RETURN THE LIKE BUTTON

[juzh]

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.

[r1tr1t]

Agree completely!!! Spotify devs need a little more "if it ain't broke don't fix it" mentality lol. I was also using the likes to mark if I felt a song actually fit in a particular playlist, occasionally removing all the songs I hadn't liked every few weeks. Now every song has a checkmark if it's in a playlist, but only liked songs get a checkmark in the android "media control bar" (idk what else to call it, the one on the lockscreen). The inconsistency is killing me!! 

[godlegos]

Premium user for almost ten years, here.

I hate this update.  It has ruined the functionality of the app for me, it adds NOTHING, and I'm seriously considering changing services.  The "liked" feature is something I use daily.  Removing the automatically identifiable indication of what songs I've liked in an album or playlist is infuriating enough, but now I can't even click on it and see if I've liked a song without clicking through to the "add to a playlist" and then checking the box and clicking done.  You want me to do that for every song that looks vaguely identifiable whenever I pull up a new playlist?  I pulled up a jazz playlist today and wasn't sure at all of what I'd added to my liked songs, spent 20+ minutes combing through every song to make sure I had it in my liked.  This is goofy.  What did it even DO for you to change it????  Make your app look "streamlined"??? At the expense of user frustration?  At the expense of people like me quitting their 10~ year subscriptions????? Great job, Spotify.  Great job.

[Sherbert1]

Turn the plus button back to a heart. Spotify says that it will make my life easier and that it is a quicker option. However it just makes the overall experience less appealing. Alot of people have a designated Playlist and then put a heart signifying their love for the song. Now that is gone and we can't see our love for it anymore when you scroll to choose a song. For someone who has 100s of thousands of songs its hard to keep track without the hearts. Please bring it back.

[Phoenyx]

Also would really like to be able to see the songs with hearts in the playlist view again!  It was great to skim a playlist and have see how many songs in it I had hearted!

[AsafShaked]

There's also lost functionality:

Like indication and option was removed from song context menu

Like all songs option and indication was removed from album context menu 

[Jose_M]

Updated on 2023-10-19

Hello @juzh!

I marked your idea as a New Suggestion. Thanks for bringing your feedback to the Spotify Community. I'd recommend checking out this article for more info on how the Ideas Exchange is managed.

Have a nice day 🙂

[gr8a]

The plus sign symbol automatically adds songs to your Liked Songs playlist, and that would be at the top anyway. If it's not, you can Pin it so it's always at the top. 

[CRGeorg]

Please return the like button.

When the algorithm gives me playlists I like listening to the new music and making my mind up whether or not to like it, unfortunately it is now almost impossible to tell from a glance which songs are liked or newer for me and this means I am listening to less be playlists because of the sheer effort in sorting through the music now.

Seeing the green heart used to mean "you've already sorted this song into the appropriate playlists", now I'm having to check almost every song to make sure it's saved or not and I hate it.

At the very least make an option to turn an indicator for if a song has been liked on or off without having to go through all the extra steps!!!

[melarish]

When did they remove this? I still see it on both desktop and Android. Do I need to stop updating Spotify to keep this feature??? 😮

[CRGeorg]

I updated on Android on 17th Oct and it's version 8.8.80.599