Song Addition Button Behavior Enhancement ( '+' Button for Adding to Playlists and Liked Songs)

[jnd3x8m8v96b88iacnpd]

Hi Spotify Community 👋
I wanted to share a small usability observation around the “+” (Add Song) interaction.

Currently, tapping “+” adds a song directly to Liked Songs, and the playlist picker appears only after tapping “+” again. This works well for quick saving, but for users who actively organize playlists, it introduces an extra step.

I did a short user survey (100+ responses) and noticed that many users prefer intentionally adding songs directly to specific playlists (gym, focus, mood, travel), rather than always saving to Liked Songs first.

This isn’t about saying the current design is wrong — it’s about supporting different user intents with minimal friction.

I documented the thinking, user segments, and some low-risk solution options in a short PRD here, in case it’s useful:

https://www.notion.so/PRODUCT-REQUIREMENTS-DOCUMENT-PRD-2de120a4235680c0830eeb3f643884ad?source=copy....

Curious if others here have noticed the same behavior or have similar workflows.

Thanks for reading!

[alex_manidis]

I would love to see an improvement to how song recommendations work within playlists. When Spotify recommends songs based on one of my own playlists, the plus button currently adds those songs only to Liked Songs. It would be much more efficient if the plus button added the recommended songs directly to the playlist they were generated from. This would save a lot of time and reduce frustration since there would be no need to go into Liked Songs afterward and manually add each track to the intended playlist. This small change would make playlist building much faster and more intuitive.

[jnd3x8m8v96b88iacnpd]

That’s a fair point, and I agree it works well for users who want to quickly save recommendations.

However, in many cases, users don’t want all recommended songs added to a playlist by default — they usually want to selectively add only a few tracks. When songs are added automatically, it increases the cleanup effort later and breaks the sense of intentional curation.

This is why I feel adjusting the “+” interaction as outlined earlier could better align with different user intents, while still preserving the fast-save behavior for those who want it.

Thanks for sharing your perspective it helped me think about this from another angle

[alex_manidis]

I was talking in general, not necessarily all songs. We agree essentially  ❤️

[jnd3x8m8v96b88iacnpd]

cool, anyway thank you!!❤️