Bring back the heart button!

[Urticlaire]

It's SUPER frustrating, we can't see which songs we liked in our own playlists, Bring back the heart button PLEASE, the new way doesn't work AT ALL

[Lanciano007]

Yes it's frustrating and unlogical we can't SEE which songs we liked, anymore...We can like, but don't get to SEE the like..

For me almost everything is made messy and annoying that substituted the like HEART.

My suggestion: Why not put both options behind the songs..The HEART and the green dot/spot.

What's the point of taking away a heart and getting a green tick behind the song we play???

Where are the Three dots for behind the Green Dot? Spotify puts exactly the same thing double and no option to have an overview of liked songs in our playlists anymore? This is weird!

It's like taking away the tires from our cars and substitute them with bricks. First you give cars with tires. It works and people get used to them. Suddenly people just have to get used to the cars with bricks...?

Now the green dot shows me that the song is already in one of my Playlists, but when I scroll over the green dot it asks me to "Add it to a Playlist"? It's already in my playlist that's why the green dot is there, right?

I use the desktop app on my laptop more than the app on my phone and it's frustrating that everywhere we now scroll with our cursor in our playlists a stalking green check mark appears following the cursor... terribly jittery and worthless.

On artist playlists, we now see a green check mark if the song is already in a playlist we created. It doesn't say which playlist and it could already be in multiple playlists... But when we're in our own playlist, songs don't have a check mark if the song is already in another list. In my offered "Mix Playlists" and my "Top tracks this Month"(only visible to you) most of the songs have a green dot. But some don't have the green dot, but they all exist and are saved in my own playlists....Why Why Why?? Why some don't have the green dot..? Why the green dot ones show that I can add them to a Playlist, and the ones that don't have I can only like them to add them to my 'liked' playlist???? It's terrible confusing and doesn't make sense.. What is the positive development of this change?

We now have to check all the time which playlist we are in and what the check mark means in this specific playlist. Everything is made unclear and messy with the worthless and annoying green check marks, but more without SEEING the hearts..

Why make it harder to like a song. I don't like taking 2 steps to like a song. Another reason for me to not like songs anymore... Why not explain radical changes, Spotify? What is the reason for taking away the hearts? Does it have to do with algorithms, or do we like too many songs...are customers/clients/users/musiclovers (with a heart) too busy creating good and fun playlists? What was wrong with the Like Heart?

The first month I thought it was a bug. Now we know it's an incredibly strange change...

Now it's possible to like a song without knowing that it has already been liked and may have been liked many times now... We can't SEE it! Now with many songs I thought I already liked, I like them again just to be sure... and I hope I will SEE the like (heart) again...

I never use the Liked Song List to listen to songs. I just think it's a useful way to quickly create a playlist for people who don't have an own playlist or take the time to listen to one, and probably use the skip button more than once. Even in their beloved Liked Songs Playlist. So what's the point of a playlist if you're skipping songs and scrolling? Especially now that there are no more likes behind the songs. I make my own playlists and SEEING a song I like points to a better song. Now every playlist looks boring... without SEEING the songs you love. Also more difficult to sort. Nothing attracts me and stops me to listen somewhere in the middle of the playlists anymore, because I don't SEE that there are some liked songs in that section...

Before this change, I was working on my playlists on Spotify every day. Since this weird change I found myself staring, crying and screaming at my Spotify app and been only listening to my playlists 3 times since then...

Creating playlists without 'liked' favorite songs (HEART) is worthless. Listening to disorganized playlists also sucks.

It's taking too long... I think it's a policy to discourage us..

This change even broke the Discography sections of all my songs saved to my 'Your Library' when directed from there to the Discographies section of the artists on the Spotify Desktop app. Many users have the same issue...I think all users, but only some are noticing this...(UPDATE: there was a thread about this issue and Spotify fixed the bug three months later... )

[Kidinnu]

Yup, I need this.

[BRC-Lounge]

This is crazy, Spotify. I'm a big fan of Spotify. But this ruins it. I have several lists and I must be able to sort my playlists at a glance. Now, in order to review songs that I have marked for removal during play I now must check each and every song to see if I removed the heart?!? Check EVERY song?!? I literally have thousands of songs over about 15 overlapping public playlists. Now I am unable to edit these lists and sort out songs. You have effectively eliminated the one tool I had to do this. I am now looking for a new service because I can't edit anymore. Have heart and BRING BACK THE HEART.

[Typhlosion24]

Yeah I found it useful see at a glance which songs in an album were my favorite because they had the heart icon. Now they all show the "checkmark" even if they are not "liked" as long as they are in a playlist. I liked being able to reserve the heart icon for the songs I really liked. I added them to a playlist without liking them when I liked them less.

[sblocks94]

Their UX team needs to be fired. It's ridiculous whoever signed off on this

[Lanciano007]

UPDATE newest about this same issue (965votes): 

https://community.spotify.com/t5/Live-Ideas/Bring-back-the-heart-button/idi-p/6021286

I found this same topic already (vote there..has 2521 votes already). 

https://community.spotify.com/t5/Live-Ideas/Bring-back-the-heart-button/idi-p/5709907/page/15#commen...

Here is another one (already 463 votes):

https://community.spotify.com/t5/Live-Ideas/New-quot-likes-quot-system-is-a-mess/idi-p/5818991#comme...

(782 votes)

https://community.spotify.com/t5/Live-Ideas/RETURN-THE-LIKE-BUTTON/idi-p/5654309

Here's one again (573 votes already):

https://community.spotify.com/t5/Live-Ideas/Mobile-Change-like-button-back-to-a-heart-but-keep-the-b...

