes I know this song is in playlists. I need to know whether I hearted it or not. Now I have to click on EACH INDIVIDUAL SONG in an album/playlist to see if I hearted it. It's absolutely bananas. Fine, leave the green tick thing now it's there but just bring back the separate heart button, this is such a fail it's unbelievable 

cainamaturo

This is awful, please revert to the heart ONLY for liked songs. Sometimes I add a bunch of songs to a playlists and then "heart" the ones I like the most while listening. The problem is, now the checkmark doesn't discriminate between songs that are in regular playlists and those in the "liked songs" playlist. Now whenever I want to like a song I have to click the checkmark and check if the song is already in liked songs, though this useless popup menu that appears.

 

Why does Spotify break features that have been working great for years? Why do you hate your customers?

iknowitrk

Bring it back!!  I've used some form of playlist generated on what I've liked since before Spotify existed.  Don't take it away from me now!

Baldey

don't worry, spotify will just ignore your feedback, like they've done for years on
https://community.spotify.com/t5/Live-Ideas/Make-quot-Liked-Songs-quot-playlist-shareable/idi-p/4872...

They obviously don't care about their users.. The only playlist that i use has the least functionality.