Wrong songs deleted from the Like Songs playlist

[Pierreboro]

Plan

Premium

Country

Device

(PC)

Operating System

(Windows 10,etc.)

My Question or Issue

I had been annoyed for quite some time with the fact that my Liked Songs playlist was replete with songs from whole albums, as opposed to just "handpicked" songs I individually clicked as "liked" (usually picked from the related songs that Spotify plays following an song or album I played). I'm not sure how this came about, as most of the whole albums in question I don't care much for, and probably only selected a song I like for inclusion in Liked Songs (and not the whole album).

In any case, about two days ago, I decided to delete a bunch of those whole albums from the Liked Songs playlist from the laptop application on Windows 10. I noticed at the time it seemed to take some time before the albums got deleted from the playlist (if at all), and few times I tried deleting a whole album that I just tried deleting a few minutes prior but that still appeared.

Only today did I realize that a huge number of actual individual liked songs (the ones I wanted to keep in the playlist) got deleted, and actually everything since 2019-05-17, the date of the last added songs now still in the Liked Songs playlist. It's as if the application got it all wrong (and me trying to delete certain albums more than once probably didn't help). In any case, even with that double deletion problem, I find it a bit baffling that every single song since May 17 are now gone.

It sucks to think that I've now lost track of that the all great tunes I discovered since May, just because I wanted to get rid of full albums that shouldn't have been in Liked Songs in the first place. I know it's a bit of a long shot, but would the Spotify technical team be able to restore my Liked Song playlist as it was, say, on October 27, 2019?

[appers]

I've noticed the same thing, and I believe this is caused by an error when selecting more than ~100 tracks at once, which for some reason just cancels the selection and picks ~100 songs at the top of the playlist instead. I was doing the same as you, hand-selecting my Liked tracks, and ended up losing everything I'd chosen beginning with A and B due to this! If you were sorting your Liked tracks by date added, this would have the effect of deleting everything before a certain date instead.

I know Spotify have already acknowledged that they messed up their selection tool on the latest update (you can't ctrl-a and select a whole playlist any more either, it'll only select the first ~100 tracks and pretend the rest isn't there). Super frustrating and makes the program pretty hard to use.

[Pierreboro]

You seem to have pinpointed the exact issue. Indeed, my songs are arranged by the date they were added. So instead of the albums selected being deleted, it was individual songs from the most recent added. What's worse is that those unwanted albums were all or most added a while ago. I don't think many of them got deleted in the process. Yikes!