This one is from 2023 (should have gotten the Bonus status with 500+ votes..has 823 votes now...but just got opposite result from Spotify. They took the hearts away): 

https://community.spotify.com/t5/Live-Ideas/Mobile-Browse-Bring-back-like-indicator-on-album-playlis...

In this case it seems their own guidelines are (also) worthless and has no importancy for Spotify. For a long time already, the above thread/Idea with 1400+ votes should have got the status: Live Idea. But it got stuck at: Good Idea.

Why? I can only think, Spotify is doing this (taking the HEART and soul away) because of the last reason mentioned underneath...

•        Our overall short- and long-term business strategy.

Read it yourself. I found this information very interesting:

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"The Community team talks with various other Spotify teams several times a month about ideas that have gathered enough votes. It’s from these meetings that we apply one of the following statuses to each idea: 

This is part of a series of articles outlining how the Idea Exchange works:

1. Idea Exchange Guidelines: What do I need to know before submitting?
2. Idea Exchange Guidelines: How can I submit an idea? What happens next?
3. Idea Exchange Guidelines: Why was my idea closed? 
4. Idea Exchange Guidelines: How does my feedback reach Spotify? 

The Idea Exchange is one of the most active areas of the Community.

Many of you have questions about how the Ideas Exchange works, such as:

• Do ideas matter?
• How is an idea communicated to Spotify HQ?
• How do votes impact the outcome of an idea?
• How do you decide what to implement or close?

We're here to help try and clear some of these questions up.

The Community team talks with various other Spotify teams several times a month about ideas that have gathered enough votes. It’s from these meetings that we apply one of the following statuses to each idea: 

Good Suggestion

Your idea has reached the first threshold - it has more than 50 +Votes in under 3 months. 

Live Idea 

Ideas that have gathered 180 +Votes in under 6 months get this status and they are brought to the attention of the Spotify team.

Bonus: We’ll also be looking at ideas that might have been closed initially due to not enough votes but eventually have reached 500 +Votes in under 18 months.

Under Consideration

This feature is coming. We have a rough timeline for a release.

After this stage there are usually 2 possible outcomes:

Implemented

This feature has rolled out. Yay!

Case Closed

We talked about this internally but it’s not on our timeline right now. That doesn't mean it never will be. 

Of course, votes are not the only deciding factors of what Spotify is going to do or not do next. We also have to consider the following:

•        Helping artists.
•        Data and other information we've collected.
•        Information from research testing, focus groups, and surveys.
•        Feedback in the Community and other support channels.
•        Our overall short- and long-term business strategy.

Further, if we build something that didn't originate from the community, we'll take the time to announce it if a corresponding idea exists in the community. Even if it hasn't necessarily reached enough votes.

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Almost nobody is happy or positive about this 'heart' change idea...read the comments on the Community Blog and look which comments are liked and how many likes they get...

https://community.spotify.com/t5/Community-Blog/The-Heart-button-is-being-replaced-with-a-Plus-butto...

This one is from 2022 (maybe a test-puppet/beta version?:

https://community.spotify.com/t5/App-Features/Like-Button-Removal/td-p/5447280

50+ votes:

https://community.spotify.com/t5/Live-Ideas/LIKE-BUTTON/idi-p/5819172

Case closed?:

https://community.spotify.com/t5/App-Features/The-like-buttons-gone/m-p/5499449

......Case closed (1000+ negative comments and dislikes):

https://community.spotify.com/t5/Your-Library/Changing-the-heart-button-to-a-plus/m-p/5495254

When I read all these threads, I only see negative and/or dissapointed comments about taking the hearts away, with lots of (support) likes. The few positive comments about this change don't get any (support) likes...

I also read about a lot of other music platforms I never heard of before and about tools that easily transfer your Spotify playlists to other MUSIC platforms. 

2024 seems to be a good year for competition (especially for desktop users) with good try-out user experience free trials and discounts...

EXTRA users experiences UPDATE: 

https://community.spotify.com/t5/Live-Ideas/Repurposing-the-new-Liked-Songs-Add-to-playlist-system-t...

https://community.spotify.com/t5/Live-Ideas/Bring-back-the-liked-tracks-logo-in-playlists/idi-p/5807...

https://community.spotify.com/t5/Live-Ideas/Make-it-possible-to-quot-one-click-quot-like-save-tracks...

https://community.spotify.com/t5/Live-Ideas/Add-buttons-in-all-personalized-playlists-made-by-spotif...

https://community.spotify.com/t5/Live-Ideas/Fix-the-Likes/idi-p/5819062

https://community.spotify.com/t5/Your-Library/im-so-sorry-i-hate-the-new-liked-songs-button-so-bad/m...

[Lanciano007]

@Sblocks94. I believe their UX team was already fired before, or they left ... 

Are they going to make their own Spotify song productions now (Spotify Sessions the Originals..Bye bye classics...) like Netflix?

In the beginning, Netflix became huge, with a nice amount of movies and a classic database...Prices went up...And today we have more DVDs on our shelves than Netflix has movies in their database...Netflix even admits that this is why we can't see and scroll through their entire database...Because we'll notice that they only have a small selection to offer these days...The reason why you get the 10 movies THEY suggest you'll like, and that you can't watch the movies YOU were trying to look for in the first place...

Almost everyone I know has stopped using Netflix or is thinking about it... Way too expensive for what they offer now! Own work and a periodic rotating system of 100 movies or less, and some series.

Hope Spotify is not going the same way...