RETURN THE LIKE BUTTON

[juzh]

I don't care if this has been submitted a hundred times over, you Spotify devs clearly need to hear it. You should *not* have to go through the effort of finding the "liked songs" playlist, just to add a song to Liked, when you have a ton of playlists. Playlists don't even sort like they used to, it seems almost random which playlists show first despite which ones I interacted with last - but that's not the issue here; it's just yet another downside of the problem at hand.

Please. Please. Please.

Bring back the **bleep** 'liked'/heart button on songs and albums. Having to add liked songs to my liked playlist manually just leads to me adding it to different playlists because it's so **bleep** tedious in the first place. I've been adding songs to playlists and then using the PC version to mass-add songs to Liked because you make it so inconvenient on mobile. This isn't user-friendly in the slightest.

Just, why? Why can't you just bring back the little heart? I thought the point of liked songs was to add songs then and there; not to have to stop in the street to add a song to a playlist because it now takes several seconds to do so. I've been paying for Premium since 2009, and now I'm wondering if you're worth the effort. Fire whoever told you it was a good idea to remove the Liked button, seriously. Fire yourselves for listening, too.

[Marlenef]

Plan

Premium

Country

UK

Device

iPhone 11

Operating System

iOS 16

My Question or Issue

I hate the new playlist update with the missing « Like Button ». It was useful having all of my liked songs in one place. Now there’s lots of friction to add a song you like to my liked playlist. 
Plus, when I click on my Liked Songs Playlist it now plays songs that are not on my list. It goes for songs that are in another playlist despite not having the « enhanced » button on. It is seriously annoying. When I click on my Liked Songs I want to only hear songs that are saved into playlist.

It is ruining experience with spotify and my organisational system. I’m serious considering cancelling my subscription. 😔

[qualityguy53]

I agree that the deleted LIKE button is a disaster.  This is a major downgrade!!

[Marlenef]

Agreed. My playlist issues seems to be solved but the like button change is really bad 

[r1tr1t]

• Edit #1:

Upon further reflection, it makes the most sense to place the like button where it was, with the original function of toggling liking a song. Plus button should go to the left (mobile client) and allow for quickly adding to playlists (but get the liked songs outta the add to playlist menu!!! Or at least make a setting to hide it in the menu). The ability to add to multiple playlists is nice but usually unnecessary. The default in add to playlist menu should be tap a playlist to add, long press a playlist to select multiple, however there should also be a toggle setting to revert to current setup (always add multiple). Please upvote!!! Spotify desperately needs more flexibility in the settings and some UI changes, this seems to be the best way to let devs know!!

Edit #2:

Thank you all so much for the support and feedback, only a few votes left to hit the 180 goal!! Special shoutout to whoever made their username on here "BRING_BACK_HEART" lol. As many of the comments mentioned, the heart was a critical part of my listening experience, especially when listening to albums or other user's playlists. Thanks for all the personal feedback and votes, hopefully we'll meet again in green heart land 🙂

Also, attached is a shotty markup of how the mobile client would ideally look (filled heart denoting liked song, checkmark denoting song in at least one playlist).

[Luan]

Updated on 2023-10-10

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[AsafShaked]

Are you trying to dehumanize the app ?

What's better than the heart ❤️ icon to symbol liked music 🎶 ?

There's also important lost functionality, practically a bug in design:

It's no longer possible to Like or check Like status, for a song currently not being played, clicking the three-dots context menu !

Like is far more basic than adding a song to playlist, which could be found in song context menu anyway

Thank you so much 🙏

[Jose_M]

Updated on 2023-10-10

Hello @AsafShaked!

I marked your idea as a New Suggestion. Thanks for bringing your feedback to the Spotify Community. I'd recommend checking out this article for more info on how the Ideas Exchange is managed.

Have a nice day 🙂

[funk500]

Please bring back the heart! If I want to like a song, I now have to do three clicks instead of one! (Plus-Button -> Liked Songs -> Done).

This is especially awkward, when I just want to give a quick Like when in the Lock Screen of my phone or on Android Auto.

The Plus Button makes things less intuitive and takes more effort to use!

[hannfox]

I also miss being able to quickly see which songs I have liked and which ones I have not. Now, if I'm in my daily mix playlist, there's no easy way to tell if I've liked something or not and it's driving me crazy. I don't want to have to press a bunch of buttons to get that info. Please please please fix this

[RebeccaShepperd]

I have 2 points to make about this. First is accessibility. My mother is very bad with technology. For her it was easy to just look up a song and click the heart to like it to add it to her liked songs to listen again. Now she gets confused and frustrated. Also, I like to go into playlists and be able to visibly see the hearts next to songs to see what I have already listened to and what I haven't. It's often the way I find new music in other playlists. Without the heart beside songs I can't be sure if something is new or not without clicking on it, which is just annoying to me.