How to remove liked songs when 'unsaving' an album

[grumpytiger]

Plan

Premium

Country

Brazil

Device

Lenovo Vibe K6

Operating System

Android 7.0 Nougat

My Question or Issue

Hello, there.

I'd like to know if there's some way to remove all the liked songs from an album you 'unsave'.

Just recently I read about that update that separated the songs you liked from the albums you saved. Although I completely disliked it, since it didn't even allowed those who disliked the change to fall back to the old way, it's not the issue here.

My problem is that a few moments ago I found out that some of my favorite saved albums (around 14 albuns, with almost 100 songs each) which had the music named in Japanese got their version with the songs named in English (just the songs names, everything else is the same), so I swapped the albuns, unsaving the Japanese ones and saving the English ones.

Very cool and nice, except for the fact that the 'liked songs' list is still filled with the songs from the removed algums (which were saved before this dreaded 'liked songs and saved albums' update) and, of course, none of the newly saved albums songs are in the liked list. I know the later is the new feature and there's nothing I can do about it, but is there at least a way for me to easily remove these thousands of songs which I wish had been gone after unliking the album? Or at least a bulk remove from the liked list? I really just wanted to hit all random, like I've always done, and know which song is it, since I can't read Japanese.

Sorry if there's a soluton for this somewhere here, but I reaaly read through this forum bfore posting this and I haven't found anything to help me with this issue.

Thanks in advance.

[viriava]

1. Deskstop: shift+select  songs

2. Remove

[Mihail]

Hey folks,

Thanks for sharing your thoughts with the Community!

Since the new Your Library was introduced, liking an album won't add the songs in the album your Liked Songs playlist. To do so, click the “…” menu in the album view and click “Like all songs”. From there you can also remove them. You can find out more tips and tricks on how to navigate Your Library here. 

Another way to do so is to sort your Liked by albums on a desktop device and then shift/ ctrl select the titles you want. You can then remove them via the menu when right clicking, as in the screenshot by @viriava.

Hope this helps. Keep us posted on how it goes.  

[hedges333]

The whole point is that downloading an album doesn't add the songs to the
"liked songs" playlist. There needs to be an "all downloaded songs"
playlist like there was in the past. That way when I'm in the car I can
put it on shuffle play with all the songs that I have downloaded. I don't
want to accidentally play songs that I liked but haven't downloaded and eat
into my monthly bandwidth.

The other point is this: Say I "like all songs" from an album I
downloaded, so they go into the Liked playlist and I can put my whole
library on shuffle play in the car. If I un-download an album, the songs
do not actually go away because they are still on the Liked playlist. I
have to perform a second function when I actually only care about one --
whether I downloaded the song or not.

Spotify uses "liked" songs to determine its algorithms of what other songs,
albums and artists to suggest to me. But that's entirely self-serving.
The only thing I care about is whether I downloaded the album or not. I'm
not going to like an album that I don't download, because I have limited
bandwidth. You make your customers jump through this "like" hoop purely
for marketing reasons, not for the benefit of their own user experience.

You could just as easily determine what to suggest by analyzing their
listening habits. Did I listen to a suggested album, but then skip ahead
songs to see if I liked them, and then stopped listening? That must mean I
didn't like the album and/or the artist. Did I listen to the album all the
way through? That must mean I like it. You don't need us to click your
stupid buttons for you.