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Hey there folks,
Our design team has started exploring new ways to add items to "Your Library". This is why we'd love to hear your feedback on the new implementations, because those changes are done with the goal to better your experience on our platform.
The design may differ in either having a heart symbol or a plus sign with other subtle differences.
If you're part of this undertaking, post your constructive feedback in this thread and the relevant team will review it.
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Please keep in mind that different people use the app in fundamentally different ways, because there are gaps in functionality (e.g. listen later playlists, like vs love, 'heard this before' markers). I've had to design my own systems within the constraints of the app, and I would be devastated if these changes were rolled out to me and destroyed how I've curated and managed my music for almost a decade, because of how you think people should have been using Spotify. I appreciate the outreach via this post though.
Hello!
Thanks for facilitating this. It appears that I see some of these changes as well. Adding content to "your library" really is one of the most fundamental experiences as a Spotify user. There's nothing like discovering a new song or artist, and that discovery process is what makes Spotify different from all other listening/streaming tools. My library has become a massive and connected smoothie of content.
I have two different ways I add content to my library.
These are the new changes I have noticed:
It appears that this new format de-emphasizes the like/heart experience which was one of the most rewarding micro-experiences in the product. There's even a fantastic article from Spotify Design on the creation of the heart button. These previous micro-interactions make users feel positive and happy; the new format lacks this. Besides this, the only other thing that is missing from the new format is an identifier of your library when you're browsing music.
If the team added back that heart/plus indicator in a list view AND created a new party-like micro-interaction for adding content to playlists, this could end up being a very helpful and efficient update.
Give back the heart button to add to liked songs!
It **bleep**ing sucks. How's that for some feedback? It wasn't broken, why did you try to "fix" it? Spotify had the best user interface, which is why I use it, and now you broke it. Don't make it rocket science to just "like" a song. I want the heart icon back.
I've been a premium subscriber for 10 years. This "update" is the worst thing ever. I am astounded at how annoying this is. I'm a DJ and I use Spotify constantly to find and organize new music. The heart icon made all kinds of sense. I know it sounds crazy, but Spotify just became a lot less user friendly for my work flow. I'm going to revisit Apple Music tonight. As someone who is completely immersed in the Apple ecosystem, I've WANTED to like Apple Music for years, but your User Interface has always been superior. It's not anymore.
I would like the ability to add albums to playlists back again. Also the ability to like all songs on an album and see the songs that I’ve liked. These are poorly thought out changes. Why take away functionality?
This is a terrible decision and basically destroyed the entire user experience. Even when I click the "+" icon, check "liked songs" and press "done", it doesn't add the song to my liked songs. Now I have to go into liked songs and click "add songs" in order to add any song to the list. How was this update even approved? Whoever thought of shipping this update to non-beta regular users should be fired. The app is basically unusable at this point.
GET RID OF IT!!!!! IT DOES NOT ADD THE SONGS TO THE LIKED PLAYLIST THEY NEVER GET ADDED REMOVE THIS!!!!!! WHEN IM DRIVING ITS A NIGHTMARE AND A DANGER
When are you fixing these clearly unwanted changes, its already been too long? This is the first time in 13 years paying premium I have ever considered leaving BRING BACK;
FIX IT PLEASE! Or at the very least reply to let us know that you are at least acknowledging everyone's concerns. Poor customer service.
On the same location on screen, replacing with a new icon that does the opposite thing is not the best design practice. Imagine I finally find a song I have been looking for for a long time, and instead of liking it and keeping it to listen tto later, I just have just hid it and will not see it again! Imagine how frustrating that is!
I do not like the plus sign and would much rather that my interface changed back to the heart ‘like’ symbol. I find the plus ‘add to library’ system a lot clunkier and annoying to use.
Can’t add full albums to a playlist. Not exactly user friendly and a terrible decision
Totally not a fan of the heart button being taken away as others below have said previously. Do not like that it has added an additional step in the process instead of just clicking the heart and going immediately to my likes songs.
Please bring back the like button! The like button is so much faster to actually add it to my liked playlist. If you incorporate this new add button, please make it optional. I hate it, which is upsetting because I prefer Spotify over any other streaming service, but now with this tediousness of having more steps to like a song, it’s bumming me out.
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0/10, Bring the like button back, I understand wanting a shortcut to add to another playlist, but how about creating a SEPARATE button for that instead of taking away what we like about liking music!!!
Please Bring back the heart button , its easier and faster to like songs rather than having the whole thing popping up
Same as everyone in this thread, I miss the heart button dearly. This was a great way to store the songs I liked for later in a common place (I have ~7k liked songs at this point and often listen to my liked song playlist in shuffle mode to rediscover old stuff). The new process is unintuitive since it now requires two clicks to save these songs. Moreover, there is no way to know if I liked songs in another playlist anymore. This was a great way to know which songs I previously liked in my discover weekly for example (I religiously listen to my discover weekly every week. I even have an IFTTT set up to save my discover weekly in a discover weekly history playlist)
I got this update and is horrible, I prefer 100% times the like button, is easier and faster to add songs to the playlist in that way, also is better because you just add to the liked songs and that’s everything, please bring back just the like button.
I really liked the heart (double tap feature) that sends the song directly to my favorites, I’m disappointed that it was removed honestly…
Please Please Please bring the like button back. I can see this being useful for people who constantly utilize playlists but for the people who don’t and just use their liked songs this is so inconvenient. I’m one of the people that doesn’t use playlists and uses just my liked songs. At the bare minimum if you can’t bring the likes back show us which songs are in our liked songs list. I listen to a lot of artists and it’s hard going through the albums and not being able to see what I actually liked. But I think everyone likes it better with the like button, and can guarantee 99% of people did not ask for this.
Sure, I have feedback. This change is pure garbage. Bring back the heart icon and never, ever do anything like this again. Quit trying to fix what's not broken.
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