Liking songs in Apple CarPlay

[mtaffer]

I have Spotify Premium and I have maybe an interesting problem. I am trying to get acquainted with a bunch of new artists discographies for a festival I am attending soon. I have created a playlist for all the artists and have them all shuffled for variety. I want to cover the discographies as much as possible, so I don’t want to repeat songs. All of the songs appear as the green check mark when playing. I want to mark these songs as having been already played if they come back around in the shuffle rotation. If I hit the check mark it turns into a plus. I was hoping that if that song came back it would still have that plus sign so I could skip it and continue on with new songs I have yet to hear. Is there a way to do that now. The “heart” was my way of knowing in the past. 

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Device

(iPhone 8, Samsung Galaxy 9, Macbook Pro late 2016)

Operating System

(iOS 10, Android Oreo, Windows 10,etc.)

My Question or Issue

[Luan]

Hey, @mtaffer 
Welcome to the Spotify Community, and thanks for reaching out to us!

The green check icon represents that the song is saved in your library as a Liked Song or because you added it to a playlist. If you saved the discographies to your library by adding them to a specific playlist, as you mentioned, the songs should get the green mark, to represent it's already wherever in your library.

As a way to work around it, you can ask someone to create the playlist and share it with you. So you can listen to the songs and mark them as saved to your Liked Songs or your own "played songs" playlist. I know it may not be the ideal, but it's a possibility...

Stay awesome and enjoy the festival! 🎶🔥

If you have further questions or if you need anything else, let me know! I'd love to help!

Regards,
Luan

[mtaffer]

I guess I could just remove them from the playlist at the end of the day and that would ensure hearing nothing but new songs. I knew that was an option but just wondering if there was a different way. I seem to remember that on another playlist a song started playing that had the plus sign and I had already heard it before so I hoped that was how it worked, but I’ll just delete them from now on. Thanks for the response and for trying to help. 🙂

[mtaffer]

Actually after reviewing the playlist, it appears that hitting the check mark is removing the song, which is the desired result on the end. So it’s working😛

[Luan]

Great! I thought you wanted to keep the listened songs somewhere else in the library. So that's why I recommended someone else's playlist. 😅 Anyway, I'm glad to hear you found a solution!

Don't hesitate to shout if there's anything else we can help with. We'll be happy to lend a hand.

Have a great day! 🙂

Luan

P.S. Music makes everything better, doesn’t it? 🎧

[Uckidera]

Since the last "improvement" you cannot check / mark a song again which already is on a list!

Example: You are playing a song from your playlist "Songs" and you want to mark it to go to your "favorite songs"-list, too.

It is not possible because it is already checked. See picture enclosed (blue circle).

This worked before the change, no comment on this ...

Idea: Bring it back!!!